Empowering Kids Regulation and Healing Process After Traumatic Events

This week on Raising Joy, Wini King and Dr. Kristen Pyrc discuss how to define trauma and the mental and physical responses adolescents have with Joy Hoffman, Psy.D., a psychologist at Cook Children’s Pediatrics in Hurst, Texas.

Dr. Hoffman details how different adolescent age groups respond to trauma and healing. Discover the best practices on how to create a safe space and gain trust to help the child heal depending on age and events.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How to define the different variations of trauma
• How to identify the different trauma responses in each child
• Ways to respond to trauma responses
• Keeping calm in order to gain trust
• Ways to help regulate emotional outbursts

This episode is packed with ways to navigate and regulate the physical and emotional responses of trauma in various adolescent age groups.