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This section brings together all our resources on trauma in children and adolescents. You can use the filter bar to select audience, resource type, or theme; or search by keyword.

Guides & Fact Sheets

This guide offers information about complex trauma, how it can impact youth, both good and harmful coping strategies, and ways to improve. This guide is for youth who have experienced complex trauma or who know someone who has. Clinicians, caregivers, and other adults can also use the guide to have conversations with youth about what complex trauma is.

- Created by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

Guides & Fact Sheets

This page discusses the various types of family violence, the numerous types of abusive behaviors, the warning signs, and who is affected by this specific form of violence. It also offers a section dedicated to individuals' rights when it comes to family violence.

- Created by Alberta Government.

Guides & Fact Sheets

This page provides clear definitions of the different themes related to sexual assault and helps to distinguish them.

- Created by Marie-Vincent Foundation.

Guides & Fact Sheets

This fact sheet provides information on ways to help children who are blending in and who haven't learned to assert themselves to give their opinions.

- Created by Beacon House - Therapeutic Services and Trauma Team.

Guides & Fact Sheets

For Parents and Caregivers of Children Aged 0–17

This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for parents and caregivers of children aged 0–17 years on parenting interventions that are designed to reduce child maltreatment and harsh parenting, enhance the parent–child relationship, and prevent poor mental health among parents and emotional and behavioural problems among children.

- Created by the World Health Organization.

Guides & Fact Sheets

This tip sheet, created for parents and caregivers, provides information on how to develop better talking skills when interacting with children.

- Created by McMaster Children’s Hospital.

Guides & Fact Sheets

This tip sheet, created for emergency room staff, offers guidelines so professionals who are interacting with youth/young adults are equipped and are providing sensitive care.

- Created by Trauma Informed Oregon.

Infographics

This infographic provides 9 strategies to help individuals who have a bordeline personnality disorder.

- Created by the Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute.

Infographics

This infographic provides insight on an article describing why physical punishment has no benefit to children. It also illustrates the consequences during adolescence and the lasting effects in adulthood.

- Created by the Childhood Adversity and Resilience (CARe) Research.

Infographics

These infographics provide information on the way experiences we have in the first years of our lives also affect the physical architecture of the developing brain. Contrary to popular belief, the structure of our brains as they develop in early childhood is determined by more than just our genes.

- Created by the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative.