The American Psychiatric Association (APA) proposes to include a new grief disorder—Prolonged Grief Disorder—in its forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5-Text Revised (DSM-5-TR), which is scheduled for release in 2021.
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Provides information for parents and caregivers about infectious disease outbreaks in your community. Knowing important information about the outbreak and learning how to be prepared can reduce stress and help calm likely anxieties.
Explores the essential elements of the Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) and what is most important for agencies to know when thinking about launching the workshop, including additional questions related to getting started with the RPC.
Discusses the correlation between victimization and juvenile offending.
Offers parents and caregivers information about trauma. This fact sheet defines traumatic stress and describes how common it is, how it can impact a family, and things a family can do to cope with traumatic stress.
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.
Provides external resources related to sexual assault awareness.
Provides services including disaster relief and resettlement resources and promotes poverty-reduction through research and legislative reform.
Provides judges with useful questions and guidelines to help make decisions based on the emerging scientific findings in the traumatic stress field.
Offers activity ideas to parents and caregivers whose families are sheltering in place, evacuating their homes, or social distancing due to any type of disaster or event.