- Title
- A multidisciplinary model for treating complex trauma in early childhood
- Creator
- Ryan, Katherine; Lane, Shelly J.; Powers, Denise
- Relation
- International Journal of Play Therapy Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 111-123
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pla0000044
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Current neurodevelopmental research suggests that chronic and highly stressful environments and experiences, occurring during early development, have a strong negative impact on the neural architecture and overall brain development in young children. Evidence based practice suggests interventions which provide safe, relational, playful, regulatory directed, and repetitive sensory/motor qualities, geared to the developmental age of the child, will best meet child and family needs. Optimally meeting the needs of these children and their caregivers with a neurobiologically based approach requires a multidisciplinary team approach. Here we describe our multidisciplinary practice model and present the case of a "graduate" of our program. Our model is based on Perry's neurosequential model of therapeutics approach to clinical reasoning, and emphasizes the healing power of safe relationships and the use of regulatory activities designed to activate specific brain regions. We also incorporate trauma informed play therapy to support relationship building and self-regulation, strengths-based and trauma informed early childhood education, occupational therapy emphasizing sensory integration for self-regulation, and caregiver therapy. We suggest that this multidisciplinary, multifaceted model of intervention for preschoolers with serious emotional disorders related to the developmental trauma is healing to both the child and caregiver and assists the child to reenter the educational system with more adaptive selfregulation tools and social emotional tools.
- Subject
- early childhood trauma; trauma-informed care; multidisciplinary model; play therapy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354917
- Identifier
- uon:31385
- Identifier
- ISSN:1555-6824
- Language
- eng
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