Schools and Trauma
Focuses on partnering with schools to enhance mental health and trauma-informed services designed to inform both school personnel and mental health professionals about the impact of traumatic events.
The NCTSN has produced dozens of webinar series, comprised of virtual presentations by expert researchers and practitioners, on various topics in the field of child traumatic stress. Most webinars are from 60 to 90 minutes in length and are available for continuing education credit.
Focuses on partnering with schools to enhance mental health and trauma-informed services designed to inform both school personnel and mental health professionals about the impact of traumatic events.
Addresses the response to child sexual abuse. This webinar series provides information about special populations, secondary traumatic stress among providers, and collaborations with the media, among other topics.
Addresses clinical, organizational, and staff training issues and describes unique challenges faced by specific populations at high risk for traumatic stress. This webinar series discusses a variety of issues at the intersection of culture and trauma in children and adolescents.
Provides an overview of current issues, challenges, and emerging practices facing child welfare jurisdictions as it relates to children who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation.
Discusses the distinction between spirituality and religion, as well as the consequences trauma has on spirituality. This webinar addresses the signs and symptoms of a moral injury and the importance of self-care for mental health providers.
Discusses definitions of psychosocial approaches, disasters, and disaster resiliency.
Provides an overview on how mental health professionals can work with journalists. This webinar discusses three challenges facing journalists covering disasters and terrorism and presents ways mental health professionals can collaborate with the news media.
Addresses four aspects of resilience. This webinar defines resiliency and discusses why it is important to understand resilience by highlighting research findings and showing how to adapt a resilience framework to practice.
Discusses the origins and organization of the CATS Program.
Presents a process for threat assessment and management in an educational setting. This webinar addresses the process of assessing risks of a particular individual or group of individuals and the design and implementation of management strategies to reduce those risks.
Focuses on the roles cultural sensitivity and race play in research on PTSD in children. This webinar discusses research as it relates to Katrina and African Americans.
Presents findings from research data on the 1988 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia and makes references to other natural disasters.