- 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.

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 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. 


Childhood Traumatic Stress: Treatment

Thompson, R.A. (2014). Stress and child development. The Future of Children, 24(1). www.futureofchildren.org. 

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