A Beginner’s Guide to Childhood Trauma: Types, Effects and Treatments

By David Hosier, MSc (2019)

From Amazon.com: “Part One – The Introduction, describes, and elaborates upon, the main elements of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and elucidates the main ways in which children may experience interpersonal and complex trauma.
Possible negative effects of childhood trauma will be considered in Part Two ; whilst most will be assigned their own chapter, some closely related effects will be amalgamated into individual chapters that consider two or more of them together.
Part Three will outline the main therapies that are currently used to treat the adverse effects of childhood trauma.
CONTENTS :

PART ONE : Introduction.

Introduction. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study And Types Of Interpersonal Trauma.

PART TWO : Adverse Effects Of Childhood Trauma.

2) Childhood Trauma Leading To Need To Self Medicate.
3) Arrested Development.
4) The False Belief Of Being An ‘Intrinsically Bad’ Person.
5) Harmful Effects Of Labelling The Child As ‘Bad.’
6) How False Feelings Of Being ‘Bad’ Are Perpetuated.
7) Anxiety.
8) Depression.
9) Hypervigilance.
11) Borderline Personality Disorder.
12) Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Complex PTSD).
12) Hypersexuality.
13) Violence.
14) Antisocial Personality Disorder.
15) Dissociation.
16) Emotional Dysregulation.
17) Severe Relationship Difficulties.
18) Addictions.
19) Difficulties Managing Stress.
20) Psychosis.
21) The Agonizing Effects Of Shame.
22) Self-Hatred.
23) Reduced Life Expectancy.
24) Impaired Educational Achievement.
25) Suicide.
26) Childhood Trauma And Workplace Performance.
27) Did Your Dysfunctional Family Make You The ‘Identified Patient’?

PART THREE : Recovery.

28) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
29) Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing (EMDR) :
30) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
31) Somatic Experiencing Therapy.
32) Self-Hypnosis.
33) Mindfulness Meditation.
34) Neurofeedback.
35) Yoga.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
David Hosier BSc Hons; MSc; PGDE(FAHE) was educated at Goldsmiths College, University of London and holds two degrees in psychology as well as a diploma in education. He is the founder of childhoodtraumarecovery.com for which he has written over 700 articles over a period of six years. This book, in response to many readers’ requests, represents the culmination of this work by bringing together many of the most important of these articles to provide an overview of the topic of childhood trauma.
His academic interest in childhood trauma and its effects began in 1993 when he wrote his final year university thesis on the effects of childhood depression on academic performance.”