In episode 9, Kayla puts Caitriona in the hot seat to speak about her research topic of childhood trauma. What is trauma? How can it impact us? Is it a death sentence? Caitriona states that Ireland’s fire fighting approach is not good enough. Action is needed now and it must start by training professionals to look inwards.
Discussion includes: intergenerational trauma, trauma informed care, trauma literacy, relationships, protective factors, one good adult, ACE’s, the need for action now to prevent issues in 20 years time and lots more.
Quotes mentioned
Daniel Siegal defined it as “A trauma can be defined as an experience that threatens our physical survival or one that disrupts our sense of meaning”- Dan Siegel
Peter Levine describes trauma as “not something that happens to us but rather what we contain inside of us in the absence of an empathetic witness (Levine, 2010)
“ Yehuda and her team found that Jewish people who had experienced the holocaust , and their children shared similar genetic patterns. Specifically they found epigenetic tags on the very same part of the gene in both parent and child. It was attributed the the trauma the parents had experienced”. – cited in: It didn’t start with you by Mark Wolynn.
Links to resources/articles mentioned
- Levine, P. (2010) In An Unspoken Voice: How the body releases trauma and restores goodness, Calafornia: North Atlantic Books.
- Siegel, D. and Bryson, P. T. (2020) The Power of Showing Up, available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Showing-Up-parental-Parenting/dp/1912854716/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1645705125&sr=1-1
Books
- What Happened to you – Bruce Perry/ Oprah
- The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog
- Conversations that make a difference for children and young people- Lisa Cherry
- Childhood Disrupted- Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- It didn't start with you – Mark Woylnn
- The deepest well- Nadine Burke Harris
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