Triumphing over Trauma: Equipping Parents to Understand and Counsel Children from Traumatic Backgrounds

Abstract

Traumatic experiences drastically shape a child’s worldview and can leave parents and counselors wondering how to respond. Trust Based Relational Intervention is a behavioral system that provides valuable practicality to parents. However, it does have a biblical view of God and man to which parents can align their responses and correction. Jeremy Pierre’s dynamic heart perspective of human experience provides an explanation of who children are, how they are influenced, and why they think, feel, and choose the ways they do. Merging the dynamic heart perspective with some of TBRI’s practicality will help parents understand how their children are created in the image of God and how they can live in the power of the Holy Spirit to triumph through trauma.