Helping Children in the Child Welfare System Heal from Trauma: A Systems Integration Approach
Presents the results of a survey conducted among child welfare agencies in a number of states.
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Presents the results of a survey conducted among child welfare agencies in a number of states.
Describes the mental health issues for refugee children in resettlement.
Summarizes findings from a survey done by the NCTSN Refugee Working Group Sites in 2004.
Brinda información sobre el estrés traumático infantil, explica cómo el peligro se convierte en trauma y como responder al trauma después de que ocurre.
Looks at parenting concerns, with the help of scenes from the documentary film Surviving September 11th: The story of One New York Family. The guide and film address a terrorist attack.
Features a first-person narrative illustrating how a family can move through the pain of loss and go on to heal. The family shares their personal experiences of the traumatic grief experienced by one daughter after her sister's sudden death.
Presenta una narrativa en primera persona que ilustra cómo una familia puede pasar por el dolor de la pérdida y llegar a sanar. La familia comparte sus experiencias personales del duelo traumático experimentado por una hija, después de la muerte repentina de su hermana.
Includes a segment from the play Children of War and a documentary about the scope and impact of refugee trauma and its consequences for youth in schools.
Accompanies the Children of War video and includes discussion questions, suggestions about ways schools and teachers can help refugee students and families, and provides information on the effects of traumatic stress on school performance.
Highlights the need for clinicians and policy makers to understand the links between trauma and culture.
Provides background on the issues of trauma among homeless children, including what homelessness looks like in America, the interplay between trauma and homelessness, how programs and services help families exposed to trauma, and providing trauma-specific services.
Accompanies The Courage to Remember video that presents critical core components of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for children who suffer from childhood traumatic grief.