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Children with secure attachments to an adult with effective coping strategies were most likely to endure adverse childhood experiences in an adaptive manner. [45] Secure attachments throughout the lifespan (including in adolescence and adulthood) appear to be equally important in fostering and maintaining resilience. [ 44 ]
Not every child who has experienced early trauma will display psychological resilience, as each brain is wired differently; where some children may find future scenarios easier to navigate as a result, others may fall back on maladaptive coping mechanisms that make future stressors significantly more difficult.
Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
Stage three consists of children seeking out coping strategies. [3] Lastly, in stage four, children execute one or more of the coping strategies. [3] However, children with lower tolerance for stressors are more susceptible to alarm and find a broader array of events to be stressful. [3] These children often experience chronic or toxic stress. [3]
A key component of TIE strategies is the incorporation of trauma-informed writing techniques, as examined by Molly Moran. Students are given a safe space to process and communicate their trauma through structured writing exercises, which helps them develop coping skills, emotional stability, and self-awareness.
During the child therapy sessions, the therapist focuses on relaxation training such as deep breathing and muscle relaxation skills, emotion regulation (identifying feelings), a trauma narrative and processing (discussing the overwhelming events and associated feelings), as well as cognitive coping strategies (identifying and replacing negative ...
Trauma- and violence-informed practices can be or are addressed in mindfulness programs, yoga, education, [75] obstetrics and gynaecology, cancer treatment, [76] psychological trauma in older adults, military sexual trauma, cybersex trafficking, sex trafficking [45] and trafficking of children, child advocacy, decarceration efforts, and peer ...
In a longitudinal study of 205 children from an urban community who were followed for ten years, Masten and her colleagues used multiple methods to examine children's growth in competence, the adversities they faced, and the psychosocial resources each child had available to them, such as optimism, coping skills, a sense of mastery or personal ...