Trauma From a Child and Adolescent Perspective: What Experience? What Support?

Abstract

Even it is common to think still today, that children would be spared from trauma due to their young age, their cognitive immaturity, especially since children rarely complain and their distress is expressed more by evils. Young age does nothing to protect against trauma. In fact, it is the opposite, even we speek about double trauma for children since there loved ones are affected. Because the child is also hurt by the changes of attitude of his parent, also in mental suffering. We will talk about the experience of children, from babies to teenagers, and also about the effects of traumatic experience. So we will ask what kind of psychological help should we propose to this young population? And what kind of peventive intervention must we develop to increase their capacity of secure attachment and to resilience from the traumatic experience?