This article is about how to help children deal with post-traumatic stress. Children can be dealing with stress due to dramatic events that happened such as a car accident, fire, a divorce. Unlike adults children deal with stress differently sometimes they cannot verbally tell us what is going on so we need to be watching for signs that show that they are dealing with stress. Some of the ways that you can see that a child is dealing with stress is they keep replaying and dramatic events through play, art, talking or just wanting to be alone. Has the child’s behavior changed has the child experienced a fire during the night and is refusing to lay down for fear another fire is going to happen while they are asleep. This article also lists of
