What is trauma-based behavior?
There is no single driver for trauma-based behavior.
“Trauma-based behaviour can usually be identified as patterns or repetitive routines that play themselves out in the relationships and environments that children and young people are engaged in. It can be a response to traumatic memory traces triggered externally by events or exchanges with others. It can be familiar strategies used to manage their internal states. It can be driven by change or unpredictability. It can be influenced by increasing levels of stress. It can be shaped by the extent of the rhythms and sensory stimulation of their environment. It is very much influenced by the negative self-identities which children and young people believe to be true about themselves.”
Making Space for Learning: Trauma-Informed Practice in Schools
, Australian Childhood Foundation. 2010, pg. 47
"I say it in my behavior"
Transcript
“...8 to 10 years old, been in communication with my mother but not living with her and being told that she would come get me at, say, today’s the 3rd of May, say the 27th : you’re gonna live with me. And I’m waiting, anticipating, and when that day comes, you know, she doesn’t show up and I was, like, I’m like a volcano. So, I been waiting and anticipating and now she kind of let me down again, so, I don’t know how to articulate this to my teachers. But I say it in my behavior, you know, indirectly.”
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