Ministry Division of Child Psycho-spiritual Trauma
Do Children Experience Trauma?
Absolutely! Children experience trauma all over the world everyday. There are the natural traumas brought on by floods, famines, fires, disease, the death of a parent, or a sibling. Children encounter social upheaval, violence brought on by war, and divorce everyday. Children are traumatized by verbal, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect and abadonment daily. These are but a few of the assaults that children may encounter during the first 10 years of thier lives that impact their adult lives for years.
What Is Trauma?
We define trauma from a Christian psycho-spiritual perspective because it impacts the body, soul, and spirit of the triune human being. God created all of us as triunue beings with a soul (intellect, will, and emotions), physical body like a house or shell to dwell in, and a spirit that is immortal. Trauma is a continual, sudden evasive and invasive intrusion into the security of their life; thereby, interrupting the wholeness and stability of their entire triune being. The Bible clearly states that when God created Adam in book of Genesis, He created him body, soul, and spirit. Adam was a spirit being clothed in flesh and equipped with a highly sophisticated communication system that enables him to relate to both the physical and spiritual domains.
Primary Sources of Trauma
There are common sources of childhood trauma that can be identified in populations of children. Some of the more prevalent sources of trauma are:
1. Divorce of parents
2. Death of a parent
3. Accidents
4. Personal violence
5. Continual rejection
6. Physical abuse
7. Sexual abuse
8. Emotional abuse
9. Neglect and/or abandonment
10. Witness to acts of violence or disaster
11. Natural disasters
12. Parental perfectionism
13. Performance-based parental nurturing
14. Separation from primary caregivers
15. Repeated failure of expected performance
16. Sibling rejection
17. Unstable home environment
Symptoms of Childhood Trauma
Want To Know YOUR Personal Impact Score? You can ask yourself how many of the common characteristics listed below apply to your child's life. Just answer YES to each one that applies. See how many YES answers you indicate. Then, count the 'total number' of YES answers. Any score above 80% is a strong indicator that your child may suffer subsconsciously from soul-trauma.
1. Apparent pervasive sadness
2. Withdrawn or isolationist
3. Demonstration of chronic fears
4. Unusual clinging and smothering of caregivers
5. Crying and frequent tantrums
6. Various forms of expressed aggression
7. Control obsessions of others
8. Overactive and/or hyper-vigilant
9. Behavioral and/or emotional regression
10. Increased complaints of illness and pains
11. Demonstrative anxiety
12. Behavioral changes
13. Loss of appetite
14. School performance difficulties
15. Invasive nightmares
16. Increased irritability
17. Anger outbursts
18. Acts of violence
19. Overeating
20. Addictions
IMPACT INDICATOR
If you said YES to 14 -15 out of 20 YOUR SCORE is 70-75%. You scored in the borderline impact range and should assess areas of current struggles in your life.
If you said YES to 16 -17 out of 20 YOUR SCORE is 80-85%. You scored in the moderate range and should look into getting psycho-spiritual help for self-destructive programming.
If you said YES to 18 + of 20 YOUR SCORE is above 90%. Your score suggest that you are currently being impacted in several areas of your life and you should seek competent assistance for trauma-based soul bondage.
(If you score 80% or above you should consider seeking immediate competent help).
Ministry Services We Provide
We provide family oriented ministry, not counseling. We specialized as a research organization and our specialty is in the domain of the soul-spirit interrelationship of the child, not just the behavior of the child. Unlike traditional approaches, we understand that the human soul interacts through the body and is energized by the 'spirit' person in accordance with Bible's principles. We do not merely teach biblical principles; rather, we apply foundational truths to the entire child's body, soul, and spirit.
Here are some of the specialized services that we offer for children who have experienced significant trauma:
1. A Discovery Profile evaluation that evaluates the family dynamics of the child within the family unit.
2. A holistic ministry approach under the guidance of Lawrence Stanfield, Ph.D., M.S., B.Th. He offers years of specialized training and experience as a learning disabilities teacher and specialist, was the founder of a reading foundation for highly dysfunctional readers, he created one of Florida's first pediatric re-entry head trauma educational models, and he held state of Florida certification in case management for the family services division for crisis intervention for Health and Rehabilitative Services.
3. A comprehensive ministry approach to locating and healing self-destructive programming (belief systems) that operate dysfunctional behaviors and emotions.
4. A ministry healing plan to assist the entire family with healing from early childhood trauma that is causing family disunity and daily crisis.
5. A unique and highly effective program that disengages self-destructive behaviors and attitudes that so often generates unacceptable behaviors and mindsets that sabotage our well-being.
(Plus much, much more!)
GSA Is A Support Ministry
Ministry services from Global Strategic Alliance International Trauma Center are not intended to replace the services of organizations like Alcohol Anonymous or other similar organizations. Rather, it provides still another support service for those adults of alcoholic families who still struggle with unacceptable self-destructive lifestyles.
Contact Us Today
For more information regarding this ministry, please email us at: (FreeIndeedQuestions@Comcast.Net)