Introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector.
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Highlights the need for clinicians and policy makers to understand the links between trauma and culture.
Discusses the complexity of children's reaction to and processing of traumatic events.
Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
Details information about interventions for children exposed to violence. This is a chapter in the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute report Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence.
Provides an overview of child traumatic stress and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Updated September 2023
Presents three experienced clinician-researchers in the field of child traumatic stress highlighting the developmental impact of child trauma on early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
Offers a look at how the NCTSN has impacted the children and families it serves. This video includes snippets of Network members talking about being a part of the Network and how it has changed the work they do with children.
Offers information about how to work with children and use a developmental lens.
Beyond the ACE Score: Perspectives from the NCTSN on Child Trauma and Adversity Screening and Impact
Provides an overview of the concepts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood trauma, highlights the gaps that remain in our understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on mental and physical health...