Recently my community has experienced some traumatic
events. Right before Christmas a young mother
was shot and killed, leaving behind a three year old. This week a 5 year old was killed during a
drive-by shooting as she put her breakfast dishes in the sink. Her 4 year old brother was in the kitchen
with her and watched his sister pass away in their home.
I have chosen to conduct by simulation research on the
effects of trauma during infancy. I
choose this topic because of the violence that plagues the community I live
in. I’m concerned about the development
of children, in particular infants, who witness or experience traumatic
events. I want to research how we can
support children who have experience such tragic events such as those our community
has experienced in the last month. My
hopes is that learning how to support these children will help break the cycle
of violence.
Through this simulation process, I have gathered several
research articles that discuss children and violence, mostly children and/or
infants who have experienced domestic violence.
Completing the research chart has help me to understand the design of
research and why one way may be choosing over the other one. I am interested and open to other research that
may help with my simulation research. At
this point, I have only used information from the Walden Library and I’m curios
if others are using just the Walden Library, use other web resources, or a
combination.
So sorry to hear about your community! Prayers are going out to your community. I am using the Walden Library. I like to used it because I feel they have more credible resources than the world wide web.
ReplyDeleteThe world around us is being so sad. You picked a great topic and I look forward to hearing more from you.
ReplyDeleteDahlia,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the tragedies affecting your community are widespread across the United States. It is sad that children have to experience such pain at an early age. I look forward to reading your research over the next several weeks.
It's not a good thing for a young child even an adult to be there when someone is being killed because of the psychological effect that the person would have and probably having a sleepless night. I usually go out of Walden Library in case I don't get enough articles.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. many don't realize or even understand the negative effects trauma can have on an infants. You are never too young to suffer directly or indirectly as a result of your environment. look forward to reading more!
ReplyDeleteRenata