Each child grieves the death of a significant person in his or her own way. Reactions can vary according to age, ability to understand death, and personality, and children in the same family may react differently.
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The experience of trauma takes away choice and control. The trauma-informed healing environment maximizes opportunities for choice and control.
A trauma-informed child and family service system is one in which all parties involved recognize and respond to the impact of traumatic stress.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), also referred to as domestic violence, occurs when an individual purposely causes harm or threatens the risk of harm to any past or current partner or spouse.
The DERS is a brief, 36-item, self-report questionnaire designed to assess multiple aspects of emotion dysregulation. The measure yields a total score as well as scores on six scales derived through factor analysis.
NCTSN.org is a resource for the public, professionals, and others who care about children and are concerned about child traumatic stress.
Due to the particular developmental risks associated with young children's traumatic experiences, it is essential that vulnerable children be identified as early as possible after the trauma.
Events that refugees have experienced related to war or persecution can all be called “traumatic events.”
The WBR was developed to assess common problem behaviors experienced by sexually abused children. It allows for assessment of the types of behavior problems endorsed and number of discrete episodes.
Semi-structured caregiver report measure used to assess PTSD in children 0-7 years of age.