Defines child traumatic stress. This fact sheet gives an overview of trauma, describes traumatic stress symptoms, and ways children may be impacted.
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Offers best practice recommendations and clinical guidelines for working with children and families who have experienced serious illness or injury.
Offers activity ideas to parents and caregivers whose families are sheltering in place, evacuating their homes, or social distancing due to any type of disaster or event.
Provides information to children who have experienced medical trauma.
Helps parents and caregivers understand children's reactions to injuries, and advises them on how they can help children respond in healthy ways.
Provides information to youth about how to talk about medical trauma with others.
Provides policymakers and other stakeholders an overview of trauma-informed integrated care and its importance for children who have experienced trauma.
Offers information about distress, emotional support, and working with families after a medical trauma.
Offers information to providers about the impact of traumatic medical events.
Provides a brief overview of medical traumatic stress, the D-E-F protocol (Reduce Distress, Promote Emotional Support, and Remember the Family) and traumatic stress reactions.