Applying trauma-informed principles to conversations about trauma
This fact sheet has been designed to help friends and family members to better support the survivor in their lives.
Our fact sheets have been tailored to meet the needs of the different groups affected by complex trauma, including childhood trauma and abuse. This includes those who have experienced it, and those who support them personally and professionally.
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This fact sheet has been designed to help friends and family members to better support the survivor in their lives.
Finding out that your friend, family member or partner has a dissociative disorder may feel confusing or unsettling.
This fact sheet can help you if you are supporting a family member, friend, partner or someone you care about to recover from childhood trauma or abuse.
If you experienced trauma or abuse as a child this fact sheet can help you understand more about how what happened to you might have affected you.
The possibilities for and pathways to healing and recovery for survivors of complex trauma.
Exploring the effects of childhood trauma on a person’s sense of self and their core beliefs.
Understanding the possible impacts of complex trauma including childhood trauma and abuse on the body, mind and emotions.
People who experience complex trauma especially from childhood develop a range of coping strategies which are protective at first but often less protective over time.
People with complex trauma experiences are often triggered and experience changes in their level of arousal.
This fact sheet explains the stress response, which is our normal survival - fight, flight and freeze response.
Explaining the stress response, which is our normal survival – fight, flight and freeze response.
Information about complex trauma and how it is different to the trauma of a single incident.