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Due to the particular developmental risks associated with young children's traumatic experiences, it is essential that vulnerable children be identified as early as possible after the trauma.
In any given year, approximately one million children come to the attention of the US child welfare system.
Children's responses to medical trauma are often more related to their subjective experience of the medical event rather than its objective severity. Reactions vary in intensity and can be adaptive or may become disruptive to functioning.
When assessing trauma and mental health symptoms in refugee children, providers should attend to engagement and cultural considerations as important first steps.
Showcases the progress the NCTSN has made in the field of child trauma in the last ten years, the impact the Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents curriculum has had on parents, as well as other stories.
Offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress.
Describes assessment strategies and evidence-based interventions for interpersonal violence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic across development, with a focus on 1) how to ask children about their trauma experiences and responses; 2) the use of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for young...
The following resources related to Trauma-Informed Pediatric Psychiatry were developed by the NCTSN.