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Reactive trauma disorder can develop in children who experience trauma over a long period of time, disrupting the normal connections between parent and child and stunting the child's brain development. For a student with potential reactive trauma disorder, it is important to establish a support system including a mentor who is always on the child's side. Teachers should also help the student develop emotional regulation strategies like breathing exercises to implement when angry and avoid punishment or fighting, which can undermine a traumatized child's ability to learn and trust.

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Notes From PD

Reactive trauma disorder can develop in children who experience trauma over a long period of time, disrupting the normal connections between parent and child and stunting the child's brain development. For a student with potential reactive trauma disorder, it is important to establish a support system including a mentor who is always on the child's side. Teachers should also help the student develop emotional regulation strategies like breathing exercises to implement when angry and avoid punishment or fighting, which can undermine a traumatized child's ability to learn and trust.

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Notes from PD special needs

READ distressed or deliberately defiant? (book)


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Reactive trauma disorder or chronic TD


Trauma over a long period of time
Type 2
Normal connections between parent and child do not occur,
causing the childs brain to not gain the happy connections
between mother/parent and child, and causing the childs
brain to develop differently or to be stunted

Think about behaviour issues eg one of the children in my classroom,


as a child with a profound disability
Supporting the child:
Child

Teach
er

RTD:
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Mentor (for the


child) someone
who will always be
on the childs side
as support.

Suppor
t
system

Language issues
Unable to communicate which then causes the child to
punch/lash out, as they attempt to communicate their distress or
emotions

Creating emotional regularity


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what to do when they start getting angry how to help them


calm down
Through breathing
Practice strategies when they are in a good place, so then they
can implement them when they are angry
It can take a child half an hour to calm down, due to the toxins
that are pumping through the brain

Crisis management:
1. Primary prevention
- For example sensory profile showing strengths and limitations
(triggers)
- Mentors someone the student can check in with at the start and
end of day to see how they are going to start the day of right
2. Reactive response
- Distracting techniques to calm him down
- Walk away from issue dont hold them down
- Get other students out of the way

DONT:
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Use firm management/punishment


Rewards dont always work, as they expect them to be taken
away eg an abusive parent may have bargained with the child
Ill give you this if you do.., but then taken away the
promise/gift later. The child has to learn to trust that what you
say you will actually do (lack of consistency in parents)
Dont fight with them

Key idea calming strategies for child

Find the students interest and use language around it for example
student from classroom is interested in animals use this to connect
him to learning and behaviour

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