trauma

The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregiver Dies

November 6, 2019

This fact sheet from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), co-sponsored by New York Life, draws from the experiences of bereaved caregivers, researchers, and mental health professionals. It offers guidance on how to talk to your child after a parent or caregiver dies including, how to face new fears,...
Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement

May 19, 2017

The “Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence” toolkit is designed to equip law enforcement professionals with trauma-informed, developmentally-appropriate tools to identify and minimize threats to child safety, foster closer engagement between law enforcement and youth, and maximize both officer safety and positive outcomes for children and families. The...
Out of Our Mind. Art Therapy and Mindfulness with Refugees, Political Violence and Trauma

February 24, 2017

Combining art therapy and mindfulness in meeting the needs of refugees and asylum seekers is a novel innovation. This paper presents the integration of these approaches, and draws on examples from a short term art therapy and mindfulness meditation studio group, named Inhabited Studio. Art therapy and mindfulness are demonstrated...
Building a Culture of Health by Creating Opportunities for Boys and Young Men of Color

October 17, 2016

Expanding opportunities and eliminating barriers to health and success for young men of color is critical to fully realizing a national “culture of health,” a series of issue briefs from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds. Commissioned in conjunction with RWJF’s $12 million commitment to Forward Promise, an initiative to...
The Importance of Treating for Trauma in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth

May 19, 2016

Research over the past several decades has established that youth exposure to violence is a widespread and significant problem. This is particularly true for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, as research has shown that up to 90 percent of these youth have histories of violence exposure, with many...
Update on Efforts to Address the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities

February 22, 2016

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and HIV are intersecting epidemics that have far-reaching health consequences for women in the United States. When these two problems converge—as they do far too often—the impact on women is compounded and the consequences can be devastating. Failure to address that intersection leads to a vicious cycle...
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Triangle of Life App for Children

September 17, 2015

A new mobile game app helps children who have experienced trauma by letting them use their tablets or smartphones to practice life skills they have learned in the therapist’s office. During the game, TF-CBT Triangle of Life, created by mental health professionals at Allegheny Health Network and students at the...
Epidemiology of Mental Health, Suicide and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders among Bhutanese Refugees in Ohio

August 31, 2015

A study on “Epidemiology of Mental Health, Suicide and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders among Bhutanese Refugees in Ohio” has been published recently. This research was guided by three main objectives: (1) to examine the effects of trauma exposure on refugees’ behavioral health, with particular focus on anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance use,...
Cumulative Burden of Lifetime Adversities: Trauma and Mental Health in Low-SES African Americans and Latino/as

June 26, 2015

This study examined the utility of a lifetime cumulative adversities and trauma model in predicting the severity of mental health symptoms of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The authors also tested whether ethnicity and gender moderate the effects of this stress exposure construct on mental health using multigroup structural...
Suicide Trends Among Elementary School–Aged Children in the United States From 1993 to 2012

May 18, 2015

The overall suicide rate among children between the ages of five and 11 was stable during the 20 years from 1993 to 2012, but that stability obscured racial differences that show an increase in suicide among black children and a decrease among white children. For a study published by JAMA...

trauma

The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregiver Dies

Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement

Out of Our Mind. Art Therapy and Mindfulness with Refugees, Political Violence and Trauma

Building a Culture of Health by Creating Opportunities for Boys and Young Men of Color

The Importance of Treating for Trauma in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth

Update on Efforts to Address the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Triangle of Life App for Children

Epidemiology of Mental Health, Suicide and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders among Bhutanese Refugees in Ohio

Cumulative Burden of Lifetime Adversities: Trauma and Mental Health in Low-SES African Americans and Latino/as

Suicide Trends Among Elementary School–Aged Children in the United States From 1993 to 2012

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