Challenging Children: The Healing Power of Relationship: Recent Episodes
Elaine Spicer
Children with challenging behaviors are in need of adults who understand that most negative behavior comes from a place of fear. Adults who interact regularly with children have the power to help children heal. Healing can take place within the family or even outside of the family.
48 hr. Vimeo availability (Saturday through Sunday) to see "Cracked Up", the documentary about the life of Darrell Hammond, Saturday Night Live comedian. Darrell Hammond struggled for many, many years through a childhood of trauma and adult years with those memories stored in his brain and body. This document helps us to understand the impact of childhood trauma and gives hope to those who have struggled. Leave a message or send an email to : ICFRorg@gmail.com and we will send the Vimeo link and passcode.
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Not only is "life a journey"; but I firmly believe that healing is a journey as well. One does not just arrive at being healed at some point in time; it is an ongoing process through the developmental stages of life.
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How do we know what is happening with adults, children, families, and the elderly when we aren't interacting with folks in person or if in person...not the whole person?
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Social Scientists tell us that "what's predictable is preventable" and here are some strategies and approaches to prevent the long term effects of ACEs.
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A brief explanation of the findings of the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study. What it means in terms of health outcomes.
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In this episode, I will "administer" the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)s Questionnaire. This questionnaire is about your experiences in the first 18 years of your life. You will add up the number questions you answered "yes". In my next podcast, I will address the meaning of those "yes" answers.
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This is a time of great uncertainty, our children need us...we have to get a grip.
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The Belly Laugh: a meditation written by Daniel Hughes, Clinical Psychologist from The Hope-Filled Parent written and produced by Michael Trout.
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It is next to impossible to think logically in the midst of stress and fear. This is a time when before we head into possibly volatile situations, we take stock of our own level of regulation. Our own trauma triggers, our own reaction vs. response to keeping ourselves and others safe.
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The four building blocks that a child needs for healthy development. How to be a quality presence in your child's life. And it's never too late.
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Trying to wade through the fear to help build connection and resilience on the other side.
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The concern of how to help children cope with the traumatic impact of the Covid 19 pandemic is real. How can, how will they recover from the trauma?
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When the diagnosis of a mental disorder and prescription drugs are not necessarily the answer. Can trauma be healed with out either?
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The parenting role and the life-long journey.
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Poem from "The Hope Filled Parent": Meditations for foster and adoptive parents of children who have been harmed
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What does it mean to love a child who can't or won't love you?
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A trauma history does not only possibly belong to the children we parent, the children we teach, the children we provide services for, it can reach far and also be up close and personal.
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Could there be something significant beneath challenging behaviors?
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The unknown about what comes next...the unknown for adults and the unknown for children with trauma histories.
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Todays podcast defines the term "Challenging Children", as I use it.
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This is an introduction to who I am and to what this podcast will be about.
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