Understanding 'offers abuse survivors hope' - Australia

Chris Engel 2/28/135:00 PM

"CHILD abuse survivors can develop heightened perception and intuition due to their trauma, Launceston community workers have heard.

"Pyschotherapist Dragan Wright yesterday explained the heightened sense of awareness could arise as a survival instinct.

"Those parts of the brain can actually be more developed because you're living on your senses, you're living on your intuition, you're surviving on that,'' he said.

"Mr Wright, from Adults Surviving Child Abuse, will spend two days in Launceston training community and health workers how to be ``trauma informed''. He said understanding child trauma was important because it was very likely to manifest during adulthood...."

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1333876/understanding-offers-abuse-survivors-hope/?cs=12

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