Playful Parenting: The Impact of Trauma and The Power of Play

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Playful Parenting:

The Impact of Trauma and The Power of Play

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Playful Parenting:The Impact of Trauma and The

Power of Play

Allison Cooke DouglasR e s o u r c e C e n t e r P r o g r a m M a n a g e r

H a r m o n y F a m i l y C e n t e r

Joining children in their world of play, focusing on connection and confidence, giggling and roughhousing, and following your child's lead.

-Lawrence J Cohen, Ph.D.

Playful Parenting is

• Trauma Impacts Health and Wellbeing

• Trauma Impacts Brain Development

• Trauma Impacts Attachment and Relational Health

Why is Playful Parenting Critical to Foster/Adoptive Families?

ACEs Study Review

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/about_ace.html

• Trauma Impacts Health and Wellbeing

• Trauma Impacts Brain Development

• Trauma Impacts Attachment and Relational Health

Why is Playful Parenting Critical to Foster/Adoptive Families?

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Cortex

Limbic

Diencephalon

Brainstem

Cerebellum

Abstract thought

Concrete Thought

Affiliation/reward

" Attachment"

Sexual Behavior

Emotional Reactivity

" Arousal"

Appetite/Satiety

Blood Pressure

Heart Rate

Temperature

Sleep

Motor Regulation

NEDA

To body via ANS (parasympathetic

& sympathetic nervous systems)

SER

To the rest of body via

neuroendocrine &

neuroimmune systems

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

Source: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, Center for Disease Control

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

Typical Trauma Based Behaviors

• Lack of Self Regulation

• Inability to Focus

• Blows up when corrected

• Defiant

• Unresponsive/ appears to be daydreaming or lazy

• Resists change or transitions

• Odd sensory seeking/avoiding behaviors

• Frequently “seeks attention”

• Forgetfulness

• Reverts to younger behaviors

• Distrust of adults in authority/ appears to lack respect for adults

• Lying and stealing

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

• Prenatal insults can negatively impact development

• Neglect in the earliest years has long term effects

• Trauma sensitizes the stress response systems in the brain

• Early trauma often creates

–developmental inconsistency

–behavioral and regulation challenges

– sensory issues

– lack of executive functioning skills

• Trauma Impacts Health and Wellbeing

• Trauma Impacts Brain Development

• Trauma Impacts Attachment and Relational Health

Why is Playful Parenting Critical to Foster/Adoptive Families?

Attachment and Relational Health

• Relationship problems with family, adults and peers.

• Problems with attachment and separation from caregivers

• Problems with boundaries

• Distrust and suspiciousness

• Social isolation

• Difficulty attuning to others and relating to other’s perspectives.

Why is Playful Parenting Critical to Foster/Adoptive Families?

Our work as parents of children with maltreatment or caregiving disruption histories is to build the connections (attachment) and skills that mitigate trauma.

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