Childhood Trauma: Confinement
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A typically developing 10-year-old becomes trapped, unable to move, in an inaccessible location. It takes rescuers over 10 hours to find and rescue the child from the location.
a) Discuss how the child cognitively and emotionally responds during the confinement
i) from Piaget's sensorimotor perspective
ii) from Erickson's psychosocial perspective
b) Discuss how this experience may affect the child as he/she ages through childhood and into adulthood.
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Confinement & Development
Traumatic events in childhood are profound in that they can impact development. According to Perry (2003), "Traumatic experiences can have a devastating impact on the child, altering their physical, emotional, cognitive and social development." When trauma happens, it points to an overwhelming amount of stress that the individual affected find it hard to cope and integrate emotion with what was experienced. In this case, the event points to a 10-year-old getting trapped and in so doing made immobile in a place that is difficult to access. As such, the rescuers take around 10 hours to get to the child to and rescue him. This meant the child is immobile and alone in those 10 hours, where the child is solitary and confined and unknowing of the possibility of being freed. Without human contact, with the ability to move - one feels imprisoned, alone and develops feelings of hopelessness. The 10 hours spent enduring this will weigh heavily on the psyche especially if the child is social, trusting and has a positive social relationship with people around him.
At the age of 10, the child is at concrete operational stage (McLeod, 2010) ...
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