Your Brain: Explaining Fight or Flight to Kids

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Your Brain: Explaining Fight or Flight to Kids

15 page, easy to understand narrative, that helps children and teens understand how their brain works, and what the fight or flight instinct is. This tool is useful for psychoeducation.

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What's covered

This is an overview of what's covered within the narrative, along with some photo samples.

First the printable explains that different parts of our brain have their own jobs. It highlights some important areas of the brain then briefly describes what that part of the brain does.

This includes how all the areas of the brain work together, and covers the prefrontal cortex (thinking brain) and the amygdala (where fight or flight is activated)

Then describes how if you're in danger, overwhelmed, or really upset, and the thinking brain isn't able to do it's job, the amygdala takes over.

When the amygdala takes over, the prefrontal cortex is "locked away"

It explains some of the behaviors that happen during fight or flight, and how a person may feel like they have no control over their actions.

Lastly, the text explains that this can happen to everyone. It's a natural brain response.

The text goes on to say that the more skills the thinking brain has, the less often it feels like it can't do its job, and then the fight or flight instinct doesn't take over as often.

The last page is a list of skills you can "teach" your thinking brain to help it get better at it's job.