Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R) is a multi-level, phase-based organizational and clinical model for youth who have experienced forced displacement.
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Highlights the differences between stress and trauma by explaining their unique causes, effects, and timelines, helping caregivers, educators, and providers respond with the appropriate support.
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.
Provides staff in child-serving systems with best practices for trauma screening.
Offers activity ideas to parents and caregivers whose families are sheltering in place, evacuating their homes, or social distancing due to any type of disaster or event.
Offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event.
Provides information about the specific self-care strategy of Pause-Reset-Nourish, or PRN.
Outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help.
Offers information for youth to help them understand the differences between grief and traumatic grief, the signs and symptoms of traumatic grief in children and youth, and what to do to feel better.