Bruce D. Perry quotes:
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More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.
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It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
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Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.
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The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
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We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.
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Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.
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Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.
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The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
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Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love