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The ChildTrauma Academy and its partner Fellows and institutions are working to help improve the lives of traumatized and maltreated children. A key to this process is building "capacity." The more clinicians and other professionals understand the impact of trauma, neglect, exposure to violence and chaos on the developing child, the more likely they are to begin shifting practice, program and policy to better serve these children. The CTA has several ongoing "capacity" building efforts with communities across North America. These direct ongoing relationships include on-site and distance teaching and consultation activities. Over time, however, the CTA recognized that the demand for training, program consultation and clinical service delivery far out-stripped our capacity. In response to this, we have worked to develop a set of distance consultation and training models. In this issue we will share some of our progress in this area. As always, we appreciate the positive - and not-so- positive constructive feedback we receive from from our previous Newsletters. We look forward to your comments on this Newsletter. We will continue to work hard to provide useful and timely information to help you continue to better understand and serve high risk children and their families. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
As described in previous CTA Newsletters, we have been using
LiveMeeting, a web-based, distance- teaching/consulting
program to bring multiple, physically-separate clinical
groups together for teaching and program consultation. This
Fall we began the first in a set of ongoing
"capacity"-building case-based training series.
This first series is focusing on an introduction to the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics as applied in therapeutic settings with young children. With half a dozen institutional partners and many more individual practitioners we are beginning a set of combined didactic, discussion and clinical staffings to help clinicians and practitioners develop some comfort with integrating a neurodevelopmental perspective into their existing clinical practice. This approach is meant to complement but not replace, existing high-quality clinical efforts with at risk children. Project leaders and other potential participants please contact Jana Lihn Rosenfelt (jlrcta@aol.com; 281.932.1375) to discuss the details of arranging individual agreements between the CTA and your program.
Advance praise for "The
Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog"
"In clear and beautiful language, this book explores the effects of trauma on the brains of children. Dr. Perry is both a world class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist. His account of his professional experiences is fascinating and upbeat. And many of the stories he and Szalavitz tell have surprisingly happy endings." –Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia and Letters to a Young Therapist "The human species evolved under conditions that made it impossible
for neglected children to survive. Under modern conditions,
children survive all manner of neglect, albeit often with
terrible emotional damage. Children fortunate enough (if
anyone in such circumstances can be considered fortunate) to
find their way to the office of child psychiatrist Bruce
Perry may sometimes begin to undo the damage. In this
harrowing, but profoundly humane book, Szalavitz and Perry
provide an all too timely, utterly engrossing account of
these children's lives."— Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the
Human Species "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" is Bruce Perry's finest achievement - it gives us all the opportunity to unlock the deepest mystery of our species: why some children turn out to be heroes, and others to be predatory sociopaths. Anyone who wants to understand childhood trauma and its heartbreaking consequences must read this book." -- Andrew Vachss, award-winning author and attorney, founder and national advisory board member of PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children
In the last edition we provided some information on the ACE
studies. This important set of studies is a collaborative
led by investigators at the CDC. The official CDC link to
the ACE studies is
http://w ww.cdc.gov/NCCDPHP/ACE/ and you can get much
more information on the dozens of research papers generated
from these studies as well as more information on their
ongoing and future research.
One of the recent publications of the ACE study group is The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood : A convergence of evidence from neurobiology and epidemiology. Published in the Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Apr;256(3):174-86. Dr. Perry was a co-author of this review which examines the relationships and potential neurobiological mechanisms which underlie the observed negative effects of adverse childhood experiences on physical, mental and social health later in life.
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