How treatment changes depending on the trauma

Peter Levine, PhD Author, explains how the treatment for trauma changes depending on they type of trauma, and while all traumas are different, there is one common result
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Not all traumas are alike. The severity of all traumas are not alike either. So, each trauma does have to be treated in a somewhat different way. In our books we give guidance of how each particular trauma can be treated. But all traumas are about the child becoming stuck in some way. In their body. In their feelings. Of them being days being in shock. And that's a common factor in helping the child overcome all kinds of traumas. To help them get unstuck from the terror, the horror that may be stuck in their bodies. So, the answer, I would say, while all traumas are different, they all result lin our getting stuck in this shock reaction. And by learning to discover the sensations of that shock and letting them move through, parent will hep their children resolve all different kinds of traumas.

Peter Levine, PhD Author, explains how the treatment for trauma changes depending on they type of trauma, and while all traumas are different, there is one common result

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Peter A. Levine, PhD

Author of Trauma Proofing Your Kids & Developer of Somatic Experiencing

Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project. Levine’s international best-seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 24 languages. Levine’s contribution was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award  Recognizing Outstanding Professionals in the Field of Child/Adolescent Mental Health from the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center.

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Transcription: 
Not all traumas are alike. The severity of all traumas are not alike either. So, each trauma does have to be treated in a somewhat different way. In our books we give guidance of how each particular trauma can be treated. But all traumas are about the child becoming stuck in some way. In their body. In their feelings. Of them being days being in shock. And that's a common factor in helping the child overcome all kinds of traumas. To help them get unstuck from the terror, the horror that may be stuck in their bodies. So, the answer, I would say, while all traumas are different, they all result lin our getting stuck in this shock reaction. And by learning to discover the sensations of that shock and letting them move through, parent will hep their children resolve all different kinds of traumas.