In this engaging, approachable book, a pediatrician and a psychologist walk step by step through the transformational process of creating a trauma-informed practice. They begin with essential concepts such as the debate over “ACE screening,” then share how to prepare an organization for change, assess risks to relational health, support caregivers, use resilience-based interventions, and finally how to sustain a trauma-responsive practice. Reflecting the authors’ call for interdisciplinary collaboration, the book is presented as a dialogue between two experts, describing how they collaborated on their own practice transformation—including both the pitfalls and the factors that made the process successful. Available for purchase at https://www.aap.org/The-Trauma-Informed-Pediatric-Practice-Paperback
Appendix N: Yolky Feelings
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Published:August 2024
"Yolky Feelings", The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice: A Resilience-Based Roadmap to Foster Early Relational Health, R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP, Amy King, PhD
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Sometimes, processing feelings is difficult for children because they lack the proper terminology to sort through the complex feelings they have inside. Also, children (like adults) mistake secondary feelings as primary feelings, which often leaves them feeling misunderstood or corrected or lands them on the receiving end of discipline.
Primary feelings: Primary feelings are just that: the core feeling of what’s going on inside of us. They best exemplify what is happening and, if labeled properly, most often lead to help.
Sadness, worry, and confusion are 3 primary feelings; they may also be called by synonyms (eg, blue, anxious, misunderstood...