The 12 Core Concepts provide essential guidance for professionals working with children and families affected by trauma.
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The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) is a professional development program that builds trauma-informed, healing-centered skills for working with children and families.
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.
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When a child feels intensely threatened by an event they are 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.