Managing Traumatic Events with your Child/ren

Following the events of the weekend, your child/ren may ask questions ? To help, there are a couple of fact sheets from CAMHS in relation to trauma. They appear at the end of this blogpost. As they are quite large, it may help to open them in a new Tab if asked.

How to help a child who has witnessed a traumatic event:

Ensure children/adolescent are safe and that their basic needs are met
Allow them to be sad and cry
Let them talk, write, draw pictures about the event and their feelings and validate their feelings
Limit their exposure to repetitive news reports about the traumatic event/s.

Here are some numbers that can be helpful;