- Create a consistent and supportive environment that minimizes threats
- Foster warm and responsive relationship between children and the adults in their lives. 
- Put focus on strengthening and mastering  the child's executive functioning skills.

Childhood Traumatic Stress: Ways to Foster Positive Development 

 While childhood traumatic stress symptoms can alter the brain, neuroimaging has shown that receiving psychotherapy for PTSD as adults can help to correct and modify brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. 


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 Neuroimaging allows for the development of evidence based clinical interventions for individuals who experienced traumatic stress during childhood. It can also help to determine which forms of treatment work best by looking at changes in biological markers in the brain. This can help psychologists to understand which impairments to the brain are reversible and the type of intervention that best reverses them as well as predict how well someone will respond to a specific treatment. 


Childhood Traumatic Stress: Neuroimaging Implications 

Carrion, V.G. & Wong, S.S. (2012). Can traumatic stress alter the brain? Understanding the implications of early trauma on brain development and learning. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.04.010.

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