This animated video was designed to help professionals working with victims of gender-based violence to understand the impacts of trauma on the brain.
This animation illustrates:
- How someone who has experienced rape or sexual assault might react in a police interview
- How a professional might respond to a service user if they do not know the effects of trauma
- How this can affect information and evidence gathering, and attitudes to victims
- How ‘secondary’ trauma can affect workers
- The three main parts of the brain and what each part does
- How the brain responds to danger – the survival instinct
- How instinctive ‘fight’, ‘flight’ and ‘freeze’ responses protect us
- Indicators of trauma
- Trauma-informed techniques for professionals to use, including a demonstration.