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Overview of the 12 Core Concepts
Type: e-Learning Course
Helps learners to create a trauma lens through which they can view and better comprehend the effects of traumatic experiences and losses.
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All NCTSN Resources
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.
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Trauma Training for Early Childhood (TTEC)
Type: e-Learning Course
Is an interactive course that provides core concepts on trauma and young children in 15–20-minute lesson segments.
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TOOLCIT Curriculum for Learning Collaborative Facilitators
Type: e-Learning Course
Supports NCTSN sites as they implement, spread, and sustain evidence-based treatments, practices, interventions, and system changes to organizations that serve children and families who have experienced trauma.
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Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) Orientation and Fundamentals
Type: e-Learning Course
Orients you to the approach used in AF-CBT and to prepare you for an AF-CBT training. Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment designed to improve the relationships...
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Not Lost in Translation: The Clinician-Interpreter Dyad in the Mental Health Setting
Type: e-Learning Course
Is designed to increase the capacity and partnership of professional interpreters and mental health clinicians working together in order to improve quality and access of services for children, adolescents and families with no or limited English proficiency (LEP) and who have experienced trauma...
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National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) 101 Online Course
Type: e-Learning Course
Provides information on what makes the NCTSN unique, and why in 2001 SAMHSA established the NCTSN in an effort to pull together expertise nationwide and create a mechanism for intentional collaboration to move scientific gains quickly into practice.
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Primeros Auxilios Psicológicos
Type: e-Learning Course
Los Primeros Auxilios Psicológicos constituyen un enfoque modular basado en la evidencia y cuyo objetivo es ayudar a niños, adolescentes, adultos y familias a afrontar las consecuencias inmediatas de desastres o actos de terrorismo.
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Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) Online
Type: e-Learning Course
Aims to help survivors gain skills to manage distress and cope with post-disaster stress and adversity. This course utilizes skills-building components from mental health treatment that have been found helpful in a variety of post-trauma situations.
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Trauma and Development: How to Think Development
Type: e-Learning Course
Offers information about how to work with children and use a developmental lens.
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Attachment Vitamins: Interactive Course on Early Childhood Attachment, Stress, and Trauma
Type: e-Learning Course
Helps learners support children and families through the early years of a child’s life and development.
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Child Advocacy Center (CAC) Directors' Guide to Quality Mental Healthcare
Type: e-Learning Course
Helps Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) directors deliver the highest quality care to children and families.
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Learning Series on Implementation
Type: e-Learning Course
Focuses on three different and critical components of effective implementation. This series provides information on the framework, readiness preparation, and sustainability as it relates to effective implementation.