Provides background statistics on trauma and substance abuse, describes the risk factor interactions between trauma and substance abuse, and outlines challenges to care and possible solutions.
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Discusses ways to better engage adolescents who have experienced trauma in treatment.
Offers an introduction to issues regarding engaging adolescents in treatment that providers must consider when treating adolescents with symptoms of both traumatic stress and substance use.
Offers activities and a scenario for youth who have been ill or injured to help understand what it is they might be feeling.
Offers teachers guidance on helping students after a hurricane. This fact sheet describes common reactions students may have, how teachers and school staff can help them, as well as self-care for school personnel.
Features Nancy Kassam Adams and Anne Kazak, longtime members of the NCTSN and Co-Directors of the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, an NCTSN Category II Center.
Offers teachers guidance on helping students after a tornado. This fact sheet describes common reactions students may have, how teachers and school staff can help, as well as engage in self-care after a tornado.
Offers teachers guidance on helping students after an earthquake. This fact sheet describes common reactions students may have, how teachers and school staff can help, as well as engage in self-care after an earthquake.
Offers teachers guidance on helping students after a mass violence event. This fact sheet describes common reactions students may have, how teachers and school staff can help, as well as engage in self-care after a mass violence event.
Offers guidance to clinicians called upon to testify as an expert witness for a client’s court case.