Child Development and Trauma Guide
The guide aims to help professionals in the Out-of-Home Care, Child Protection and Individual and Family Support areas to understand the typical developmental pathways of children and the typical indicators of trauma at differing ages and stages. It highlights how it is difficult for busy workers to integrate knowledge from child development, child abuse and trauma and offer practical, age-appropriate advice regarding the needs of children and their parents and carers when trauma occurs.
Factors posing risks to healthy child development are explicitly listed as Child and Family Risk Factors, Parent Risk Factors, and Wider Factors That Influence Positive Outcomes. Stages of child development for which possible indicators of trauma and Trauma impacts and Parental / carer support following trauma explained in detail as an overview as noted below;
• 0-12 months (divided into weeks and months)
• 12 months – 3 years
• 3-5 years
• 5-7 years
• 7-9 years
• 9-12 years
• 12-18 years
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- CountryAustralia
- LanguageEnglish
- Type of resourceDocument
