by Dr. Robin LaBarbera | Jan 23, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD and Foster Care, CPTSD and PTSD, Trauma-Informed
This article is the second in a three-part series designed to bring awareness to the issue of complex PTSD among foster youth, how C-PTSD affects foster youth who are nearing the age of transition or exit from foster care, and the implications for social workers and...
by Dr. Robin LaBarbera | Jan 16, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD and Foster Care, CPTSD and PTSD, Trauma-Informed
This article is the first of a three-part series designed to bring awareness to the issue of complex PTSD among foster youth, how C-PTSD affects foster youth who are nearing the age of transition or exit from foster care, and the implications for social workers and...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 7, 2019 | ACEs, CPTSD Research
The ACEs Study In the early 1990s, a physician named Vincent Felitti who worked for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego asked a patient who had lost a great deal of weight in a weight loss program why they had dropped out. The answer given stunned Dr. Felitti. That person...
by Shirley Davis | May 14, 2019 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Trauma-Informed
There is a vital part of healing that survivors of adverse childhood experiences, who now live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, can learn to help themselves. This piece of artillery is called resilience. Resiliency can help us overcome the life-altering...
by Shirley Davis | May 4, 2019 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed
We have spent time exploring the basics of becoming trauma-informed and examined how mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and resiliency help form the tripod on which we begin to understand and defeat the consequences of surviving trauma. In this article, we are going to...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 27, 2019 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed
The entire series in January will be focusing on how trauma-informed care can help adults overcome the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). However, to understand the process of healing, we must first explore what happens to the brains of traumatized...
