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 a glossary of terms for healthcare providers to better understand the concepts within trauma-informed integrated care.
Offers a compendium of tools to guide medical professionals in effectively assessing and treating medical traumatic stress in children and families. This toolkit helps providers address the emotional, as well as the physical side of trauma.
Provides a trauma-informed integrated healthcare model for conceptualizing young children exposed to violence and other traumatic stressors.
Provides an understanding of trauma, traumatic stress, and toxic stress within the context of integrated healthcare.
Synthesizes research and clinical knowledge about typical brain development and the high impact that the stress response has on the developing brain.
Helps parents and caregivers understand children's reactions to injuries, and advises them on how they can help children respond in healthy ways.
Offers best practice recommendations and clinical guidelines for working with children and families who have experienced serious illness or injury.
Includes an overview of trauma-informed integrated healthcare by defining what it is (and what it is not), its goals and advantages, as well as benefits and challenges across four different integration models.
Offers information on why pediatric providers are important for grieving children.