23 - Guest Expert: Amanda Crowder, LCSW, Trauma Specialist, Understanding Childhood Trauma

Host: Dr. Tara Egan
Co-host: Anna, teen daughter
Guest Expert: Amanda Crowder, Certified Trauma Specialist

Today we are talking with Amanda Crowder (LCSW) about childhood trauma. We want to share this information with clinicians and parents, so we can learn little bit more about it, seeing that it is such a public health issue right now.

Trauma is a subjective experience to an objective event, Amanda Crowder says. It's not what you think someone should be feeling or how they should be handling it. It is more about what is going on for them.

An example Amanda gives is how a family with three kids can all experience a divorce between their parents completely differently, and maybe only one experiences trauma from it.

We share a ton of information about :
- What trauma is and how it is not necessarily caused by one event
- The  subjective nature of it
- Some examples of what could be considered as traumatic
- Characteristics/symptoms you might see in a child that has experienced trauma
 - Details of one of the main modalities Amanda uses with her clients

We discuss with Amanda what a parent can do to be supportive if their child is having a reaction to something and  interpreting it is as highly stressful or traumatic and how a traumatic event can impact kids later in life.

Tara shares some personal anecdotes from her own life and childhood and how her mother's mental illness shaped her life in some ways and how her and her family have dealt with it.

As always, Anna discusses her perspective from the teen's point of view.

To check out Amanda's book, CBT Toolbox for Children & Adolescents, go HERE

To learn more about Amanda and her work, you can visit her website www.calmingwaterscounselingservices.com

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This podcast episode is edited by Laura Bauder of PodcastHERs.