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.
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Offers information about distress, emotional support, and working with families after a medical trauma.
Offers providers information about synergy for children who experience trauma.
Provides information to children who have experienced medical trauma.
Offers information to providers about the impact of traumatic medical events.
Discusses ways mental health providers can work with pediatric medical providers to ensure traumatized children receive care.
Helps parents and caregivers understand children's reactions to injuries, and advises them on how they can help children respond in healthy ways.
Provides a focus on Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Advocacy Center.
Defines child traumatic stress. This fact sheet gives an overview of trauma, describes traumatic stress symptoms, and ways children may be impacted.