De-Escalation Techniques for Parents of Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma

How does trauma play into behavior and what can parents do to help? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Cameka Hart, Therapeutic Family Specialist at Buckner Children and Family Services, and Jennifer McCallum, Lead Post Adoption Counselor for Buckner Children and Family Services.

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Core principles of Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) for parenting kids who have been abused and neglected
How to prevent the child from getting out of control?
What to do in the midst of a tantrum.
Anticipating what sets the child off. Hunger, stress, triggered memory, feeling out of control or threatened, transitions.
Transitions are hard for some kids.
The power allowing the child to re-do.
Different forms that a re-do can take.
Having children repair the harm they have caused.
Helping the child express their needs.
Helping a child regulate.
Brainstorm solutions.
Importance of playful interactions.
Importance of routines.
Importance of self-care for foster and adoptive parents.
How to cope with a child who is escalating and throwing a tantrum in public?
How to ground yourself in the midst of trying to cope with a tantrum.