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Nine Tips for Talking to Kids about Trauma

After a tragedy like the Paris attacks, kids will have questions. How do we respond?

How Childhood Traumas Affect Aging

How Childhood Experiences Shape Our Nation's Health

New findings suggest that Americans are ready for new approaches address early childhood trauma and stress. To do that in a big way, we need more than science—we need a movement.

Why Understanding Student Trauma is More Important Than Teaching ‘Grit’

“We are asking students to change a belief system without changing the situation around them.”

To manage the stress of trauma, schools are teaching students how to relax

Toxic stress is a barrier to learning, educators say, and often affects students living in poverty.

10 Things About Childhood Trauma Every Teacher Needs to Know

For children who have experienced trauma, learning can be a big struggle. But once trauma is identified as the root of the behavior, we can adapt our approach to help kids cope when they’re at school.

Emotional Trauma’s Surprising Effect on Children

Alteration in the brain may be similar to head trauma

5 Self-Care Practices Black People Can Use While Coping With Trauma

The distress can be daunting, but don't let it defeat you.

Why Trauma is Important

Sometimes I am asked why trauma is so important to the work we do. In every section of our society, there are trauma survivors.  This is especially t

4 Ways to Start Healing From Childhood Trauma

Asking the right questions and changing the script.

What is Child Trauma?

What is Child Trauma?<br>When a child feels intensely threatened by an event he or she is involved in or witnesses, we call that event a trauma. There is a range of traumatic events or trauma types to which children and adolescents can be exposed.

How trauma-informed care promotes healing

Trauma is common in human experience, health care personnel and systems must be cognizant of its impact on past, present, and future health.

What Is Trauma? 9 Things We Fail To Understand

What comes to your mind when you hear the word trauma? Do you think of physical or psychological trauma? Do you have preconceived notions about how trauma may affect human development? Sadly, many people struggle to understand the emotional, psychological,...

How Child Sponsorship Can Address Trauma

Understanding childhood trauma makes a difference in helping vulnerable children.

How Boys' And Girls' Brains Process Trauma Differently

Trauma may affect brain development differently in boys than in girls.

Four Tips to Help Children Cope with Trauma

Sudden mishaps or unexpected events such as traffic accidents, natural catastrophes, sudden losses or illnesses, are examples of traumatic experiences.

A Therapist’s Guide to Understanding Trauma Therapy

What Every Survivor of Sexual Trauma Needs to Know

"I feel like what happened was my fault. Like I did something to deserve it," is a statement that I have heard frequently in my work as a therapist who specializes in helping survivors of trauma. I have spoken with numerous survivors whose families and friends asked them, "Why can't you just get over it?"<br>Awareness of the impact that trauma can have on an individual is spreading, however there is still a lot of misinformation and stigma that many survivors experience. Although…