Webinars
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.
Calm in the Storm: Therapist Attunement and Self-Regulation When Crises Occur in Session
Focuses on how therapists can handle the challenge of remaining attuned to intensely distressed clients while also recognizing and regulating their own stress reactions.
Networking with Community Partners in Times of Disaster
Provides strategies for establishing and expanding partnerships, discusses considerations for networking in rural and frontier communities, and highlights the role of health care coalitions and schools.
Preparing Your Organization to Respond to Disasters and Terrorism
Provides current recommendations for partnering with local organizations; resources available after a disaster or terrorism event; and strategies for staging response activities to address recovery.
Helping a Family Cope with the Threat of Revictimization
Focuses on Michael (12-years old) and Trisha (16-years-old), who live with their mother Monica in a single-parent household. Five years ago, their father Neil was incarcerated after violently attacking and nearly killing Monica while the children were upstairs in their bedrooms.
Exploring Policy Challenges, Solutions, and Resources for Addressing Trauma Among Refugee Youth
Explores policy challenges and solutions relevant to working with refugee youth.
Supporting a Recently Traumatized Youth in a Crisis of Dissociation and Self-Harm
Presents the first therapy session of Samantha, a 15-year-old African American girl who lives in public housing in an urban area rife with violence and drug use.
Engaging a Sexually Traumatized Youth in Therapy
Depicts a youth who is referred to therapy after several weeks of unexplained sickness. This webinar shows a youth who was already seeing a therapist to work on recent difficulties in school and conflicts with his parents.
Guiding Youth Through Loss and Betrayal
Depicts a client as she reveals, during her first therapy session, that she discovered her adoptive mother hid letters from her biological mother.
Supporting Military Children with Traumatic Grief
Provides an overview of issues specific to military culture and family life, describes two models for treating military children with traumatic grief, and highlights a service member's experience.
Reconnecting a Family Torn Apart by Violence and Addiction
This webinar shows a therapy session with a family, two parents and their teenage daughter and son, who have been required to seek therapy after the parents had a physical altercation while intoxicated.
Traumatic Separation in Children and Adolescents
Describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents.