Borderline Childhood Trauma

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Childhood trauma contributes to the development of disorders later in life. Several psychological disorders may be caused by childhood trauma. These disorders may include: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and dissociative identity disorder.

Consider a cycle where a male child witnesses his father physically, verbally, and psychologically abusing his mother. The mother may a PTSD suffer from her abuse, there fore incapable or possibly prevented from providing comfort to her child. The father may abuse the child that would increase the PTSD symptoms. Without treatment for the child's PTSD compounded by what he learned from his parents, it is very likely he will become abusive in his relationships. According to Edleson, "A variety of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive functioning problems among children were found to be associated with exposure to domestic violence." (1999, p. Abstract). Researchers

Nicole Barle, Camille Wortman, and Jessica Latack from Stony Brook university wrote traumatic bereavement basic research and clinical implications. In their article they reviewed basic research on domains of life affected by traumatic loss and the risk factors that survivors are vulnerable to such as traumatic bereavement. In the article it for the describes the comprehensive treatment approach which is three critical components building resources processing trauma in facilitating morning. Traumatic death leaves the host with many troubling issues that are not typically present following a natural death because not only do they have to deal with the death of their loved 1 but also with the destruction of there most basic life assumptions. The

The childhood of an individual can be very crucial in the formation of the child’s character, personality, and future social behavior. The early experiences a child is exposed to may impact the child in a positively or negatively manner. Children exposed to traumatic childhood experiences such as emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; emotion and physical neglect; and household dysfunction such as incarcerated member of the household, domestic violence, and substance abuse; will result in criminal behavior in adolescence and/or adulthood.

Dr. Nadine Burks Harris talks about the Adverse Childhood Experiences study during her lecture. What has been discovered is that those who have suffered from childhood trauma have a greater chance of developing health complications versus those who have not been exposed to trauma. In the Adverse Childhood Experiences study was conducted by Dr. Vince Felitti at Kaiser and Dr. Bob Anda and the CDC, together they asked 17,500 adults about their history of exposure to adverse childhood experiences (Harris). Experiences meaning: sexual, physical, emotional abuse, physical or emotional neglect, parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration, parental separation or divorce. For every yes they answered

Children are naturally predisposed as a minority population as they have significantly less control over their lives due to their age, involuntary group membership (due to age), legal inability to care for themselves, and requirement to have needs and wants met by their parents/guardians. Trauma that occurs during childhood is important to resolve when it occurs because youth are at an optimum vulnerable state during this time period in their early lives. Child Action for Protection refers to the vulnerability of youth in The Vulnerable Child as a child's lack of capacity for self-protection (2010). Children have a tendency and natural naivety to being vulnerable as they do not possess certain life skills that will aid them in proper

Michelle, great post! I agree, although children need the ability to explore and develop their motor skills as well as cognitive skills; they as well need guidance and structure with doing so. There are plenty of ways to give children the freedom and love they need, while doing it in a way that builds their character to be the best kind of person that they can be, with whatever life throws their way.

Treating the many mental health disorders caused by childhood abuse-related trauma has proved to be challenging. Long established therapies, such as trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapies (TF-CBT) has been the typical choice of treatment for most clinicians (Raabe, Ehring, Marquenie, Olff, & Kindt, 2015). TF-CBT is based on the theory that memories linked to traumatic events create negative emotions that later on affect how the individual thinks about the traumatic event and can eventually lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Usually, the treatment for this mental health disorder features flooding, also known as a prolonged exposure (PE) method. This method involves having the patient face the negative emotions of the

Traumatic events are defined as those in which an individual experiences, witnesses, or confronted with actual or threatened death, serious injury, or threatened physical integrity of self or others (DSM-V). Children are exposed to various experiences that can be traumatic for them. Childhood traumatic experiences may stem from experiences that were of a violent nature, physical, psychological or sexual. Children are often witnesses to physical violence in the homes, domestic violence against the parent. They are exposed to gun violence, drugs/substance abuse, and homelessness. Some children live in households where family members are incarcerated, mentally ill or have experienced a tragic loss as a result of death.

The client reported she was involved in a car accident in 2012 where her vehicle spun out of control. She denied she sustained any medical injuries. Stephanie reported she has experienced childhood trauma. Reportedly, when she was 8yoa her 12 year old cousin sexually molested her. She indicated, she informed her aunt, but was told not to say anything else about the incident. She also shared as an adult, her cousin whom molested prepositioned her to have sex with one of his friends. She stated she felt like a prostitute and a "piece of her had died." She further shared, she was raped by a male student, which resulted in a short term physically abusive relationship for four months. She stated she after they dissolved the relationship he admitted

Studying child trauma has become increasingly popular to gain a wider understanding of the issue. It is estimated that around one in three children exposed to trauma do develop PTSD (Fletcher, 2003). Child PTSD has been widely observed in children who witness violent crimes (Schwarz & Kowalski, 1991) or whom have survived severe traumatic events. Children directly or indirectly exposed to war conflict experience a variety of stressors, and many develop both short-term and long-term post-traumatic stress reactions (Barenbaum, Ruchkin & Schwab‐Stone, 2004). Common reactions after a traumatic experience include; fear, numbness, anger, change in sleep and appetite, nightmares, avoidance of certain situations and some also experience feelings of

The following study explores the efficacy of using play therapy with children exposed to childhood trauma to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Childhood trauma can be defined as, “an actual or perceived threat of danger which overwhelms a child’s ability to self regulate emotional reactions and coping abilities” (Jordan, Perryman, Anderson, 2013, p. 219). These symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, aggressiveness, sleeplessness, withdraw, generalized fears, and disturbing thoughts. Prior research suggests that child-centered play therapy significantly decreases symptoms of trauma in contrast to those receiving other traditional therapies. Reasoning for this is that children at a young age do not have

“These kids can be so easily brainwashed.” (Gettleman, 6) Meaning that when children are lured to these camps, kidnapped or think that it is is going to be okay going there , they are forced to join the military, and they are forced to take up a job such as a spy or fire on the front lines, or become a slave. They are taught this with really no choice. Usually the kids have lost something. Such as people that make up most of their life, which causes even more trauma . It is not just that, but they are given drugs and alcohol to erase their minds and even forget who they are. “Using gun powder and cocain, marijuana, brown pills, white pills”, and alcohol. Said Ishmael Beah. All of these things are used to erase any memories and everything they

In the middle childhood, the frontal lobe of the cortex presents an insignificant increase in the surface area, this is around the age of 5 to 7 as a continuation of the myelinization. The corpus callosus gets thicker and leads to expand communication of the two cortical hemisphere. In most children the first spur is about 6 to 8 years old, and second 10 to 12, both involving sensorial and motors areas. During this time, the child can have difficulty to handle some health issues. Head injuries, asthma and obesity. Head injuries in this stage it may be damaging to the development because it can affect the brain. Also with Asthma, it has been probe that the medicine used for the asthma can effect on children’s cognitive development. As it