Traumatic Separation in Children and Adolescents
Describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents.
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Describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents.
Depicts a father who has been physically violent in the past becoming intensely verbally angry, frightening and emotionally alienating to his son.
Provides clinicians, counselors, and other providers with insights on dealing with the most difficult crises and turning points that occur in therapy with traumatized children and families.

Ensures that organization leadership has basic knowledge of implementation science principles, understands their role, and has the capacity and skill to play that role is critical in any implementation collaborative.
Offers information about refugee arrivals in the U.S. and refugee mental health needs and best practices.

Provides information on why conducting a trauma-informed mental health assessment is important for those working in a CAC. This fact sheet looks at what an evidence-based assessment is, some of the instruments available, and what symptoms to look for when doing an assessment.

Gives information on family engagement, why its important, the potential barriers to engaging a family, specific strategies for engagement, and how MDT partners can be involved in family engagement.

Gives an overview of implementing evidence-based treatment at a CAC.

Discusses the differences between offering mental health services on site at a CAC versus partnering with other organizations to provide care.

Discusses why it is important to measure the quality of a CAC's mental health component. This fact sheet looks at ways to measure quality, how a CAC can use metrics to monitor quality, and how a CAC can use conversation to monitor quality.

Looks at the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and case management monitoring as a component of treatment completion.

Gives a list of screening tools that are appropriate for use in a CAC.