Resources

In her presentation, Sue Bennett outlined the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and advocated for a child rights approach to child protection. She emphasized the scientific basis of early childhood development as a social determinant of health.

This resource offers a de tailed list of symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder. It also provides a definition and more precise information on certain symptoms.

This fact sheet offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event.

This fact sheet describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.

This guide takes a step-by-step approach to learning more about the effects of toxic stress.

This guide offers seven guidelines that were extrapolated from the trauma psychology literature, both scientific and professional. Recognizing the ubiquity of trauma histories in the human experience and hence the broad, transdiagnostic relevance of trauma psychology to professional practice, these guidelines address the potential etiological role of the complexity of a client’s trauma history without focusing on specific disorders or treatments; that is, transdiagnostically, for all mental health problems with which they may present.

This paper shows how the science of child development can be leveraged to strengthen and improve the public child welfare system so that it can better support the children, families, and communities it serves. It is intended for leaders in the public agencies responsible for child protection and related functions; in the private, non-profit agencies that provide many of the services in these systems; in the courts, which play a critical role in child welfare; in legislative committees that oversee child welfare and related services; and in the many other public systems, such as early childhood education, mental health, and juvenile justice, whose support is essential to success in child welfare.

This fact sheet explores the importance, clinical considerations, and approaches to assessing for psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress with youth in the juvenile justice population. It addresses challenges that are unique to assessment within the juvenile justice environment.

This fact sheet offers information on the assessment of complex trauma in children. It provides general guidelines for assessing complex trauma such as gathering information, a variety of approaches and techniques, how to work with a child's family and care team, and assessing over time. It also gives helpful tips providers can use.

This document offers parents and caregivers a brief checklist to use to determine if a complete assessment for complex trauma should be scheduled. This fact sheet will help parents and caregivers determine when to seek professional help.