Provides information on the impact that trauma may have on youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
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Offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress.
Introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector.
Discusses the differences between acute, chronic, and complex trauma and how each trauma type uniquely affects children. Emphasizes the importance of recognizing their overlap to provide effective trauma-informed care.
Explains how everyday sights, sounds, and experiences can unexpectedly trigger memories or emotions tied to trauma or loss. Helps caregivers understand these reminders and recognize how they may show up differently for each child.
Trauma Adapted Family Connections (TA-FC) is a manualized, evidence supported and trauma-focused preventive ntervention developed to address the glaring gap in services for this specific, growing, and underserved population.
TFC (also known as Multimodality Trauma Treatment Trauma-Focused Coping) is a skills-oriented, cognitive-behavioral treatment approach for children exposed to single incident trauma and targets PTSD and collateral symptoms of depression, anxiety,
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,
Details information about interventions for children exposed to violence. This is a chapter in the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute report Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence.
Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.