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    • What does it mean to be a Level 1 Trauma Center?

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      You may know that VCU Health is the region’s only level I trauma center, but do you know what a level I trauma center actually does? Get to know our trauma center at a glance and learn more by visiting VCUHealth.org/Trauma

       
    • How trauma and poverty impact a child's brain

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      Experts say trauma and poverty can actually change a child’s brain.

       
    • Descending Tracts & Spinal Cord Lesions | Dana Almazroua | NEU 241 PAL review session

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      How is ongoing, severe stress and adversity in early childhood connected to chronic disease in adults? And, what can we do about it? In this animated video, narrated by Center on the Developing Child Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., learn what the latest science tells us about how early experiences affect not only early learning and school readiness, but also lifelong health. Understand the effects of adversities such as poverty, discrimination, systemic racism, exposure to violence, and child maltreatment, abuse, and neglect on the developing brain and many other systems in the body. Challenge yourself to think about how we can use policies and resources to address the sources of these problems. And, consider how integrating pediatric primary care with every aspect of the early childhood ecosystem may be an important part of the solution.

       
    • Inside a hospital trauma center

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      Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how hospital trauma centers deal with mass casualties.
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      Up-Close Look At Real Life In Trauma Unit

      In the world of emergency medicine, there is often a thin link between life and death.
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    • Childhood Trauma: The Lives of the Neglected Children

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      Children who experience physical, cognitive or emotional neglect, often face anxiety. As a result, their body produces stress hormones. If this happens a lot, these hormones become toxic for their developing brain, which then later can repress emotional and cognitive well-being for life.

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      TREATMENTS
      If a child is used to suppressing their emotions, because of neglect, it may be difficult to recognize and experience them in a healthy way. Therapists and mental health professionals can help both children and adults learn to identify, accept, and express their emotions in a healthful manner. These treatment options include:
      1. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT): CBT aims to explain to you what’s going on inside your brain and how to cope with irrational feelings or fears.
      2. The Hoffman Process: This 7-8 day’s guided process, designed to bring participants back into their childhood to reconnect with their parents and make peace.
      3. Family therapy: If a child is being emotionally neglected at home, family therapy can help both the parents and the child.
      4. Parenting classes: Parents who neglect their child’s emotional needs could benefit from parenting classes.
      5. Psychoanalysis: The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e., make the unconscious conscious.

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      Zeanah, C. H. et al., 2005. Attachment in Institutionalized and Community Children in Romania. Society for Research in Child Development, Volume 76, pp. 1015-1028

      Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, M. P. C. M. L. & Juffer, F., 2008. IQ of Children Growing Up in Children’s Homes: A Meta-Analysis on IQ Delays in Orphanages. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Volume 54, pp. 341-366

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      https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-28/half-million-kids-survived-romanias-slaughterhouses-souls-now-they-want-justice.

      Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., Fox, N.A., Marshall, P. J., Smyke, A.T., & Guthrie, D. (2007). Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Science, 318(5858), 1937-1940. PMID: 18096809

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      Ceausescu’s Longest-Lasting Legacy — The Cohort of ’67

      https://adoption.org/many-orphans-worldwide

      CHAPTERS
      00:00 Neglect Theory
      00:40 Daniel Rucareanu’s story
      01:33 Cognitive Neglect
      02:29 Physical Neglect
      03:10 Emotional Neglect
      05:10 Ending
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      This ‘Brain Builders’ video explains how experiences in the first years of our lives affect how our brains form. Science tells us that the stress of abuse or neglect can damage the basic structures of a child’s developing brain. Without the right help, it can put them at risk of a lifetime of health problems, developmental issues and addiction. It’s up to us to make sure that children overcome these stresses and have the nurturing experiences they need for positive development.
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    • 4 Ways to Heal From Your Past (Traumatic Memories Part 2)

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      Here’s the thing about trauma: even though the event happened in the past, we work with trauma in the present moment. It causes pain in the present moment, it changes your nervous system in the present moment. The hurt isn’t just “in the past” it’s right here, in your body and emotions right now. In the last video we talked about 4 ways traumatic memories differ from regular memories. In this video we’ll cover 4 ways you can work with those memories in the present moment so they don’t bother you so much.

      When traumatic memories are integrated and consolidated, real healing can happen. This might look like someone being able to say “This terrible thing happened, but right now, I am safe”. And when they remember the event, they can calm their mind and body in the present moment. The memory becomes a memory instead of a flashback where they re-experience a terrible event as if it’s happening again.
      As we talked about in the last video traumatic memories differ from regular memories in 4 ways:
      They don’t naturally soften over time, they stay intense and vivid
      Traumatic memories are often sensory- it FEELS like the event in sights, sounds, smells.
      The passage of time is distorted-it feels like you’re living it over again in the present
      They are often fragmented, they don’t follow a sequential order, some information may be missing or blocked

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      In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life’s direction.
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    • Never Say This to a Trauma Survivor

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      Do you see yourself as overly sensitive? Do have intense emotional reactions that seem extreme and disproportionate to the event that triggered it? In Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) we often use the analogy of a burn or wound to help us understand how past trauma can increase sensitivity years later. When a wound is psychological the people around us often have no idea that they have touched on old wounds. So they can feel confused, fearful or angry when they witness the intense emotional reaction that appears to come out of nowhere.

      If we have no idea how to heal those old wounds, it is understandable that we get to work hiding them or trying to numb the pain that they can trigger. And there are plenty of things that do just that. But none of them come without a cost. The price we pay is often in our relationships, mental and physical health, and ability to be at peace when all is still and silent.

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    • Differences between Level 1 and Level 2 trauma center

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      According to the American Trauma Society, there’s a huge difference. It’s important to note that while specific qualities can vary from facility to facility, these are the criteria laid out by the society.

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