For all Children:

Ò These Foundational Setting Events can help put any of us on a trajectory for our “Best Life.”

Ò See: https://bestoutcomes.blogspot.com/2020/08/charting-lifecourse-introduction-to.html

Ò And: https://www.lifecoursetools.com/

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40 Developmental Assets - Success 2000

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Developmental Assets

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Children with Trauma

For some children, adolescents, and adults, who have experienced significant trauma:

Ò TraumaInformed therapy can be helpful.

Ò Playtherapy (not referring to P.L.A.Y.) can be helpful.

Ò Equinetherapy and yoga also have some good research supporting  it’s use for improved self-regulation.

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Bessell van der Kolk: Overcome Trauma With Yoga

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Resilience

Ò Much of the early research on resilience was conducted by university extension in Hawaii. 

Ò From resilience has grown:

Ò Risk and Protective Factors &

Ò Developmental Assets 

You can learn about developmental assets which help children thrive here: https://www.search-institute.org/our-research/development-assets/developmental-assets-framework/

ÒMost children/youth/people with trauma, most children/youth/people with disabilities, most children/youth/people, CAN have spark, can thrive.  This is an important component of their “Best Life.”

Ò See:  

TEDxTC - Peter Benson - Sparks: How Youth Thrive.

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ACES

While this is an over simplification, the study found that the more adverse childhood experiences (ACES) a child had (risk factors) the more likely they were to have social, emotional, & cognitive impairment. 

This in turn increases the likelihood the child/adult will become involved with health-risk behaviors. 

This in-turn increases the risk of disease, disability, and social problems, and ultimately early death. 

However, well before early death, is poor quality of life.

What the pyramid does not demonstrate, is the importance of protective factors. 

Many people who have adverse childhood experiences go on to thrive. 

Quite often the difference is the presence of protective factors, strength, resilience, or developmental assets. 

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Maslow

What happens when you try to teach or help a child... or adult change/improve behavior when physiological needs have not been met?  What if there are safety concerns, how much progress can you make with behavior... or health?  How difficult is it if the child or adult does not have a good sense of love or belonging?

What happens when you try to do intervention and there are significant physiological or safety concerns for the child or family?

How difficult is it if there isn’t sound attachment?

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Fundamental Setting Events

Therapists, educators, parents, should never underestimate the critical importance of fundamental, developmental building blocks,  experiences, and setting events. 

Too often we attribute the lack of progress to a lack of motivation or skills, when other critical, fundamental, issues are at play and must be addressed for significant improvement/progress to occur.

Ò Do you remember???

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What caused the short.

Ò We kept a set of spare keys in the ash tray.

Ò When the car would jostle around, the keys would cause a short.

Ò Keys removed.  End of problem.

So...

Ò Before writing goals or objectives.  (Goals are where you want to go, objectives are how you will (or the steps you will take to) get there.

Ò Is there a need?

Ò Is there a problem?

Ò Is there a short? (are there setting events)

Ò What’s causing the short?

What are the:

Fundamental Setting Events?  (Click to learn more)

What's causing the short?

Ò Early in our marriage, my wife and I bought a Ford Escort.

Ò Soon we started having electrical shorts… over and over and over again. 

Ò It would get fixed and then would short out, again.

Ò Finally a mechanic discovered…

Any guesses?

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Foundational Setting Events These are the things, without which, the straw May not have broken the camel’s back. AND How to write: Contextually Mediated measurable behavioral objectives(MBOs)

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1980's Ford Escort: What's causing the short?

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ACES

While this is an over simplification, the study found that the more adverse childhood experiences (ACES) a child had (risk factors) the more likely they were to have social, emotional, & cognitive impairment. 

This in turn increases the likelihood the child/adult will become involved with health-risk behaviors. 

This in-turn increases the risk of disease, disability, and social problems, and ultimately early death. 

However, well before early death, is poor quality of life.

How can adverse childhood experiences affect health, learning, habits, and behavioral change?  Can anything be done to help the healing?  What?  Please feel free to make comments or ask questions below.
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