Building Resilience: Helping Heal Children from Adversity

By Kelly Wright, MD, FAAP

This presentation honors the importance of having safe, nurturing relationships in a child’s life to mitigate trauma-impact.

Trauma Training Takeaways: Resiliency is a complex word that reflects a lot of the strength found in nature to overcome adverse and hostile conditions. Resiliency in people is a beautiful word that is often used to share how the powerful impact that having positive, healthy people in one’s life can mitigate trauma impact. However, resilience can be misaligned to children who are not showing signs of trauma impact due to basking or being in survival mode. It’s important in working with children and teens that we don’t assume resiliency, but be on the side of becoming one more safe person for them in their world.