Early Childhood Trauma Case Study

Introduction Influences of trauma can affect the child’s development by imposing on neural cognitive function, attachment, emotional, spiritual development and the list can go on. The first thing that must be understood is what is trauma and what does it look like to a child? Trauma is an event that occurs abruptly and harmful. According to American Psychological Association (2015), “Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster.” Looking at a trauma for a child can look and be different depending on the traumatic event. “A traumatic event is one that threatens injury, death, or the physical integrity of self or others and also causes horror, terror, or helplessness at the time it occurs” (Children and Trauma, 2015).
Brain development and how it affected by Trauma During normal development in early childhood the brain is constantly developing neural pathways in the brain to communicate back and forth to the body. During the middle childhood the brain is still developing …show more content…
Due the lower economic status or current living area maybe in a bad area where there is crime, neglect, abuse and the list can go on and on but help can be found. Each individual is different and will his or her own way on how he or she will react to a traumatic situation but cultural can also affect on how the child reacts to the situation. Depending on the family and community where a child comes from can affect on how trauma can be dealt with and help the child. People from minority or unprivileged groups may not have access to health services or if services that are offer may not agree to their culture background (Child & Trauma, 2015). So it is important that the counselor or mental services to understand the family culture background to be able to adjust properly to their cultural needs to help the child to overcome the