TOPIC: Child traumatic stress -- Post-Traumatic Stress

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet
• Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Intervention and Resources for School Aged Youth
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning

Chapter
• Addressing trauma and other barriers to learning and teaching: Developing a comprehensive system of intervention

Articles
• Addressing student and schooling problems: Not another project: Child safety should be embedded in the missions of schools

Information Resource
• About Anxiety Attacks
• About Social Anxiety and Schools
• About What Young People are Experiencing During the Pandemic
• Addressing Violent Behavior at Schools
• Back-to-School Anxiety
• Children with Incarcerated Parents: The Role of Schools
• Fidgety Students
• In-Class Presentations: A Potential Barrier to Success at School?
• Sexual Harassment by Peers in Schools
• Students and Anxiety Problems
• Trauma: A Barrier to Learning and Teaching

Practice Notes
• About Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Grief and Loss
• School Responses to Natural Disasters
• The School's Role in Addressing Psychological Reactions to Loss

Research Notes
• About Physical and Mental Health Effects of Racism and Discrimination on African Americans

Policy Notes
• Don’t Just React: It’s Time to Rethink Policy for Mental Health in Schools

QuickFind
• Crisis Prevention and Response
• Grief and Bereavement

Quick Training Aids
• Crisis Assistance and Prevention: Reducing Barriers to Learning
• School-based Crisis Intervention

Resource Aid Packet
• Responding to Crisis at a School
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Technical Aid Packet
• School-Based Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Coping After Disasters

• Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
• Creating Sanctuary in Schools
• Helping Children Understand Crisis and Trauma
• How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery
• National Commission on Children and Disasters: 2010 Report to the President and Congress
• Preventing and Mitigating the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Post-Traumatic Growth in Children and Adolescents
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis in Children: Challenges and Promises
• Relationships Among Trait Resilience, Virtues, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Posttraumatic Growth
• Trauma-informed Schools: Child Disaster Exposure, Community Violence and Somatic Symptoms

Disaster Response Workers

• Disaster Rescue and Response Workers
• How Can Emergency Responders Manage Their Own Response To a Traumatic Event?

Effects of Community Violence

• Children in a Violent Society
• The Effects of Community Violence on Children and Teens

Emotional Problems
• Adverse childhood experiences are different than child trauma, and it’s critical to understand why
• Balancing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) With HOPE
• Children Affected by Trauma: Selected States Report Various Appoaches and Challenges to Supporting Children
• Coping With Stress
• Emotional Reactions to Disasters
• Healing invisible wounds: Why investing in trauma-informed care for children makes sense
• Helping Traumatized Children at School
• Students Experiencing Stress
• Trauma Informed Classrooms
• Unlocking the Door to Learning: Trauma-Informed Classrooms & Tranformational Schools
• Ways schools can support students, staff suffering from trauma

Factsheets & Guides

• Childhood-Trauma Learning Collaborative Toolkit
• PTSD in Children and Adolescents
• PTSD in sexually abused children
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Children's Enduring PTSD Symptoms are Related to Their Family's Adaptability and Cohesion
• Helping Families in Distress
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Working Toward Well-Being: Community Approaches to Toxic Stress

Funding Resources

• Mobilizing Trauma Resources for Children (2004) W. Harris, et al, Presented at the Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute

Screenings
• Screening a Child's Mind

Terroism
• Talking to Children About Terrorism
• What to Tell Children About Terrorist Bombings

Others
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Protective Factors with School Engagement
• About abnormal hippocampal activity in dissociative disorder and PTSD and how it correlates with childhood trauma
• The effectiveness of art therapy for PTSD treatment
• Strengthening Policies to Support Children, Youth, and Families Who Experience Trauma
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence
• Toxic stress in children and youth: Exploring the role of community-based programing to support health and well-being in the United States