CYC 802 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles: Frontal Lobe, Cortisol, Permanent Brain
14 Oct 2016
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Effects of traumatic events on children by perry (2003) Traumatic events in childhood increase risk for social (teenage pregnancy, victimization, drug abuse), neuropsychiatric (ptsd, conduct disorder), and medical problems. Involves locus coruleus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and brainstem nuclei. After the traumatic events children can continue to focus on their internal stimuli, leading to the event playing over and over again in their mind, and them telling the story, acting it out in play and drawings, etc. The more outside the range of normal experience and the more life-threatening the experience, the more difficult it will be for the normal mental mechanisms to work to process and master the experience; leads to mental/psychological responses. Traumatized children may experience so much pain that they begin to dissociate, numbing themselves, avoiding reminders. Symptoms of ptsd also include impulsivity, hypervigilance, restlessness, depression, slower rate of acquiring developmental tasks, regression.
