Trauma is a deeply disturbing or distressing experience. It can also happen to a person for different causes. These situations are:
- A serious bodily injury caused by a violent act or an accident
- An abnormal behavioral or psychological state that results from severe emotional or mental stress or injury
Life Supports Counselling has professional psychologists and counselors that aids any trauma to children, adolescents, and adults.
Three types of trauma
Individual trauma may result from a series of events, an event, or a set of circumstances experienced by an individual as emotionally or physically harmful or threatening. It has lasting adverse effects on the functioning, physical, emotional, social, well-being, and functioning of an individual. There are main types of trauma:
- Acute trauma. It can result from a single incident.
- Chronic trauma. It is repeated and prolonged, such as abuse or domestic violence.
- Complex trauma. It is exposure to multiple and varied traumatic events, often invasive interpersonal nature.
Early childhood trauma
Early childhood trauma refers to the traumatic experience that happens to children ages 0 to 6. Yes, children can also experience trauma. Early childhood trauma comes in various types, such as:
- Domestic violence
- Natural disasters
- Gender abuse
- Physical abuse
- Traumatic grief
- Community violence
- Victim of Crime
- Illness, medical injury, or procedures
- Neglect, deprivation
- Accidents
- Kidnapping
- School violence
- Loss
Trauma in children can be serious. It can cause potential issues in their well-being and personality. So, they should get trauma counseling.
What is trauma counseling?
Trauma therapy is specifically focused on helping an individual cope with the emotional response caused by the traumatic event. It is a treatment aimed to reduce or eliminate traumatization. Trauma counseling is trauma-focused therapy, a specific approach to recognizing and emphasizing an understanding of how traumatic experience affects the child:
- mental
- behavioral
- emotional
- physical
- spiritual well-being
Importance of trauma counseling
Trauma counseling aims to assist individuals, families, and entire communities in finding healthy ways to cope with the after-effects of the traumatic incident. Think of this: there is no one-size-fits-all solution. The hope is to learn to regulate strong emotions and develop the ability to trust. A traumatic counselor has the role to provide sufferers with an empathetic setting, in which they talk about the experience before developing the strategies that assist them in coping with and overcoming the long-term effects of the happening.
Some people suffering from trauma are afraid to reach out. They choose to remain silent and isolate themselves. In fact, they suffer from trauma, which leads to serious incidents when left untreated. Yes, trauma must be treated and the right way to recover from it is to get therapy.
In this way, a person suffering from trauma should release what they feel and have a trusted person, who can be licensed or a psychologist that can understand the situation and perform therapy to deal with the condition.