Ett livslångt lidande. De professionellas upplevelser om uppväxtvillkorens påverkan på traumahantering

Sammanfattning: This study aim to explore how the conditions of an individual's childhood may affect their coping with trauma. The individuals represented in this study, for the purpose to explore coping with trauma, are individuals grown up under insufficient childhood conditions. This study is based on the assumption that childhood conditions, are a factor of influence on coping with trauma, in a greater extent than it is understood and given credit for in todays society. Our result shows that there is an obvious correlation between insufficient childhood conditions and destructive coping with trauma. There is a need of larger general awareness that an individuals resources for coping with trauma is affected by the conditions growing up. A larger awareness of the affect that conditions growing up, have on coping with trauma, could benefit preventive cause of actions in cases of children having insufficient conditions growing up. This can further develop into better conditions coping with trauma for the individual actually experiencing trauma. If the society pays attention to children at the right time, it could save the child from a lifelong suffering.