Provides tips for medical professionals on how to assess emotional support in ill or injured children and how to help their families.
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Provides a brief overview of medical traumatic stress, the D-E-F protocol (Reduce Distress, Promote Emotional Support, and Remember the Family) and traumatic stress reactions.
Outlines recommendations for how jurisdictions can understand Family First’s policy requirements for trauma-informed approaches and ensure that implementation of the law meets the trauma-related needs of children, youth and families.
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.
Is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in STS cross-disciplinary version.
Addresses typical sexual behavior in children in addition to exploring cautionary and problematic sexual behavior (PSB) that children may display.
Is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision.
Outlines core competencies which pinpoint skill sets that health care and behavioral health practitioners should acquire to identify, respond to, and serve individuals who have experienced trafficking and individuals at risk of trafficking.
Gives information on child traumatic stress, how child traumatic stress can derail development, the effects of childhood trauma, and what the NCTSN is doing to support children and families who have experienced trauma.
Offers mental health providers information on understanding cultural responsiveness to racial trauma, why it matters, and what to do.