PTSD, Jesus and You: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, pt 2–Special Guest Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI

Recognizing childhood trauma is as important for us are the solutions. The solution could be you, and your ability to recognize childhood trauma and so that we can help children’s forming brains, healing them as we recognize.

Special guest, Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI joins the podcast to highlight the effects of trauma on a child’s brain particularly as it pertains to abandonment and neglect in all forms. Jeremy brings his knowledge of a well established trauma informed therapy, EMDR and is an approved EMDR trauma consultant.

He discusses the eight phases of the EMDR process:

1. History & Treatment Planning
2. Preparation
3. Assessment
4. Desensitization
5. Installation
6. Body Scan
7.  Closure
8. Revaluation

Why is faith important to healing from trauma?  “Purpose in Life Predicts Better Emotional
Recovery from Negative Stimuli.”  APA style citation below:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080329

Schaefer, S. M., Boylan, J. M., Van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PloS one, 8(11), e80329.

ADHD and PTSD article citation

Barkley, R. A. (1997). Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder, self-regulation, and time. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 18(4), 271-279. doi:10.1097/00004703- 199708000-00009

The effects of abandonment on the young brain:

DeBellis, M. D. (2005). The psychobiology of neglect. Child Maltreatment, 10(2), 150-172. doi:10.1177/1077559505275116

Perry, B. D. (2002). Childhood experience and the expression of genetic potential: What childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture. Brain and Mind, 3(1), 79-100. doi:10.1023/A:1016557824657

Wilkerson, D., Johnson, G. & Johnson, R. (2009). Children of neglect with attachment and time perception deficits: Strategies and interventions. Education, 129(2), 343.