Provides information and suggestions for helping children who experience traumatic separation from a caregiver.
Search
Defines child traumatic stress. This fact sheet gives an overview of trauma, describes traumatic stress symptoms, and ways children may be impacted.
Outlines different considerations that mental health professionals need to take into account when working with refugee youth and their families.
Outlines different considerations that mental health professionals need to take into account when working with refugee youth and their families.
Provides information on screening for mental health needs and trauma in a CAC.
Describes treatments for traumatic stress that are based on cognitive-behavioral approaches, including learning relaxation and stress management techniques, correcting distorted thoughts, and developing a trauma narrative.
Outlines different considerations that mental health professionals need to take into account when working with refugee youth and their families.
Provides information for staff in residential treatment centers on how to understand behavior through a trauma lens.
Offers guidance for supporting children who have family members on death row or who have been executed after serving a death sentence. This fact sheet provides information on what children may be experiencing and how you can help them.
Focuses on addressing secondary traumatic stress experienced by child welfare staff, easing children’s transitions into foster care, and working with parents who have been impacted by trauma.