My counsellor recommended your book 'the boy who was raised as a dog'! I was a child in the UK in the 60's - I had the most horrendous traumatic childhood anyone could ever imagine! Sexual, physical, psychological, toxic, blaming, shaming, gaslighting - and so on - right from the very start; As a result the effects of the traumas went on throughout my whole life. I am now 63 years old and still suffer the consequences! Once you have abuse from the start there's no way of making it 'right', especially when you are 'referred' to a CMHT where the psychiatrists really have no idea about childhood trauma, and just try to 'stick as many 'disorder' labels on you as they can. Not ONE EVER asked about my childhood or early years! I now have many physical issues as well.

Dr. Bruce Perry is telling the truth, for I am an adult male that has grown up with childhood trauma and has had nothing but trouble my whole life as a result.

I have follwed Dr. Perry's work, and been appreciative of it in personal ways and also for the greater good for about twenty years. His dedication, research and advocacy for children, in my mind and heart, places him in the status of an angel on this planet. He and others like him... are needed. Many thanks for uploading this presentation.

It is painful to have the truth spoken... trauma in the first year messes with development in ways that lead to troubles for the rest of one's life... one of which can be it leaves one vulnerable for other traumas. Perpetrators recognize a disturbed child and know exactly how to take advantage of vulnerability. Yes, knowing how these things came to be can reduce the shame one feels because of the repeated struggles and self-loathing, but the hard work remains... the work of a lifetime in fact.

Hearing that the first year is so critical to healthy development is beyond what I have been saying. The first 3...5 have been my target ages.

Thank you Dr. Bruce Perry. Your insights have been really helpful.

Great Dr Bruce Perry

Dr.Perry, you're amazing!! Thank you for helping the children of the world!

Really wonderful.

Major job, care of children! Blessings to you

great presentation

My therapist recommended you. Have a lot of Early Childhood trauma that I'm trying to make sense of and how it affects my daily life that I'm just now realizing and I'm almost 30!

Brilliant, thanks for your insite. I can personally relate and working with vulnerable young people, this gives some clarity and direction and indeed validation of how I engage with the people I work with. Onwards and onwards with the development of our future generations

Thanks for the education, sir!

Thank you Dr. Perry for healing me and so many others indirectly. I am an ECSE.

great! thank you!

I consider myself a trauma survivor…. Done a lot of work to heal and deal with life. Recently I took on university at 63…. The stress around learning ….new learning…. Triggered responses…. Became emotional, couldn’t focus, hold on to learning struggled with recall, Couldn’t work it out until doing research for children I support and came across your explanations of the inner neurological functioning’s….. then the penny dropped…. Trauma never goes away but I have learnt to manage myself and situations far better. My journey continues to be an overcomer of what was done and has happened to me, Thank you…. This has helped me greatly as I go on helping children overcome what has been inflicted on them….. sadly in some cases unknowingly. Thank you

He means LOVE

I am a teacher, still, when I can find work. Ageism is alive and well here. I became a teacher when I was 6 and my wonderful grade one teacher soon realized that I had a very good I.Q. and learned faster than she could teach, so I became her teacher assistant. That probably saved my life since I was adopted AND not allowed to have friends so I could become a doctor and heal my adoptive mother. My mother was also very violent. I was found by my siblings about 3 years ago, met three, and hope to meet the others after the pandemic. The clip with Oprah, and Dr. Perry gave me tears, I am so grateful. Still lots to healing to do.

Exactly real lack of constructive working on these issues. Children must have there strengths used as a spring board for future development. And allowing the self esteem gained from those strategies. As a sense of pride and confidence

Teachers are so unaware of this

Dr. Bruce Perry, it would be great to talk with you about adverse childhood trauma and ability to function as a healthy adult. With this said, as a society how can we put more of an emphasis on the importance of parents and adults learning about child brain development, (especially first years of life) creating a supportive, safe, secure, home environment for their children to grow up in to ensure that their child has a higher chance of becoming a functioning adult in society. Humans are life in its entirety and yet our society does not focus on deeply teaching about how the the brain development is completely dependent upon childhood experiences.

Is there a way to contact Dr. Bruce Perry? I admire the work he's done, and would love for my son to be treated by him.

My 2 boys are opposites.. considering what ur saying it makes so much more since. I was reminded by my elderly neighbor at my son's graduation that she could remember how terrified my son was as soon as he could hear the daily ice cream truck . We laughed but as I think about it there were other things that stick out. On the golf team doing good. He andc2 other boys got searched for a vape pen cus the bus driver smelled it but didn't see who had it. The principal called and tried to reassure me he is not in trouble bla bla bla... well the rest of the highschool was absolutely terrible. Plus covid he is missing a few credits... after saying he was finished and walked on grad day. I'm getting g angry just thinking about it.

I'm so scared of how my mental health problems have damaged my son's brain.

I have a overwhelming urge to speak up, for the abuse our family has endured and the consequences which were so incredibly skillfully been strategically planned and implememted over decades by the psychpath in my family. My uncle has become an alc, my aunt is in psychatric treatment, my mother has heartproblems and become obese, sometime i feel to brong this torture, cheating his wife and all family members up to law... am i wrong by goin no contact and only focus on my own treatment?

What can be done for those of us who are late to this party? How do we find a path to healing.

i wish they done more for me after a 1965 road accident chasted out of the school open gates right into a passing v i p police car unconcious 30 hours of school 2 weeks kept in class room 2 weeks the day i was let back onto playground my life wasent mine i had lost the right from wrong with in months am classed out of control into to all kinds of troubles stealing fighting setting fire to a car playing with matches [ accident ] classed as behaviour personality disorders with memory loss they sent me to a childrens mental hospital on drugs straped to a bed locked in paddied room and shock treatment from there childrens homes special schools for mental retarted then assessment centres list d schools borstal training young offenders then prisons from the age of 13 under there unrully act then it was years in and out of prisons petty crimes abuse my lifes full of abuse every were i went they didnt miss me i tell tell but as it was just like the last place no one wonted to no or it didnt happen i was a mental case or in the land of no hope they just moved me on untill 1976 1977 i was just left to run the gunlet in our justice system to be treated like every one else i was in with this was me up till 1994 when my wife and good friend both had road accidents one knocked a wee boy down the other knocked a man of his bike on the same road as my 1965 road accident beteen the 2 they opened a big can of worms my head oh i was seeing houses me putting them down to houses i broke into over the years but it wasent it was places i was sent to from my accident through the years i asked my mum what was coming through my head but she told me to for get it will go away but it wasent more and more was coming back to me i went to me g p he couldnt find any thing apart from my drinking in the 1980s most times i only went into a pub becouse i loved fruit machines bandits flashing lights afew pionts of beer i did come of the rails in 1986 when my dad past away it was my dad who i done all my talking with my mum i hated her in my grown up i blamed her for were i was or she wasent there for me my sister anne was born in 1964 16 weeks premachure born 1lb 2ozs the size of a bag of suger she died 3 times on way to hospital so she made medical history the telly news papers were never away from us in 1994 i came out asking why my life was so different to my brother and sister and every one i was talking to my criminal lawyer thought i was at it or lost the plot it was my mums sister who told me about my road accident when i was 5 years old it was a high ranking police officer and i wasent right after it any more than that i would have to ask my mum so i didnt phone her this time i went to her house were we have stayed in since 1967 this time she sat me down and told me all about what hapened to me i was with her over 2 hours the longest ive ever been with her from my road accident but realy it was all starting to make sence to me i started to make phone call asking about myself and were i was getting told they would look into it the headmaster of a list d school i was in sent me a letter and copys of there records it went all the way up to me hitting the young offenders to cut all this short since 1994 theres no crime no courts no police no criminal lawyers no prisons prisons prisons today 2017 i am a brain injury survivor not a mental case or any other name you wont to through at me briangracie8@gmail.com

How can I contact Dr. ? I am suffering since long and i really need right help.

I'm working with child's of church and liked very much read the him book. I'm living in Brazil. My english ia not very good. Sorry ... Wanna more books in Portuguese or Spanish . someone help me ? ...

This is scary.

3:14- 4:35

Huh. So if a traumatized child can become neurotypically normal through exposure to consistent, predictable moderate stressors, then why doesn't a child who'd experienced developmental trauma in the first year, but not in succeeding years, do as well as those who'd had a stable first year?

3:11 min

If it starts in the home, why isn’t there more conversation about support for the parent. You speak of policies? Every time governments or bureaucracy gets involved the outcome is the worst possible version of outcomes possible. I grew up extremely poor, in a very poor town in southern New England. When DFS got formed in my area in the early nineties they were breaking families that were the best of us and ignoring the kids that needed the best of us and the best we have to give. Here we are 30 years later and it still takes them 3-6 months to respond to a call. School is not everything in my observation. It’s unpopular but personal accountability, power to the people might be the key to actual change not mandated change. It seems to me that academics is a haven for some of the most emotionally, spiritually and developmentally stunted people in a given population. They are protected from almost all of their actions and are rewarded for towing the line of policy, regardless of it being good, bad or useless. And they are going to give this support? With zero experience doing their own work on themselves? In any given population, there must be some real good, live by example people in academia, you get all of my respect and I’m glad to have met a few.

But no one remembers their first year of life? How is this useful for children that are already grown or adults??

I find it very odd that Perry was the husband of Arlis Perry who was ritually murdered in a church, and he was also the lead psychiatrist for the children after the Waco murders. He spews the government story on how Koresh claimed he was Jesus, when we know for a fact that he never claimed that. this guys whole career is sketchy.

Dr Perry concludes his address by saying we should continue to develop, improve and disseminate programs and practices that target the first years to provide consistent, predictable nurturing supports for mothers and for families. I wonder if he and his team are aware of a Canadian program promoting parent/infant attachment and stronger social relationships for parents known as the Parent-Child Mother Goose program? P-CMG is also flourishing in Australia. Drawing partly on this video, I have written a piece about Dr Perry's trauma model, and how closely his thoughts about preventing and/or curing developmental trauma fit with P-CMG here: www.parentchildmothergooseaustralia.org.au/preventing-and-healing-developmental-trauma.html

This book is amazing. I enjoy the material Oprah covers, always have. While reading this book, I realized that I'm the teacher from St A's on page 38, that worked with the young black boys in the class. I went through Bruce Perry's training at St A. I have used this understanding for over 14 years in the classroom. I even did a talk on it a few years back for Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Schools. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mK5yYLugtdCthoU.html