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Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress

Adverse childhood experiences are an important societal concern. Children aged 0–3 are particularly vulnerable to unpredictable chronic stress due to the critical period for brain development and attachment. Trauma-sensitive care is a preventative approach to reduce the burden of stressful experienc...

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Autores principales: Dierickx, Serafine, Malisse, Laura, Bisagno, Elisa, Cadamuro, Alessia, Van Haeken, Sarah, Wuyts, Dorien, Linde-Ozola, Zane, Kandãte, Annija, Morva, Dorottya, Rozsa, Monika, Gruber, Andrea, Blom, Johanna M. C., De Fazio, Laura Giovanna, Mosleh, Dima Bou, Varga-Sabján, Dóra, Groenen, Anne
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10297293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37371266
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10061035
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author Dierickx, Serafine
Malisse, Laura
Bisagno, Elisa
Cadamuro, Alessia
Van Haeken, Sarah
Wuyts, Dorien
Linde-Ozola, Zane
Kandãte, Annija
Morva, Dorottya
Rozsa, Monika
Gruber, Andrea
Blom, Johanna M. C.
De Fazio, Laura Giovanna
Mosleh, Dima Bou
Varga-Sabján, Dóra
Groenen, Anne
author_facet Dierickx, Serafine
Malisse, Laura
Bisagno, Elisa
Cadamuro, Alessia
Van Haeken, Sarah
Wuyts, Dorien
Linde-Ozola, Zane
Kandãte, Annija
Morva, Dorottya
Rozsa, Monika
Gruber, Andrea
Blom, Johanna M. C.
De Fazio, Laura Giovanna
Mosleh, Dima Bou
Varga-Sabján, Dóra
Groenen, Anne
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description Adverse childhood experiences are an important societal concern. Children aged 0–3 are particularly vulnerable to unpredictable chronic stress due to the critical period for brain development and attachment. Trauma-sensitive care is a preventative approach to reduce the burden of stressful experiences by committing to positive relationships. Professional caregivers are ideally placed to offer trauma-sensitive care; however, earlier research reveals that the tools they need to consciously apply trauma-sensitive care principles are missing. The current study organized living labs (co-creative research method) to present trauma-sensitive care as a preventative approach aimed at children aged 0–3. Two living labs were organized in Belgium and Hungary, where professional caregivers collaborated to create a protocol that offers guidelines on how to implement trauma-sensitive care. The resulting protocol included a theoretical foundation on trauma as well as a translation of these guidelines into practical recommendations. The protocol was evaluated by incorporating it into a training intervention delivered to 100 professional caregivers from childcare organizations across four European countries. The protocol received positive feedback from participants, with results indicating a self-reported increase in knowledge, attitude and practice of trauma-sensitive care principles. We conclude that this trauma-sensitive care protocol is a promising answer to the needs of professional caregivers working with children aged 0–3.
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spelling pubmed-102972932023-06-28 Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress Dierickx, Serafine Malisse, Laura Bisagno, Elisa Cadamuro, Alessia Van Haeken, Sarah Wuyts, Dorien Linde-Ozola, Zane Kandãte, Annija Morva, Dorottya Rozsa, Monika Gruber, Andrea Blom, Johanna M. C. De Fazio, Laura Giovanna Mosleh, Dima Bou Varga-Sabján, Dóra Groenen, Anne Children (Basel) Article Adverse childhood experiences are an important societal concern. Children aged 0–3 are particularly vulnerable to unpredictable chronic stress due to the critical period for brain development and attachment. Trauma-sensitive care is a preventative approach to reduce the burden of stressful experiences by committing to positive relationships. Professional caregivers are ideally placed to offer trauma-sensitive care; however, earlier research reveals that the tools they need to consciously apply trauma-sensitive care principles are missing. The current study organized living labs (co-creative research method) to present trauma-sensitive care as a preventative approach aimed at children aged 0–3. Two living labs were organized in Belgium and Hungary, where professional caregivers collaborated to create a protocol that offers guidelines on how to implement trauma-sensitive care. The resulting protocol included a theoretical foundation on trauma as well as a translation of these guidelines into practical recommendations. The protocol was evaluated by incorporating it into a training intervention delivered to 100 professional caregivers from childcare organizations across four European countries. The protocol received positive feedback from participants, with results indicating a self-reported increase in knowledge, attitude and practice of trauma-sensitive care principles. We conclude that this trauma-sensitive care protocol is a promising answer to the needs of professional caregivers working with children aged 0–3. MDPI 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10297293/ /pubmed/37371266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10061035 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Dierickx, Serafine
Malisse, Laura
Bisagno, Elisa
Cadamuro, Alessia
Van Haeken, Sarah
Wuyts, Dorien
Linde-Ozola, Zane
Kandãte, Annija
Morva, Dorottya
Rozsa, Monika
Gruber, Andrea
Blom, Johanna M. C.
De Fazio, Laura Giovanna
Mosleh, Dima Bou
Varga-Sabján, Dóra
Groenen, Anne
Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress
title Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress
title_full Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress
title_fullStr Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress
title_full_unstemmed Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress
title_short Care When It Counts: Establishing Trauma-Sensitive Care as a Preventative Approach for 0–3-Year-Old Children Suffering from Trauma and Chronic Stress
title_sort care when it counts: establishing trauma-sensitive care as a preventative approach for 0–3-year-old children suffering from trauma and chronic stress
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10297293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37371266
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10061035
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