1Cademy - Barriers to treatment for children with developmental trauma: shame and presentation of false self

Concept

Barriers to treatment for children with developmental trauma: shame and presentation of false self

shame can often result in delay of disclosing the abuse, the failure to process it and the maintenance of PTSD symptoms
the victim/child may feel like the shame is unbearable and that they need to hide it from others and themselves
the victim/child may present a false self to others in order to hide the source of the shame/emotional pain. this results in a lack of authenticity and again perpetrates the lack of disclosure.

0

1

Updated 2023-08-17

Contributors are: