The following resources on child trauma were developed by the NCTSN. To find a specific topic or resource, enter keywords in the search box, or filter by resource type, trauma type, language, or audience.
Outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them. Translated in 2023.
Provides an overview of child traumatic stress and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Updated October 2024.
Explores the importance, clinical considerations, and approaches to assess for psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress in youth in the juvenile justice population. This fact sheet addresses challenges that are unique to assessment within the juvenile justice environment.
Describes evidence-informed interventions for youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
Gives details about the growing number of girls in the juvenile justice system.
Outlines and describes a range of points that practitioners and agencies should consider as they strive to assess, understand, and assist youth and families with children living with disabilities who have experienced trauma.
Provides information for caregivers on choosing trauma-informed care for children with IDD.
Offers guidance on the importance of taking care of oneself while parenting children with IDD.
Outlines what responses to trauma could look like in children with IDD.
Offers parents and caregivers information to help support their children after the loss of a family member due to homicide.
Provides an understanding of why it is important to talk to children about hate-based violence against AAPI communities, how to recognize signs of traumatic stress and its impact, how to begin a conversation with youth about anti-AAPI hate, and what can be done in response.