Defines resilience and factors that enhance resilience in children following a potentially traumatic event.
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Defines child traumatic stress. This fact sheet gives an overview of trauma, describes traumatic stress symptoms, and ways children may be impacted.
Highlights key points for providers, family advocates, and policymakers to understand about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child trauma. This resource was adapted from...
Presents three experienced clinician-researchers in the field of child traumatic stress highlighting the developmental impact of child trauma on early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
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.
Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
Informs policymakers and the public about the costs of child trauma, child maltreatment, and adversity.
The 12 Core Concepts: Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families
Outlines and describes The 12 Core Concepts: Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families.
Introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector.
Discusses the complexity of children's reaction to and processing of traumatic events.