Resources

Finding the Right Spot is a story for all kids who can't live with their parents, regardless of the circumstances. It's a story about resilience and loyalty, hope and disappointment, love, sadness, and anger, too. It's about whether life is fair, and wondering what will happen tomorrow, and talking about all of it. And finally, it's about what makes the spot you're in feel right.

Healing Days is a sensitive and reassuring story intended for children who have experienced trauma and covers the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that many kids have after a bad and scary thing happens. It also emphasizes that children are not to blame for what happened, and that they can get help and look forward to a happy future. Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.

This book discusses the neurobiology behind emotional states and presents exercises for developing self-awareness. It also includes case studies, detailed instructions for clinicians, and handouts ready for use in assessment/therapy with patients/clients.

This is a book for children, parents and teachers to teach kids to understand and overcome traumatic events that they might experience.

This article describes secure attachment and explains how parents can become a secure-base to their children.

This article gives information about childhood trauma and the resulting consequences on survivors’ health, from babies impaired development to adult health problems. It also provides information on protective factors.

This book aims to support health and social service organizations and providers to create environments, policies, and practices to mitigate the harms of structural and interpersonal violence and the trauma that ensues. The book is organized around case examples of trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC) implementation and impact in diverse settings, providing how-to guidance for getting started, sustaining momentum, and assessing outcomes. The book describes the importance of TVIC at multiple levels, from individual practices to organizational protocols and system-level policies, emphasizing TVIC’s alignment with system transformation goals.

This article describes developmental trauma disorder (DTD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) and helps understand how they differ from PTSD. It explains how adverse experiences in childhood can impact development. It also describes several interventions used to treat children and adolescents with a history of complex trauma.

This article provides information on how poverty and income instability may increase risks of violence in families. It also presents ways to overcome this situation.

This book for parents of children with serious emotional, psychological and behavioural challenges offers nine practical and effective strategies that parents can use to make children change troubling behaviours and become more resilient. Told as the story of three families that meet together weekly with Dr. Ungar at his office, each family’s struggles and successes are proof that with a little guidance and the power of unconditional love, any child can be helped to heal and reconnect.