The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Trauma can have a masking effect.

Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child; a quest for familiarity; an unspoken language and knowledge that a caregiver will be a permanent fixture.

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...

A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base...

Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

My traumatic experience was life changing

Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.