Student Trauma Research Paper

Whether it's living through a family member’s death, or surviving a plane crash, certain traumas or stressful situations can lead to emotional issues. Studies show that going through trauma at a young age leaves people more prone to obtaining emotional issues. Having untreated emotional issues can leave people forever scarred and can ruin their experiences through life. Emotional Issues can be described as trauma, adversity, or stress that occurred in some bodies lifetime which caused them to be sensitive to certain things or to have triggers. Triggers are specific situations or things that occur that create the memory of your trauma which causes to a outburst or a shutdown. Teaching students with these problems can be tough; however, being …show more content…
Others are because of some kind of stressful trauma that they have gone through. Also, because every student has a different form of emotional issues, they will react to certain lesson plans differently. Curriculum is fixed as a teacher needs to teach whatever the class requires them to. Because of that, some students will be triggered and have an emotional outburst as some lessons especially history have to do with death and other things that are common for emotionally impaired students to be triggered by. Death is an unfortunate thing, but it happens and the world keep spinning. Helping a student move on is important but you need to be patient and too much stress can cause triggers, “While a certain amount of stress is normal, and even helpful, as you face the challenges that come in the aftermath of a disaster or tragic event, too much stress will get in the way of recovery” (Smith, Robinson, Segal). Also, teachers can soften the blows of emotional flashbacks by phrasing or telling the story of death differently. This technique helps the students by using different words that may not trigger their emotional problems. For example, when teaching about a historical figure who died the teacher could say “this man moved on” or “this person went away” implying the fact that they died without actually saying the words. This technique works especially in History or English when teaching about something that happened hundreds of years ago. The students understand already that the people they are talking about are already dead as it is common knowledge that people don't live for hundreds of years. Being cautious about what you're teaching and what you're saying will greatly affect the outcomes of your