By allowing Sophia to vent in a healthy way, which the program calls “draining off,” Life Space Crisis Intervention helped to get the so-called toxic thoughts out of her system. Following that, the intervention group then allowed Sophia to give her side of recent struggles so that she could feel that she was being heard instead of always attacked. This led to the identification of the central issue in Sophia’s life, which the group helped Sophia to better understand. The group then focused on helping Sophia to develop new skills that she could use to process negative thoughts and feelings. In the end, Sophia began to develop more healthily and was able to avoid carrying over her juvenile delinquency into adulthood. However, not every child is so fortunate.
Barrett, Ju, Katsiyannis and Zhang (2015) show in their study that children are at a particularly vulnerable age because they are still attempting to understand the world in which they live while also relying on those who should be caring for them to provide them with the basic necessities of life. When those who should be caring for them instead show them violence, the children can become traumatized and seek either escape from the situation or turn to a life of delinquency in order to cope with the trauma. In many cases, as Barrett et al. (2015) show, these children go on to engage in a life of crime and end up in prison in their adulthood. Their study of female prisoners showed how must of the female prison population came from unstable homes where domestic violence was a common occurrence.
Childhood trauma can manifest itself in numerous ways. Some children run away from home and, encountering a life on the streets, turn to anyone who will offer them shelter or respite from their struggles. In many cases, “help” turns out to come from someone who is simply looking to exploit the child. Children in such cases are turned into drug addicts and used as sexual slaves as prostitutes. They grow up being victimized from one place to the next, never escaping that initial trauma that was suffered as a result of their early domestic violence situation (Ekinci & Kandemir, 2015).
Giordano, Prosek, Stamman et al. (2016) show that one way to help children out of this negative feedback…
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