Michael explains the trauma response, the body and mind long-term reaction to distressing events, and its particular impact on young children including their vulnerability at a very early age to abuse. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When something occurs of particular impact to your senses, the impact is registered first at the brain stem, where your basic regulatory functions reside. 
• Young children do not yet have a fully developed trauma mitigating cortex so ate fully exposed to trauma imprinting especially before the age of 3.
• Early experiences of abuse are imprinted on a child and cause lifelong stress responses to similar circumstances. 

BEST MOMENTS
‘The incident then having triggered an association with a highly distressing past memory results in the individual being totally hijacked by the trauma of a past event.’
‘The impact of trauma is far more deleterious to children, especially very young, preverbal children.’
‘When a child experiences abuse their brain may make an association between particular features of the perpetrator and the circumstances of the abuse.’

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ABOUT THE HOST
Michael Watson is a qualified social worker and author with over thirty years of experience working with children and families. As an expert in family court, Michael is in a key position to assist, advise, and coach parents through their private law family proceedings and provide them with the information and skills to represent themselves successfully in court. His two books, ‘How to Represent Yourself in Family Court’, and ‘FAMILY COURT: Giving Evidence In Family Court’, provide parents with a clearer understanding of family court proceedings, legislation, and parenting skills.