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.
Offers guidance on creating supportive environments for youth when scary things happen. This fact sheet includes information on routines, rhythm, and rituals.
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 talking with children and youth when scary things happen.
Offers gentle reminders for well-being practices in times of stress. This fact sheet includes information on welcoming the body's stress response, completing the stress cycle, connection & relationship, emotion skills & practices, and mindfulness & attention.
Offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event. Translated 2022.
Offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event.
Offers parents and caregivers information about traumatic separation and reunification, including what traumatic experiences are, how children react to trauma, and ways to heal.
Provides information for family members and caregivers who are trying to decide whether or not to serve on advisory boards.
Provides caregivers guidance about how to address fears and feelings of prior losses that are coming up during COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on loss and trauma reminders, coping with separation, and the mind body connection.
Provides caregivers guidance about how to address the impending death of a loved one due to COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on anticipating a death, preparing a child for the death, and saying goodbye.
Provides caregivers guidance on mourning a death of a loved one due to COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on saying goodbye when you couldn't be there, understanding developmental differences in behaviors associated with grief, and seeking alternative support if needed.
Ayuda a los padres y cuidadores a abordar las inquietudes y preocupaciones de sus hijos en cuanto a la pandemia de COVID-19 y las perturbaciones experimentadas en su vida normal.
Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/creating-supportive-environments-when-scary-things-happen
[2] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/talking-to-teens-when-difficult-things-happen
[3] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/talking-to-youth-when-scary-things-happen
[4] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/well-being-practices-gentle-reminders-for-times-of-stress
[5] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/after-a-crisis-helping-young-children-heal-ro
[6] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/after-crisis-helping-young-children-heal-da
[7] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/understanding-trauma-what-to-expect-when-you-are-reunited-with-your-child
[8] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/family-members-caregivers-things-to-consider-before-serving-on-advisory-boards
[9] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/power-of-parenting-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-addressing-fears-and-feelings-from-prior-losses
[10] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/power-of-parenting-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-helping-children-cope-with-the-impending-death-of-a-loved-one
[11] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/power-of-parenting-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-mourning-the-death-of-a-loved-one
[12] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/como-ayudar-a-los-ninos-a-lidiar-con-la-pandemia-de-COVID-19
[13] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898
[14] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=10
[15] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=4
[16] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=5
[17] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=6
[18] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=7
[19] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=8
[20] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=9
[21] https://www.nctsn.org/print/898?page=12