Childhood Trauma Treatment Plan 

Goals

• Develop an awareness of how childhood issues have affected and continue to affect one's family life.

• Resolve past childhood/family issues, leading to less anger and depression, greater self-esteem, security, and confidence.

• Release the emotions associated with past childhood/family issues, resulting in less resentment and more serenity.

• Let go of blame and begin to forgive others for pain caused in childhood.

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Behavioral Definitions

• Reports of childhood physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse.

• Description of parents as physically or emotionally neglectful as they were chemically dependent, too busy, absent, etc.

• Description of childhood as chaotic as parent(s) was substance abuser (or mentally ill, antisocial, etc.), leading to frequent moves, multiple abusive spousal partners, frequent substitute caretakers, financial pressures, and/or many stepsiblings.

• Reports of emotionally repressive parents who were rigid, perfectionist, threatening, demeaning, hypercritical, and/or overly religious.

• Irrational fears, suppressed rage, low self-esteem, identity conflicts, depression, or anxious insecurity related to painful early life experiences.

• Dissociation phenomenon (multiple personality, psychogenic fugue or amnesia, trance state, and/or depersonalization) as a maladaptive coping mechanism resulting from childhood emotional pain.

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Diagnoses

• Dysthymic Disorder

• Major Depressive Disorder

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Sexual Abuse of Child, Victim

• Physical Abuse of Child, Victim

• Neglect of Child, Victim

• Antisocial Personality Disorder

• Dependent Personality Disorder

• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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