The Ethics Project

For decades treatment of disruptive, even violent behavior, involved electrical shock, surgery, confinement, and psychotropic drugs. Largely experimental, the outcomes were ineffective at best and life alterring at worst.

Today, evidence has proven that the abnormal development of the brain in infancy or childhood due to trauma, can be reversed through cognitive behavioral intervention and developing trusting relationships with adults.

Treating trauma through punitive measures is not only ineffective, it punishes the most wounded, neglected, abused, and traumatized among us and negatively impacts an entire community.

Thank you to everyone who sacrificed and supported The Ethics Project on GiveSTL Day.
You understand the importance of giving the proper tools to professionals and others who interact with traumatized children. Understanding behavior, healing damaged brains is the only path to undoing the harn caused by an overly punitive society.