DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA AND ATTACHMENT PROGRAM (DTAP)

Healthcare services in the nature of treatment for children suffering from the effects of severe abuse, trauma, and neglect, namely, a treatment framework that recognizes and respects the biology of the brain and the entire body along with the impact trauma has on these systems and works progressively to first address more primitive fears exhibited by lower brain regions such as fight flight freeze response with an awareness that body and sensory based therapies are often the most effective way to begin work with severely traumatized children, secondly, to address the limbic system of the brain by working on emotional regulation, and finally offering talking and cognitive based therapies