Trauma Response Paper
In this article response paper, I decided to review the article “7 Ways To Calm a Young Brain in Trauma.” This article focuses on how to relax a child’s mind who have experience trauma. The author thesis is to provide guidance to a teacher who has a student that has trauma and make them feel a part of the class. The author then discusses the seven ways that teachers can calm the students to get them through a day of learning. Dr. Desautels starts the article with a story of a young boy about how he developed his trauma. Each child experiences different events to develop their trauma, but the author explains ways to make them calm their brain to ignore the traumatic events. The author evidence don't necessarily support her claim, but in a way it does. First let us discuss how it don’t support her claim, Dr. Desautels list seven ways to calm a child’s brain. However, the author doesn’t show any
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In class, we listed several of ways that children can become traumatized, and a few of those ways were the loss of a pet or family member, child abuse, and child neglect. Additionally, in class we watched a movie called Lion and we discussed how the main character was affected by trauma and the different traumas the main character experienced. In class, we also discussed how trauma could lead to different mental illness like depression or anxiety. This article relates to child psychology in numerous ways. In conclusion, the author in the article “7 Ways to Calm a Young Brain” thesis was to help teachers calm children brain while at school. The author could have used more data to make the article more credible, but besides that, it was a well-developed article. I would not necessarily recommend this article to others just because of the lack of evidence. However, if I conduct a study, then I will reference these exercises and test them in my
In class, we listed several of ways that children can become traumatized, and a few of those ways were the loss of a pet or family member, child abuse, and child neglect. Additionally, in class we watched a movie called Lion and we discussed how the main character was affected by trauma and the different traumas the main character experienced. In class, we also discussed how trauma could lead to different mental illness like depression or anxiety. This article relates to child psychology in numerous ways. In conclusion, the author in the article “7 Ways to Calm a Young Brain” thesis was to help teachers calm children brain while at school. The author could have used more data to make the article more credible, but besides that, it was a well-developed article. I would not necessarily recommend this article to others just because of the lack of evidence. However, if I conduct a study, then I will reference these exercises and test them in my