Discusses the complexity of children's reaction to and processing of traumatic events.
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Introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector.
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.
Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
Provides information about how traumatic events often generate secondary adversities such as family separations, financial hardship, relocations to a new residence and school, social stigma, ongoing treatment for injuries, physical rehabilitation,
Details information about interventions for children exposed to violence. This is a chapter in the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute report Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence.
Provides an overview of child traumatic stress and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Updated October 2024
Highlights the need for clinicians and policy makers to understand the links between trauma and culture.
Presents three experienced clinician-researchers in the field of child traumatic stress highlighting the developmental impact of child trauma on early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
Offers information about how to work with children and use a developmental lens.