Adults are not the only ones affected by domestic violence.  Children are often the “forgotten” victims of family violence.  More children are injured each year in domestic violence situations than in playground accidents.  Creative Resolution Group has extensive experience working with the batterer, adult, and child victims. In order for families to heal from the trauma of domestic violence, children need to be included in counseling. Children who witness domestic violence are more likely to be involved in abusive relationships as adolescents and adults.  Let Creative Resolution Group help break the cycle of violence in your family.

Below are only some the ways your children may be impacted by domestic violence.

Ages birth-2 

• Easily startled
• Feeding/eating problems
• Failure to thrive
• Sleep disturbances
• Nightmares
• Difficult to soothe
• Excessive separation anxiety

Ages 3-5

• Excessive separation anxiety
• Clingy to mother
• Fear and anxiety
• Inability to develop friendships
• Mute
• Eating problems
• Bed wetting/enuries/encopreisi
• Nightmares
• Low self-esteem
• Inability to display emotions appropriately
• Withdrawn
• Self-abusing(head banging, picking at skin, pulling hair)

Ages 6-11

• Bed wetting/enuries/encopreisi
• Nightmares
• Fighting
• Lack of social skills
• Inability to maintain friendships
• Withdrawn
• Depression
• Anger
• Bullies others
• Mute
• Eating problems
• Attempts to protect Mother
• Identifies with Father
• Overly submissive
• Clingy
• Difficulty expressing/identifying emotions
• Self-injuries(Cutting)
• Risk taking
• Poor grades
• Problems with authority
  
  12 and up
  Sexual acting outSelf injurious
  Eating disorders
  Mute
  Disassociation
  Inability to focus
  Attention seeking
  Overly submissive
  Clingy/extreme separation anxiety
  Poor grades/drop out
  Substance abuse
  Violent crimes
  Blames Mother for violence
  Identifies with Father
  Run away