Children and Trauma: Equipping Parents and Caregivers
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Children can experience trauma from a variety of experiences, including neglect, physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, death of a loved one, bullying, racial trauma, and more. Trauma occurs when children are exposed to an experience perceived as threatening or harmful and respond with intense fear that affects them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Authors Justin and Lindsey Holcomb help parents and caregivers recognize the signs of trauma and guide them in stepping into children's lives and demonstrating Jesus's care and protection for them. The compassionate and helpful response of parents or caregivers can help children who have experienced trauma to access spiritual, emotional, and physical healing.
Helping children feel connected and loved, giving them opportunities to express what they're feeling, providing any necessary professional care, and being patient with behavioral outbursts will all go a long way toward helping children heal. Knowing that God sees, cares for, and understands their suffering will help a traumatized child move forward in their healing. Reminding them that one day all pain and suffering will cease can help turn their minds away from anxiety about future trauma and toward promised future peace and joy.
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- Title: Children and Trauma: Equipping Parents and Caregivers
- Authors: Justin S. Holcomb, Lindsey A. Holcomb
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 24
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Parent and child › Religious aspects--Christianity; Psychic trauma in children › Religious aspects--Christianity; Caregivers › Religious life
- Resource ID: LLS:CHILDRENTRAUMA
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-08T22:21:34Z