Infant Mental Health

Table of content

Executive Summary3

Introduction4

Discussion and Analysis4

History of Psychological Trauma5

In the trunk of childhood problems to solve7

Symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress disorder8

Help but remember the trauma and total indifference about emotional issues.8

Increased symptoms of "excitement"8

The Symptoms of Trauma in the Short and Long Term9

In the short term9

In the long term:9

What kind of therapy is recommended for children traumatized?9

How to respond to danger10

When Danger Becomes Trauma10

Trauma during the Nineteenth Century11

Post Natal Depression and trauma impacting the infant child12

Consequences in the duration13

Trauma in Childhood Influence Early Mortality13

Principle14

Experiences15

How domestic violence impact on child psychology16

Traumatic Injuries and Development17

Development Traumatic18

Trauma and Child Development18

Psychological Trauma20

Types and Clinical Features20

Disorders Resulting From Psychological Trauma21

Survivors of Infant Trauma Need22

The role of health visitor22

Conclusion23

References24

Executive Summary

The papers discuss about the long term effects of trauma in early infancy. It is a fact that before we understand what a "traumatic experience" or "Traumatic Stress" we must think about what we recognize and manage the danger. The mind, brain and body are programmed to do the danger is paramount to us. The storage of traumatic memories is "encrypted" by images and sensations that can only describe as it has neither the context nor the words to do so. Some people traumatized early in life need to know that it's safe to inhabit their bodies now, to really be in them. They need support, maybe even touch in a place that's frozen or wounded in time past. A touch that tells them that it is safe to return home, that they can trust the process, and that their body is beautiful and strong. We need reminding of the fact that our bodies healed and that our bodies are powerful.

Infant Mental Health

Introduction

If one is to examine the long and convoluted history of literary and cultural trauma, it is necessary to first define exactly what trauma is, a task certainly easier said than done. The difficulty in defining the experience of being traumatized is due to both the elusive nature of trauma itself, and the fact that existing attempts to define the condition are as varied as its multitude of symptoms and representations. For example, consider the diagnosis currently known as post-traumatic stress disorder. Before arriving at its current incarnation, PTSD was known as neuro psychiatric casualty, nervous shock, hysteria, soldier's heart, railway spine, combat fatigue, hysterical neurosis, war neurosis, traumatic neurosis, neurasthenia, and shell shock. Many of these denotative discrepancies stem directly from the work that contemporary trauma theorists have done in their other scholarly endeavours that is, one's other areas of expertise inevitably influence the ways in which each has informed his or her own perception of what trauma is. For example, clinical psychologist Judith Lewis Herman defines trauma as a threat to bodily integrity, or a personal encounter with death. The author known as Chaim Shatan contextualizes trauma as having one's reality torn asunder, leaving no guideposts or boundaries, a definition which is surely influenced by his work with Vietnam veterans (Liotti, 2011, 397-4).

Discussion and Analysis

From the Greek word for “wound,” ...