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Complex Trauma: Facts for Caregivers
Type: Fact Sheet
Helps parents and caregivers recognize the signs and symptoms of complex trauma and offers recommendations on how to help children heal.
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Families and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers play an essential role in helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events. These resources are for parents, adoptive parents, resource/foster parents, grandparents, caregivers, and all others who care for children and teens. The more caregivers learn about how traumatic events affect their children (whether toddler, school-age, teen, youth, or adult), the more they understand the reasons for their children’s behaviors and emotions, and the better prepared they are to help them cope. When children know that caring adults are working to keep them safe and support them in understanding their reactions to trauma, most can recover and go on to live healthy and productive lives.
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Guiding Adults in Talking to Children about Death and Attending Services
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides ways to navigate questions about death, funerals, and memorials for children. This fact sheet discusses this challenging, but manageable, task and includes sample questions and answers to help guide discussions.
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Tips for Parents on Media Coverage of a Stabbing
Type: Tip Sheet
Gives information to parents and caregivers about media coverage following a stabbing. This tip sheet describes what parents can do to help their children, media exposure after events, and talks about what it is like when a family is a part of the story.
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What You Should Expect from Treatment: Building Stronger Parent-Child Relationships
Type: Fact Sheet
Highlights the importance of parent-child relationships and how to use treatment as a way to build these relationships.
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Ready to Remember: Jeremy’s Journey of Hope and Healing
Type: Special Resource
Tells the story of a 10-year-old boy's experience following the tragic death of his father. Jeremy is having a traumatic reaction and struggling at school and at home.
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Trauma and Your Family
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers parents and caregivers information about trauma. This fact sheet defines traumatic stress and describes how common it is, how it can impact a family, and things a family can do to cope with traumatic stress.
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Sibling Death and Childhood Traumatic Grief: Information for Families
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers parents and caregivers information about particular grief reactions that a child may have when a brother or sister dies, and provides tips to help the grieving child.
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Raising Well-Behaved Kids: What Parents Should Know
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides parents and caregivers with information about disciplining children.
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Physical Punishment: What Parents Should Know
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides parents with information on the negative impact of physical punishment, and introduces parents to effective alternatives to physically disciplining their children.
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Traumatic Grief in Military Children: Information for Families
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides parents and caregivers with information about traumatic grief in military children.
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Helping Your Teen Cope with Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides information for parents and caregivers whose teen might be or is experiencing substance abuse and/or stress from a traumatic event. This fact sheet is a part Understanding the Links Between Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse: A Toolkit for Providers.
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Sibling Death and Child Traumatic Grief Additional Resources: For Caregivers
Type: Fact Sheet
Gives a list of resources for parents and caregivers who have children experiencing childhood traumatic grief. This list includes a breakdown of resources by medium type such as books or videos.