SocialEmoResponce

The discussion focused on the importance of understanding trauma's impact on children's development, communication of unmet needs, emotional regulation, and social responses. Trauma-informed advocacy emphasizes avoiding re-traumatization, recognizing triggers, communicating gently, and building trust to support children's growth. Behavior is viewed as communication, highlighting the need to address unmet needs rather than punish. This approach leads to a deeper understanding of children's actions and promotes their social and emotional well-being. Trauma-Informed Perspective in both settings. In developmental psychology, we learn that children need to be able to communicate unmet needs and how trauma can influence their attention, memory, emotions, and social responses. To tie into what the group were saying in cases and uses, social and emotional responses will affect a child's growth and how many would have trouble with talking about their emotions and handling emotions, such as emotional regulation and emotional needs, especially when it's in a controlled or uncontrolled environment, such as school, professional life, and everyday life. During our conference meeting, we were taught Trauma-Informed Advocacy, which is where we avoid re-traumatizing the child, understand the child's triggers, and communicate softly and safely to the child, and focus on building trust first. Each one of these four main topics can help a child's development and make sure that their social and emotional reports enhance and are better off in the future, and how when a child shuts down or avoids eye contact or seems overly compliant, we can assess the triggers, communicate to them that it's okay to either shut down or not shut down all the ways, so we can start building and assessing for the future. I love what you said about behavior being communication, because once you really understand trauma, you can't unsee it. You stop seeing a child as misbehaving and start asking what they're trying to protect themselves from. CASA really pushes us to pause and look beneath the behavior, and that changes the way we look at kids in general. Yeah, I think that was really a big eye-opener for me, because within the school system that I work in, I think we often see trauma, or sorry, we see responses and behaviors as, oh, they're acting out, oh, they're acting bad, we need to punish, we need to punish them so they learn. But instead, in CASA, I learned that it's really unmet needs. It's things that the child is trying to show in a different way that they might not be able to verbalize is, I need this, or I'm missing this in my life, and that was really an eye-opener to me.