Attachment, Trauma and Seven Core Issues in Adoption/Permanency. Addressing the needs of the Child Part 1

The experience of adoption and permanency for constellation members creates lifelong, intergenerational issues, complexities and opportunities. Trauma, neglect and multiple attachment disruptions have a significant negative impact on a child’s social, emotional, cognitive and physiological development. What are children supposed to do with all the pain, grief, distress, hurt, rejection, shame and anger they carry inside their bodies and minds? The lingering effects of early relational (attachment) trauma and neglect can last a lifetime, unless all of the adults, both parents and professionals, assist the child in healing from the effects of these traumatic losses and experiences. The effects of childhood trauma and neglect always manifest inside the primary attachment relationship. Which means that parents ultimately have the most power to help a child recover and heal from their earliest attachment wounds. Empowering parents with the knowledge and tools they need to use the healing power of the primary attachment relationship to help their child address their feelings of abandonment, abuse, fear and shame