Provides foundational knowledge to better understand The 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families.
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Outlines and describes a range of points that practitioners and agencies should consider as they strive to assess, understand, and assist youth and families with children living with disabilities who have experienced trauma.
Offers information about how to work with children and use a developmental lens.
Discusses how every traumatic event is made up of traumatic moments that may include varying degrees of objective life threat, physical violation, and witnessing of injury or death.
Provides information about how traumatic events often generate secondary adversities such as family separations, financial hardship, relocations to a new residence and school, social stigma, ongoing treatment for injuries, physical rehabilitation,
Offers a bulleted version of the 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families.
Provides an overview of child traumatic stress and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Updated October 2024.
Offers guidance on talking with children and youth when scary things happen.
Offers guidance on talking with teens when violence happens. This fact sheet includes information on checking in with yourself, clarifying your goal, providing information and options, reflection, asking helpful questions, going slow, labeling emotions, validating, and monitoring media and social media exposure.
Offers guidance on creating supportive environments for youth when scary things happen. This fact sheet includes information on routines, rhythm, and rituals.