Trauma, familia y educación

Abstract

Throughout this article I aim to share my experience in the day-to-day work carried out at a private practice that relates to the impact that certain types of everyday events can have on families, most especially children. The objective is not to address serious traumatic processes, but to look at situations or events that may cause suffering and pain, and which will also require a good level of support and intervention both from the family and the school in order to minimize the risk of leading to future traumas that compromise the healthy development of children and adolescents.

Firstly however I will address the concept of trauma and the consequences of suffering these at an early age, and how family and school environments can be powerful antidotes that contribute to alleviating unavoidable suffering and the prevention of avoidable childhood suffering.  To do this, they must be able to offer care based on a foundations of wellbeing, affection, respect, commitment and empathy. It is necessary for parents to have sufficient parental skills, (or when this is not the case, that they have the opportunity to develop these skills with the support of their networks, family or professional environment), to be able to offer quality care and encourage the promotion of primary resilience during interactions with their children. Schools should also be sensitive to a child’s suffering, and enable good practices to facilitate teachers’ creating solid affective ties with their students, in turn becoming wonderful secondary resilience tutors. "A magnific tandem formed by family and school that will manage to climb up pronounced hills, if they don't forget the importance of cycling together."

     The "backbone" on which both the "body" of the article and the "soul" of my professional practice are based is the Paradigm of Wellness  and the Model of Systemic Child and Adolescent Trauma Therapy whose creators are Jorge Barudy and Margorie Dantagnan.