Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma
How it all got started
It wasn’t exactly what we planned for the spring of 2020. Already, life wasn’t very typical, given that we were living in a multi-generational home. Isolating with an eleven- and fifteen-year-old while their mother continued working took atypical to a whole new level. And when our governor (Washington State) took the necessary step of closing schools for five weeks,
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in ATN News, Our Voices
Every caring adult can make a difference in a child’s life
At the Attachment and Trauma Network (ATN),we hear many stories about parents, teachers, therapists, and other individuals making a difference in children’s lives. It inspired us to choose the theme #OneCaringAdult for our #GivingTuesday campaign.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in CTSS Conference, Our Voices
How much do you know about ATN? As a new member of the Attachment and Trauma Network Board of Directors, I have discovered some amazing things. I knew some of this from joining ATN two years ago and speaking at the first two Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conferences.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in ATN News, Attachment, Education, Events, Our Voices, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools
[N]ext week, I will speak for the second time at the Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference, where my topic will be “Behavior through the Lens of Attachment, Trauma, and Dissociation.”
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Book Reviews, Our Voices, Trauma
When I talk about BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, I sense assumptions from the outset. They are understandable – after all, the title says it’s about childhood trauma, right? Yet at the same time, I want to laugh and say, “Could you just read the book before you make up your mind?” This might seem slightly paranoid… but I once received a list of interview questions written by someone who clearly hadn’t read BRAVE.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma
[warning – this post briefly references an act of sexual assault]
In her response to BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, Laura Dennis, ATN blog manager, asked me to address the following:
“There are (at least) 2 kinds of being brave.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Attachment, Education, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools
–by Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
The teacher and I exchanged knowing looks as a kindergartener flung herself across the table, scattering crayons and paper in every direction. We understood that intervening at this moment would only make it worse, although it probably was going to get worse anyway.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools
–by Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
“It’s just me.”
That’s what I used to think about my behavior, including when I myself was a student.
Then I began to learn. My growing understanding of the effects of trauma on children and how they learn has come from several sources.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Book Reviews
–by Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Manager’s note: A few years ago, I started buying my kids’ Christmas gifts to the mantra “something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read.” Here are some ideas for the “read” part. Look for other ideas soon,
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Posted in Our Voices, Trauma
–by Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
It was inexplicable. I was a twenty-seven-year-old wife and mother of an infant, and I had just left the family gathering and thrown myself on the floor kicking and screaming. My husband was standing over me with a compassionate but perplexed look on his face.
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