Offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress.
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Offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress.
Describes how teens may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
Describes how teens may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help.
Highlights from the 2024 NCTSN All-Network Conference (ANC) in Bethesda, Maryland!
NCTSN position statements are developed collaboratively by members of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network in response to important issues in the field.
When a child feels intensely threatened by an event he or she is involved in or witnesses, we call that event a trauma. There is a range of traumatic events or trauma types to which children and adolescents can be exposed.
Some groups of children and families are disproportionately represented among those experiencing trauma.
While many children adjust well after a death, other children have ongoing difficulties that interfere with everyday life and make it difficult to recall positive memories of their loved ones.