Wherever Healthcare Providers encounter children and families--whether in a clinic, hospital ER, school, or at a private outpatient practice--there are opportunities to integrate trauma-informed practices into the care families receive. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has developed tools and materials to help physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals understand and respond to the specific needs of traumatized children. In addition to the NCTSN resources highlighted below, Healthcare Providers can learn more about trauma-informed integrated care in the Trauma-Informed Care section of this website.
Provides tips for medical professionals on how to assess a family of ill or injured children and how to help their families.
Offers information about distress, emotional support, and working with families after a medical trauma. These reference cards are a way to quickly screen if a parent, caregiver, or child is at risk for ongoing traumatic stress reactions after a medical procedure or trauma.
Provides information to youth about how to talk about medical trauma with others. This tip sheet, a part of the Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress Toolkit, includes a scenario to read that describes how therapy helped the youth in the story.
Provides children with information and activities to help cope with pain after an injury, illness, or medical stay.
Describes what comprehensive care for children in the child welfare system looks like.
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 medical providers with information about traumatic grief in military children.
Synthesizes research and clinical knowledge about typical brain development and the high impact that the stress response has on the developing brain. This webinar highlights the clinical application for clinicians and other professionals who work with traumatized children.
Provides staff in child-serving systems with best practices for trauma screening.
Is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in STS cross-disciplinary version.
Offers information to providers about the impact of traumatic medical events.
Helps parents and caregivers understand children's reactions to injuries, and advises them on how they can help children respond in healthy ways.