What to Do When Tragedy Impacts Your Family II
Everyone faces “why God?” moments in life — painful, difficult circumstances that you don’t expect. Grief counsellor, Dr. H. Norman Wright, ...
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What to Do When Tragedy Impacts Your Family II
Everyone faces “why God?” moments in life — painful, difficult circumstances that you don’t expect. Grief counsellor, Dr. H. Norman Wright, ...
What to Do When Tragedy Impacts Your Family I
Everyone faces “why God?” moments in life — painful, difficult circumstances that you don’t expect. Grief counsellor, Dr. H. Norman Wright, ...
Helping Overcome Traumatic Experiences
Mark Bateman is a motorsports Chaplain with Sports Chaplaincy Australia. Also, he specialises in responding to critical incidents and disasters in ...
How to help your kids process tragic news
We parents are forced to help our families manoeuvre tragic news more and more often. Consider the news we hear about every day and their impacts; ...
Defining and Understanding Trauma
Not all traumatic experiences are equal, but the way the body reacts to trauma is similar in every situation. Two broad categories might be called ...
Recovering Emotionally from a Traumatic Experience
Question How can I find healing from the effects of disaster and trauma? Over the past month our community has been devastated by a terrible flood. ...
Psychological Trauma: How it impacts children and what you can do
Your child’s life may not be going the way they want it to. They may have even gone through something horrible and tragic. Let them know God ...
The impact of family violence on children
The term family violence refers to violent or abusive behaviour in the home directed toward one or more persons. In Australia, the Australian Bureau ...
Reaching out to Victims of Trauma and Disaster: What churches can do to help
(Developed in Response to Floods in Queensland, Australia) Almost every day large numbers of people around the world are affected by events that ...
Talking to kids about mass violence
“What happened? Why are they sad?” asked 5 year old Scarlett. Tara and Jason were startled by their daughter’s question. Normally their two ...
When your spouse struggles with past trauma
Karen and Frank walked into my office and plopped onto my chesterfield couch. Karen curled up in one corner with a pillow hugged close to her chest. ...
Helping teens caught in mass violence
My eyes were scratchy-tired, and I couldn’t stop yawning. Why had I volunteered to take my girls to a midnight movie? “I can drive them since ...