Making the Connection: Trauma and Substance Abuse

abuse, and substance abuse increases the likelihood that adolescents will experience trauma. Trauma as a risk factor for substance abuse According to the self-medication hypothesis of substance abuse, people develop substance abuse problems in an attempt to manage distress associated with the effects of trauma exposure and traumatic stress ...

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Information for Parents and Caregivers

Sexual Development and Behavior in Young Children: The Basics Like all forms of human development, sexual development begins at birth. Sexual development includes not only the physical changes that occur as children grow, but also the sexual knowledge and beliefs they come to learn and the behaviors they show. Any given child’s sexual knowledge

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The 12 Core Concepts - nctsn.org

12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Childhood 1. Traumatic experiences are inherently complex. ... in the aftermath of the traumatic event introduce additional layers of complexity. The degree of complexity often ... Posttraumatic stress and grief reactions can also disrupt major domains of child development ...

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ABC: Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network www.NCTSN.org 2 GENERAL INFORMATION ABC: Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Clinical & Anecdotal Evidence continued This intervention is being used on the basis of …

NAME: 0000: PCIT: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy General ...

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network www.NCTSN.org NAME: Name Spelled Out CULTURE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 2 PCIT: Parent-Child Interaction TherapyGeneral Information Symptom Expression continued If there are differences in symptom expression, in what ways does the theoretical/

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ARC: Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency: A ...

Self-Regulation, and Competency: A comprehensive intervention framework for children with complex trauma. Psychiatric Annals, ... treatment and had both a baseline and discharge data collection point exhibited a 17.2 drop in overall CBCL T-scores, with a …

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TRAINING GUIDELINES - nctsn.org

NCTSN Fact Sheet Available: ... and future template • Trauma experience integration: Support youth in reflecting upon, processing, and developing a narrative of traumatic experience, and integrating this into a coherent and comprehensive understanding of self

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Sanctuary Model - nctsn.org

informed, evidence-supported template for system change based on the active creation and maintenance of a nonviolent, democratic, productive community to help people heal from trauma.

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Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF CBT ...

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SPARCS: Structured Psychotherapy

progress as well. Administrators in one school noted a dramatic decrease in physical confrontations between students in the school and in another school a reduction in disciplinary referrals was observed following a shortened psychoeducational adaptation of the curriculum provided for over 200 youth. Upon observing

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ASSESSING STRESS IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH: A GUIDE …

ASSESSING STRESS IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH: A GUIDE FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME PROGRAM PRACTITIONERS Mary Terzian, Ph.D., M.S.W., Kristin A. Moore, Ph.D., and Hoan N. Nguyen OVERVIEW Stress is unavoidable and can occur in all facets of life. At some level, stress can be seen as a natural part of development and of adaptation to a changing …

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The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children with ...

stress placed on families caring for children with special needs (Fisher, Hodapp, & Dykens, 2008). Causes of stress can include additional financial costs, the physical and emotional health of parents or caregivers, and concerns about the future (Murphy, Christian, Caplin, & Young, 2007). High levels of stress and concern about their own well-being

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Assessing Social Support: The Social Support Questionnaire

increased children's resilience in the face of stress. Sandier (1980) found significant rela-tions between stress and social support, on the one hand, and children?s maladjustments, on the other. In a 30-year longitudinal study of Harvard University male undergraduates, Vaillant (1974, 1977) found that a supportive

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Delinquency Prevention & Intervention

that children who were victims of violence were 24 percent more likely to report engaging in violence. One-third of the victims of child abuse or neglect are likely to subject their own children to abuse. In cases of extreme exposure to violence, children may develop post-traumatic stress syndrome, which makes

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Understanding Traumatic Stress in Adolescents Fact Sheet

Understanding TRAUMATIC STRESS. In Adolescents. Y. outh services providers should always be aware of the links between adolescent traumatic stress and substance abuse problems. Carefully assessing for trauma exposure and its possible effects on youth functioning should be an integral part of the services provided by agencies and individuals

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The importance of assessing pain in adults

stress and a sense of loss of strength (Jerlock et al, 2005). The cause of pain In order to select the most appropriate treatment is necessary to identify the mechanism of injury (how it happened). Some key questions include: » Is this pain related to tissue damage?Patient participation This type of pain is called nociceptive pain,

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Handout: 7 Ages Developmental Milestones Infants: (0-18 ...

early elementary children start to understand the idea of the passage of time, as well as day, date and time as a concept as opposed to a number. • Most early elementary aged children have acquired the basic cognitive and linguistic concepts necessary to sufficiently communicate an abusive event. • They can also copy adult speech patterns.

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Assessing creativity: The Test for Creative Thinking ...

274 Assessing creativity: The Test for Creative Thinking - Drawing Production (TCT-DP) 1. Continuations (Cn): Any use, continuation or extension of the six given figural fragments. 2. Completion (Cm): Any additions, completions, complements, supplements made to the used, continued or extended figural fragments.

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