Addresses the relevance of traumatic stress for healthcare providers and discusses the prevalence, impact, risk factors, and mechanisms of pediatric medical trauma.
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Provides tips for medical professionals on how to assess emotional support in ill or injured children and how to help their families.
Identifies the core competencies that STS-informed supervisors in any discipline should have. This fact sheet defines terms, outlines benchmarks for each competency, and offers supervisors guidance on ways...
Provides staff in child-serving systems with best practices for trauma screening.
Describes what comprehensive care for children in the child welfare system looks like.
Provides information about how traumatic events often generate secondary adversities such as family separations, financial hardship, relocations to a new residence and school, social stigma, ongoing treatment for injuries, physical rehabilitation,
Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.
Helps organizations assess their current practices in the context of serving children and families who have experienced trauma. It is an important part of an organizational transformation process to create trauma-informed organizations.
Helps learners to create a trauma lens through which they can view and better comprehend the effects of traumatic experiences and losses.
Offers parents guidance to parents about how to support your teen while at the hospital before, during, or after a medical procedure.