
Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress: How to Assess and Help - Family
Provides tips for medical professionals on how to assess a family of ill or injured children and how to help their families.
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Provides tips for medical professionals on how to assess a family of ill or injured children and how to help their families.

Offers information about distress, emotional support, and working with families after a medical trauma. These reference cards are a way to quickly screen if a parent, caregiver, or child is at risk for ongoing traumatic stress reactions after a medical procedure or trauma.
Describes what comprehensive care for children in the child welfare system looks like.

Is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in STS cross-disciplinary version.

Offers information to providers about the impact of traumatic medical events.
Helps parents and caregivers understand children's reactions to injuries, and advises them on how they can help children respond in healthy ways.
Offers best practice recommendations and clinical guidelines for working with children and families who have experienced serious illness or injury.