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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Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.
Describes child and adolescent trauma exposure and psychosocial functioning among NCTSN care recipients in residential care.
Outlines practice examples for continuity of care and collaboration across systems, a vital activity for youth involved in multiple service systems.
Details the importance of a holistic, multidisciplinary, multi-level approach to addressing the needs of youth with complex trauma in residential treatment settings.
Discusses how child-serving systems can improve their response to the needs of youth that cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice.
Reports findings from research on crossover youth.
Discusses findings from research on crossover youth and how traumatic stress plays a role in the trajectory of crossover youth, as well as implications for policy and practice.
Provides information for staff in residential treatment centers on how to understand behavior through a trauma lens.
Discusses the importance of quality supervision that organizations can provide to staff members at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS).