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Coping
Strategies for Children |
- Rebuild love and reaffirm attachments. Physical
touching is importabnt. Let children know who will
take care of them if parent cannot and reassure them
that care and nurturing is available.
- Children need to vent about the trauma. They need
validation for their feelings, no matter what they
are. Suggesting alternative endings or allowing children
to create other outcomes is healthy.
- Adults must tolerate regression.
- Allow children to talk about
the trauma in their own time frame. Do not make the subject a taboo.
Children will usually discuss the event in small
segments.
- Provide as much factual information as the child
requests. Questions can often be graphic and uncomfortable
for adults. Honesty without further trauma is important.
- Sometimes, if a child refuses to communicate about
trauma, adults can ask what a theoretical child thinks
about the event.
- Talk about the future and help the child to create
future plans.
- Death must be addressed within the belief system
and attitude of the family, but cannot be ignored.
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