"I think it’s important for us to look at children and youth when they’re impacted by a parent who has an operational stress injury because we know that trauma can be bidirectional in that when one person in a family is impacted by post traumatic stress, that anxiety becomes quite contagious within a family system"
About the author
Helena Hawryluk is a Registered Social Worker and Co-Founder of Families First: Support for Occupational Stress Inc. and Director of Warrior Kids program with Wounded Warriors Canada. Jerris Popik is the co-developer of the Warrior Kids Programs and co-founder of Families First: Support for Occupational Stress. Injuries Inc.