Children Trauma and Disasters
Many children, adolescents and young adults experience physical and emotional injuries from traumas, disasters tragedies. They may lose friends, teachers, or family members in accidents or tragic events, or witness traumatic events on television. This section includes information and resources for parents, grandparents, teachers and other significant adults to help young people avoid emotional problems following a traumatic event.
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How to Help a Child Cope with Death
How to Help a Child Cope with Death provides helpful information and suggestions for the important people in a child's life--parents, caregivers, teachers, medical professionals and other significant adults to help a child cope with loss and death.
How to Help a Child Cope with Death provides helpful information and suggestions for the important people in a child's life--parents, caregivers, teachers, medical professionals and other significant adults to help a child cope with loss and death.
Coping With Traumatic Events: A Guide for Parents
A helpful resource developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This online resource provides guidelines for parents for talking with school age children about war and terrorism.
A helpful resource developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This online resource provides guidelines for parents for talking with school age children about war and terrorism.
(PDF File) Tips for Talking to Children in Trauma
A helpful resource by the Center for Mental Health Services, from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This downloadable PDF File provides helpful tips for talking to children from preschoolers to adolescents about trauma.
A helpful resource by the Center for Mental Health Services, from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This downloadable PDF File provides helpful tips for talking to children from preschoolers to adolescents about trauma.
Talking to Children About the Death of a Public Figure
The death of a celebrity, or a child's hero, can cause sadness and grief in many children. The death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin prompted the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to offer suggestions for talking with children about the death of a child's hero or public figure.
The death of a celebrity, or a child's hero, can cause sadness and grief in many children. The death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin prompted the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to offer suggestions for talking with children about the death of a child's hero or public figure.
Helping Children After A Disaster
An online fact sheet from the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry's Fast Facts for Families© Series. This brief article lists symptoms that parents should be alert to these changes in a child's behavior following a disaster or trauma.
An online fact sheet from the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry's Fast Facts for Families© Series. This brief article lists symptoms that parents should be alert to these changes in a child's behavior following a disaster or trauma.
Tips for Teachers: Marking Disaster Anniversaries in the Classroom
From the Emergency Mental Health and Traumatic Stress section of the National Mental Health Information Center an helpful article for helping students cope "Tips for Teachers: Marking Disaster Anniversaries in the Classroom." This article was inspired by the aftermath of September 11th, but is still timely for helping students deal with the aftermath of more recent disasters e.g. Katrina.
From the Emergency Mental Health and Traumatic Stress section of the National Mental Health Information Center an helpful article for helping students cope "Tips for Teachers: Marking Disaster Anniversaries in the Classroom." This article was inspired by the aftermath of September 11th, but is still timely for helping students deal with the aftermath of more recent disasters e.g. Katrina.
(PDF File) Tips for Talking to Children After a Disaster
From the Center for Mental Health Services comes a guide for helping parents and teachers recognize stress reactions that may occur in children after personally experiencing a disaster, watching it on television or hearing it discussed by adults. The guide provides helpful tips for talk to children after a disaster.
From the Center for Mental Health Services comes a guide for helping parents and teachers recognize stress reactions that may occur in children after personally experiencing a disaster, watching it on television or hearing it discussed by adults. The guide provides helpful tips for talk to children after a disaster.
Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters
An fact sheet produced by the National Institute of Mental Health to help children and adolescents cope with violence and disaster. This online version was created to help young people avoid or overcome emotional problems that may be experienced following violence or disasters.
An fact sheet produced by the National Institute of Mental Health to help children and adolescents cope with violence and disaster. This online version was created to help young people avoid or overcome emotional problems that may be experienced following violence or disasters.
(PDF File) Helping Children Cope with Violence and Disasters
An fact sheet produced by the National Institute of Mental Health to help children and adolescents cope with violence and disaster. This downloadable PDF File, version was created to help young people avoid or overcome emotional problems that may be experienced following violence or disasters.
An fact sheet produced by the National Institute of Mental Health to help children and adolescents cope with violence and disaster. This downloadable PDF File, version was created to help young people avoid or overcome emotional problems that may be experienced following violence or disasters.
Talking To Children About Terrorism And War
An online fact sheet from the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry's Fast Facts for Families© Series. This brief article provides helpful tips for talking to children about the difficult concepts of terrorism and war.
An online fact sheet from the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry's Fast Facts for Families© Series. This brief article provides helpful tips for talking to children about the difficult concepts of terrorism and war.