Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
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The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) is an innovative approach to providing mental health clinicians with foundational knowledge and case conceptualization skills.
Offers providers ways to use the CANS-Trauma Comprehensive, a tool designed to support individual service, treatment planning, and evaluation of service systems.
Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) is a model that addresses the primary reason that care is typically sought for a traumatized child: The child expresses episodes of uncontrolled emotion (e.g.
Provides an overview of child traumatic stress and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Updated October 2024
Children who suffer from child traumatic stress are those who have been exposed to one or more traumas over the course of their lives and develop reactions that persist and affect their daily lives after the events have ended.
Early childhood trauma generally refers to the traumatic experiences that occur to children aged 0-6.
Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R) is a multi-level, phase-based organizational and clinical model for youth who have experienced forced displacement.
The CTS is a 10-item screening measure of trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms consistent with DSM-5 criteria for children age 6-17 (age 3-6 version is in development).