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Medabrim BeYahad – Parents and Children
Medabrim BeYahad provides parent-child intervention for families with infants and young children (from early infancy until 8 years old) from the Gaza envelope, Sderot, and Ofakim. Through play therapy and conversations about the difficult things they experienced, Medabrim BeYahad helps children restore their confidence in their parents and the world.
A child who spent many long hours in a safe room on October 7th, terrified, often in the dark, with gunfire and loud booms thundering in the background from time to time.
As parents, we did not always know how to explain what was going on. We did not always have the words. Through the long hours and difficult moments we weren’t always able to be there for our children in the way that we would have wanted to be, in the way they needed us to be, because we were preoccupied with the most important objective of all – protecting them.
Every child like this deserves a chance to talk through these loaded experiences with us, their parents, knowing that a conversation like this is deeply calming and therapeutic and can help a child self-regulate.
For most kids, engaging in a conversation like this is valuable and has the capacity to put them on the path toward healing and prevent the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Medabrim BeYahad provides for families with young children and infants from the Gaza envelope region who were adversely affected by the traumatic events of October 7th. We help parents talk to their kids about what happened that day, what has happened since, and what pains them and scares them. Conducting conversations like this soon after traumatic experiences is critical.
Even babies who are just a few months old, and toddlers who are only a year or two old, experienced trauma that day. These experiences impact them, and it is so important to provide for them.
At Medabrim BeYahad, we believe that every child who experienced pain and distress deserves the chance to work through these feelings, whether we can detect their emotional response to the trauma (through bedwetting, clinging to parents, expressing fear, or anxiety), or if the child seems to be completely fine.
Even very small children experience, hear and feel.
When small children experience difficult events, we parents need to help them, talk to them about what they experienced and what they feel, in order to support the continuation of a healthy mental life.
Prevention of post trauma
Strengthening the emotional dialogue between parents and children in order to allow the children to recover naturally from the trauma
You are the parents
You can help your children the best
We offer integrated treatment in which the parent participates in the process
"Today I spoke on the phone with a mother and she said that her daughter told her that she couldn't tell her everything that was bad in her heart, because then it would hurt her heart. The mother called me proudly, because this sweet girl had not spoken a word before the intervention. And the mother wanted to say Thanks to me, she felt that she knew exactly what to answer her: that it was exactly the opposite - that it would make her heart feel really good, because she feels good that her daughter is talking to her."
So this is our whole goal - to help children talk to their parents, help parents listen to them, help them talk, welcome their every emotion, make amends and ask for forgiveness for moments that were unbearable from the children's point of view, so that the children can come back and share with them. And when they share them they will allow the natural recovery process to come into action. In this way we hope that it is possible to prevent the formation of post-trauma.
What builds attachment security for a child is talking to his parent about what he feels! And this is what keeps a child emotionally safe. The parent could not protect the child from all harm, but he could protect him emotionally.