Child Trauma And Its Impact On The Relationships With A Foster Family
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My proposal is to undertake a systematic literature review to answer a question; 'What is the impact of a child's traumatic experience on the relationships with a foster family?'
What the topic is about?
Childhood experiences have a tremendous impact on the future development of a child. Positive and negative events within a child’s life can affect the health, mental health and social opportunities of children and adolescents lifelong. Early experiences are therefore a vital issue within the public health sector (CDC, 2018). There are still debates about how trauma should be defined. Trauma can be identified as an event which a child was involved in or witnessed and which made him or her feel intensely threatened (CDC, 2018). The Diagnostic …show more content…
or experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event(s)”. Children and adolescents can be exposed to a range of traumatic events or trauma such as emotional, physical or sexual abuse, household mental illness or substance abuse, witnessing mothers treated violently, parental separation or divorce, different types of neglect (CDC, 2018). After a traumatic event, the human body creates a stress response, which can elicit a variety of physical symptoms causing differences in behaviour and emotions. These changes can last from several hours to days and can bring a range of other …show more content…
It can be argued that social workers are ideally placed at the front line of helping in facilitating development and growth after traumatic events (Joseph and Murphy, 2014). Social workers are committed to the promotion of social and economic justice and social work research can lead to positive policy changes for children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma. Furthermore, social workers aim to offer a safe, trustworthy environment based on collaboration, in which service users can heal. Social workers also seek to empower service users instead of victimising them, informing them of the resources that the community or society has to help them (CDC, 2018). Foster care families aim to provide children in need with a loving and safe environment where they can live and grow, therefore in order to help with this and with building a secure attachment we need to know how a child's experiences, including traumatic ones, impact on building the relationship with their foster families (Joseph and Murphy, 2014). It is also important from a child's point of view to have a good relationship with a foster family to be able to have a secure base and ability to grow and achieve (CDC,
My proposal is to undertake a systematic literature review to answer a question; 'What is the impact of a child's traumatic experience on the relationships with a foster family?'
What the topic is about?
Childhood experiences have a tremendous impact on the future development of a child. Positive and negative events within a child’s life can affect the health, mental health and social opportunities of children and adolescents lifelong. Early experiences are therefore a vital issue within the public health sector (CDC, 2018). There are still debates about how trauma should be defined. Trauma can be identified as an event which a child was involved in or witnessed and which made him or her feel intensely threatened (CDC, 2018). The Diagnostic …show more content…
or experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event(s)”. Children and adolescents can be exposed to a range of traumatic events or trauma such as emotional, physical or sexual abuse, household mental illness or substance abuse, witnessing mothers treated violently, parental separation or divorce, different types of neglect (CDC, 2018). After a traumatic event, the human body creates a stress response, which can elicit a variety of physical symptoms causing differences in behaviour and emotions. These changes can last from several hours to days and can bring a range of other …show more content…
It can be argued that social workers are ideally placed at the front line of helping in facilitating development and growth after traumatic events (Joseph and Murphy, 2014). Social workers are committed to the promotion of social and economic justice and social work research can lead to positive policy changes for children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma. Furthermore, social workers aim to offer a safe, trustworthy environment based on collaboration, in which service users can heal. Social workers also seek to empower service users instead of victimising them, informing them of the resources that the community or society has to help them (CDC, 2018). Foster care families aim to provide children in need with a loving and safe environment where they can live and grow, therefore in order to help with this and with building a secure attachment we need to know how a child's experiences, including traumatic ones, impact on building the relationship with their foster families (Joseph and Murphy, 2014). It is also important from a child's point of view to have a good relationship with a foster family to be able to have a secure base and ability to grow and achieve (CDC,