Treatment & Intervention

Simple, direct, and from the heart, Jessie gives children the permission and the courage to deal with sexual abuse."Please Tell! is a beautifully simple book with a profoundly important message for children who have been sexually the abuse wasn't their fault

A Place for Starr follows a brave girl and her family as they break the cycle of violence and leave an abusive home. This healing story helps children understand that family violence is not their fault, and they can tell adults or friends about their plight. Children learn that there are other families just like theirs that suffer from abuse.

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

The Empowering Kids Series is a collection of empathically reflective stories told from the perspective of young children. These books are meant to be used by parents and mental health providers to facilitate the child's verbalization of their feelings and experiences, thereby advancing the healing process and are aimed at validating the readers' experiences and feelings, thereby reducing feelings of shame and isolation.

This story was written to help children and grown-ups (parents, teachers, and other important adults) understand how stress can affect children and ways to help them. More precisely, it is a story about a little squirrel that announces that he was once very, very scared and he finds out that he is not alone. Lots of little animals went through scary experiences, but they react in different ways: turtles hide and get a tummy ache, monkeys cling, dogs bark, and elephants don’t like to talk about it. They need help, and they get help from grown-ups who help them feel safe and learn ways to cope with difficult feelings. 

The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework can be used with children, parents, and other caregivers in a wide range of settings. The volume guides the clinician to identify key treatment goals and intervene flexibly to strengthen child–caregiver relationships and support healthy development and positive functioning. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, it is packed with case vignettes and clinical tools, including 79 reproducible handouts and forms.  

With contributions from prominent experts, this pragmatic book takes a close look at the nature of complex psychological trauma in children and adolescents and the clinical challenges it presents. Each chapter shows how a complex trauma perspective can provide an invaluable unifying framework for case conceptualization, assessment, and intervention amidst the chaos and turmoil of these young patients' lives.  

Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults is the first empirically-validated, multi-component manual to guide practitioners and students in the treatment of multi-traumatized adolescents and young adults. Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A) integrates a series of approaches and techniques, which are adapted according to the youth's specific symptoms, culture, and age.

This volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music, movement, and drama therapy, as well as bibliotherapy, describe step-by-step strategies for working with children, families, and groups. Rich with case material and artwork, the book is both practical and user-friendly.

This book offers information about complex trauma and explanation on the three-stage statement model 

This book discusses risk and protective factors for the development of post-traumatic disorders, conceptualizations of resilience and suggestions for making them operational and evidence-based treatment models for traumatized children. It also helps professionals and researchers develop future treatments based on current evidence. 

This short booklet provides useful information for adults living and working with children impacted by traumatic death.

This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems. Organized around concepts of safety, permanency, and well-being, chapters describe innovations in child protection, violence prevention, foster care, and adoption services to reduce immediate effects of trauma on children and improve long-term development and maturation. Foundations and interventions for practice include collaborations with families and community entities, cultural competency, trauma-responsive assessment and treatment, promoting trauma-informed parenting, and, when appropriate, working toward reunification of families.

This evidence-based guide to assessing, reporting, and treating childhood maltreatment is essential reading for any professional working with children. It provides knowledge on the latest knowledge about childhood maltreatment and hands-on information on trauma-based CBT.

Cruel but Not Unusual is a book that reflects the patriarchal roots and societal conditions in Canada that have led to the long-standing abuse of women and children 

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

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. 

In this article, the use of the neurosequential model of therapeutics to guide play in the healing process is discussed.

This chapter offers information on the neurosequentail model of therapeutics and present case examples to better understand the concepts.

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.

The first part of the infographic proposes three aspects to consider when working with children who have experienced trauma. In the second part, the ARC model of intervention is presented, illustrating the different components that need to be taken into consideration to improve children's quality of life after trauma.

This presentation provides information on PTSD as well as tools that can be presented to clients facing triggering situations related to PTSD.

This page provides information on various statistics related to sexual violence.

This page explains the role of compassion in healing and treating trauma. It also provides information on how one's attachment can affect their compassion.

The following interventions, presented in a serie of fact sheets, have been developed specifically for Complex Trauma and were designed to address a range of developmental concerns and competencies. Some intervene individually with children, adolescents, or young adults, while others involve work with children and their caregivers together, or with the entire family.

This page offers a concrete tool to help children focus on their senses in order to better manage their emotions.

​​​​​​ This page offers concrete ways to relax.

These pages provide information on the ARC intervention which was developed for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma, along with their caregiving systems. They address who is ARC intended for, how was ARC developed, what are ARC adaptations and more information on research, publications and ARC media.

​​​​​This page provides a better understanding of the challenging behaviors that children who have experienced trauma may exhibit as well as alternative interventions that can be put in place.