The intergenerational impact on the development of trauma in gifted children

Balanced research and practice

There seems to be an increase of parents of gifted children reporting their child has trauma or PTSD for which full responsibility is placed onto the school. Research in the field of attachment and trauma in general states that trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next in various ways and trauma in children is much more common than perceived. Since trauma is often missed in children misdiagnosis is common and many children do not get the proper treatment. Hardly any research is to be found regarding trauma and attachment in gifted children, therefore it is not known how common or uncommon this is and what impact it might have on the development of gifted children. It seems unlikely though, that gifted children are not affected by trauma and insecure attachment.