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Gang-involved youth in the US have been likened to “America’s child soldiers”, particularly in regard to their exposure to trauma. Involvement in armed groups, from revolutionary movements to gangs, is a major contributor to children’s experience of trauma and concomitant psychological sequelae. Although in some situations children are forcibly recruited into armed groups, in many contexts recruitment processes and reasons for joining are complex and involve a degree of choice and social agency. This webinar will explore the conditions that contribute to youth affiliation with armed groups, including racialized structural and economic violence, individual and community traumatization, and high-risk behavioral adaptations to chronic violence. Findings of research with gang-involved youth and anecdotal evidence will be used to elucidate the pathway by which American children may join armed groups and the traumatic effects of gang involvement. Parallels between gang-involved youth in the U.S. and child soldiers in other countries, as well as U.S. youth who have been trafficked in other contexts, will be discussed. Current promising approaches to trauma-informed intervention with this population will be described and recommendations for intervention, research, and system reform will be made.
In this webinar Kristine Kinniburgh of the Trauma Center at JRI discusses ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency) a flexible intervention for children with complex trauma. She describes how the intervention can address a continuum of exposures, including ongoing exposure. She describes how it is embedded in a social/contextual framework and sensitive to individual developmental competencies and deficits. She also describes how the intervention addresses individual, familial, and systemic needs and strengths.
Category: Complex Trauma
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population.
In this webinar Margaret Blaustein disscusses the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model and provides participants with a component-based framework for intervention with children with complex trauma. The framework is grounded in theory and empirical knowledge about the effects of trauma, recognizing the core effects of trauma exposure on attachment, self-regulation, and developmental competencies. This model emphasizes the importance of understanding and intervening with the child-in-context, with a philosophy that systemic change leads to effective and sustainable outcomes.
Category: Complex Trauma
This course is designed to support professional care providers, paraprofessionals, caregivers, and caregiving systems who work with bereaved children, adolescents, and their families. It contains bereavement-related information-gathering and case formulation tools, case studies for discussion and training, resources from the bereavement research literature, webinar presentations, and web links to other bereavement-related resources.
This webinar will detail how National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) researchers and practitioners with expertise in complex trauma and children partnered with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the New York State Department of Health to establish complex trauma in children as an eligible condition for health home coverage. This translation of research and practice into policy provides an enhanced treatment and financing benefit for children exposed to complex trauma. Learn how New York State put this concept into practice and generated a complex trauma referral workflow for this population of children.
Category: Policy
In this webinar, an introduction to the series, the speakers provide an overview of the prevalence and incidence of child physical abuse and the status of research and practice in the field. Through case examples, the speakers illustrate the impact of physical abuse on children, identify characteristics of physically abusive caregivers and families, and highlight common biases related to working with these families.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
In this webinar Mandy Habib discusses the intervention SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress). In the presentation, she provides an overview of the intervention, discusses developmental considerations in treating traumatized adolescents, and offers suggestions to meet training and implementation challenges. Ms. Soderberg provides the perspective of a youth who has been treated with the SPARCS model.
Category: Complex Trauma
Research has shown that LGBTQ youth who have family support have better outcomes through their youth and into adulthood. This is especially relevant for LGBTQ youth who have experienced trauma and may face ongoing safety concerns related to their identities. This webinar will outline techniques for engaging families in affirming treatment and care of their LGBTQ youth, including a review of strategies used within the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) with founder Caitlin Ryan. FAP, a research-based prevention and intervention initiative, uses a culturally grounded framework to help diverse families support their LGBTQ children with decreasing health and mental health risks and promoting well-being. Practitioners will examine ways to engage in cultural humility and understanding when engaging families and youth in trauma treatment.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
Presenters discuss existing theoretical and practical perspectives on family resilience and the clinical and research implications for children and families who have experienced trauma.
Category: Family Systems
In this webinar Gene Griffin and Denise Herz report findings from research on Crossover Youth. They discuss how traumatic stress plays a role in the trajectory of Crossover Youth, and implications for policy and practice.
In this webinar presenters discuss how to recognize the uniqueness of the loss and grief American Indian children and communities experience. The presentation is framed within the context of intergenerational trauma, grief, and loss. Demographics of death and loss are reviewed. Participants gain an understanding of the importance of grounding interventions, assessments, and research in culture and community. In addition to the knowledge of two clinicians who are native to Montana tribes, two non-native clinicians describe their experiences and lessons learned from working in an American Indian community. Finally, specific examples will be used to demonstrate the process of adapting interventions to accommodate culture and evaluating instruments for cultural effectiveness.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
Research and experience tell us that youth involved in commercial sexual exploitation seek medical care—for a variety of reasons. In this webinar, presenters will explore the common reasons for seeking care, as well as challenges to victim identification. They will examine how survivors may experience their health care visit and what medical professionals can do to best serve these youth.
Michael (12-years old) and Trisha (16-years-old) live with their mother Monica in a single-parent household. Five years ago, their father Neil was incarcerated after violently attacking and nearly killing Monica while the children were upstairs in their bedrooms. Michael and Trisha seem resilient, doing well emotionally, in school, and with peers, but Monica developed panic attacks and nightmares. Monica began therapy with Dr. Taylor two years ago, and her PTSD symptoms had largely resolved until she learned a couple of weeks ago that her ex-husband was going to get released from prison within the next month. Monica and Dr. Taylor jointly decided it would be helpful for the children to learn of their father’s imminent release in a family session with Dr. Taylor, the children’s first meeting with Dr. Taylor.
In this session you will meet Jayda, a young mother who is battling feelings of inadequacy as the parent of a toddler. Jayda is struggling to balance life’s responsibilities while experiencing loss and loneliness following the incarceration of her partner Trevor.
In this presentation Frank Putnam synthesizes research and clinical knowledge about normal brain development and the high impact that the stress response has on the developing brain. He highlights the clinical application for clinicians and other professionals who work with traumatized children.
Category: Master Clinicians
The needs of children and families may change in the weeks, months, and years following disasters and terrorism events. To best meet these evolving needs, service providers must appreciate the diversity of recovery trajectories and understand how to stage response activities to promote long-term recovery. This webinar provides an overview of current research and up-to-date knowledge on long-term effects and needs after a disaster, strategies for pacing response activities with the stage of disaster, recommendations for working with systems that support youth living outside the home, including foster care and juvenile justice, and considerations for the role of cultural factors.
Desarrollado por Marta Casas LMHC, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, este seminario web se enfoca en niños migrantes no acompañados menores de 5 años. Para los niños migrantes pequeños, la separación de los padres, puede peligrosamente agravar y exacerbar estresores traumáticos previos y tener efectos devastadores a corto y largo plazopara ellos. Por lo tanto, estos niños pueden presentar desafíos a nivel deldesarrollo, relacionales, de autorregulación y de comportamiento que pueden ser difíciles de entender y manejar. Las presentadoras discuten intervenciones informadasen el desarrollo, el trauma ysocioculturalmentesensiblese involucran a la audiencia en reflexiones sobre las mejores prácticas y la importancia de adaptaciones ycambios en lapráctica para poder servir adecuadamente a esta población.
Joshua’s mom abandoned him when he was a few days old. For the first three years of his life, Joshua lived with his maternal grandmother and her partner. When Joshua began preschool, his teachers had some concerns about his overall hygiene and care. A few months later, his teacher called DCF to report suspected abuse when he came to school with burns on both of his hands. DCF removed Joshua from his grandmother’s care due to neglect and physical abuse. Joshua went to live with his biological father for two years. At 6 years of age, Joshua’s father was incarcerated, forcing Joshua to be placed in a foster home. DCF arranged visits with his father on and off for a few years after his father’s release from prison. Joshua remained in the same foster home until the day he was arrested for attempted armed robbery at age 15. In this session, the therapist was asked by DCF to work on strengthening the relationship between Joshua and his father to see if he could move in and live with his father’s family in the future. The therapist begins the session by welcoming the father and letting him know that she has been working with Joshua for a month now. The therapist goes over Joshua’s strengths and highlights how grateful Joshua is for the opportunity to reconnect with family.
In this webinar John Landsverk explains to participants how to understand implementation research as both an emerging science and an extension of services research. The webinar helps participants learn about the current development of implementation science methods in the selected areas of implementation processes, fidelity measurement, and use of randomized designs by time and context. During the presentation the speaker encourages participants to consider the use of methods developed for implementation research in real-world dissemination and implementation initiatives within service systems.
In this presentation Dr. Cozza presents on the strengths of military families and children and on strategies for working with military families in community settings. Dr. Cozza also discusses his work as an advisor to the Sesame Street program Talk, Listen, Connect, as well as his research to understand the impact of parental injury on military children and families.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) was created by Congress in 2000 as part of the Children’s Health Act to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for children and families who experience or witness traumatic events. This unique network of child-serving professionals, caregivers and young adults, researchers, and national partners is committed to changing the course of children’s lives by improving their care and moving scientific gains quickly into practice across the U.S. The NCTSN is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and coordinated by the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS). This course is for those who are getting started in the Network or want a refresher on the NCTSN and all the activities of the Network.
This interactive online training offers certificate of completion. Does not offer any CEs.
This interactive online training offers certificate of completion. Does not offer any CEs.
Category: Continuing Education
Working with military families, it is clear that there is power in focusing on family strengths. The Center for the Study of Social Policy has done extensive research and found the same to be true across the nation, developing their Strengthening Families Protective Factors™. Based on this evidence-based work, the Academy and ZTT have partnered together to develop the Protective Factors Framework-Military (PFF-M). Join us for this informative webinar as we highlight the ways PFF-M can enhance your work with families in the military.
Category: Academy on Child Traumatic Stress
In this webinar, Armen Goenjian and Alan Steinberg present their findings from research data on the 1988 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia and make references to other natural disasters. They present research on the longitudinal course of PTSD, controlled treatment outcomes, neurohormonal functioning, impact of single and double trauma, impact on the elderly, moral development, orphans, and genetics of PTSD and depression.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar Mandy Habib discusses the intervention SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress). In the presentation, she provides an overview of the intervention, discusses developmental considerations in treating traumatized adolescents, and offers suggestions to meet training and implementation challenges.
Category: Complex Trauma
Faculty will describe the work of Strong Families Strong Forces, a Department of Defense funded project to develop and test a home-based intervention for military families with young children (birth to five). Using a Community Based Participatory Research model, they developed a 3-phase project to (1) explore the needs of military families after an OEF/OIF deployment, (2) pilot an attachment-based intervention in the home, and (3) test the developed model using a randomized clinical trial. They will describe their work with over 100 families, including details of the 8-module intervention, and present case vignettes to illustrate the clinical work and varied needs of families during the reintegration phase of the deployment cycle.
In this webinar, you will meet Angel Cooper, Matthew Bump, Weimy Montero, and Marcell Paige, four amazing young adults who will talk about their experiences and thoughts on resiliency. They will reflect on their goals, challenges, healthy coping styles, and hopes for the future. The participants reflections will give us an inside look at resilience and how it can impact developmental trauma. Dr. Rocio Chang will moderate live commentary with Drs. Mandy Habib, Cheryl Lanktree, Monique Marrow, and Isaiah Pickens. In this live commentary, the experts will talk about the importance of having open conversations with young adults as well as how to listen to their own reflections and reactions while these conversations are taking place.
Faculty from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Social Work discuss their recent education and training initiatives addressing the creation of a military social work curriculum and discussing the Reintegration Partnership Project which facilitates the transition of veterans back to civilian life.
In this webinar, Ann Masten addresses four aspects of resiliency. She defines resiliency and discusses why it is important to understand 'resilience', by highlighting research findings on resilience and showing how to adapt a resilience framework to practice.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar, Russel Jones focuses on the roles cultural sensitivity and race play in research on PTSD in children. The presenter discusses his research as it relates to Katrina and African Americans.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Crossover youth—those involved simultaneously or successively in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems—represent a population with specific risks and unique needs for trauma-informed services. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the processes leading maltreated youth to become dually involved in the juvenile justice system and will describe the characteristics of crossover youth with a particular focus on those living in urban settings, including the highly disproportionate representation of ethnic minority youth and girls. Theories and research regarding the underlying developmental processes and trajectories that link childhood maltreatment to adolescent involvement in the juvenile justice system also will be presented. A clinical framework for trauma-informed services and trauma-specific therapeutic and rehabilitative services will then be described, including models for intervening at the levels of systems and institutions, as well as evidence-based approaches for treating traumatized families and individual youths.
In this presentation three experienced clinician-researchers in the field of child traumatic stress highlight the developmental impact of child trauma on early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. Case vignettes describing the treatment of traumatized children and adolescents are used to illustrate the presenters' evidence-based treatment models.
Category: Master Clinicians
In this presentation David Pelcovitz addresses the treatment needs of adolescents who have experienced trauma and still find themselves in challenging situations. He focuses on coping strategies, cultivating awareness, making connections with others, and creating meaning, all components of the SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress) approach.
Category: Master Clinicians
Maya, a 9-year-old girl, was referred for therapy due to numerous instances of domestic violence by her father toward her mother (some of which she witnessed), physical abuse by her father, and possible sexual abuse with no specific disclosures. Both parents have extensive histories of substance abuse, including opioid and amphetamine use. Maya’s father is currently incarcerated for drug and violence-related crimes. Her mother was unable to consistently take care of Maya for the past few years due to substance abuse issues so Maya was removed from her care. Maya has two failed foster home placements due to significant aggressive and sexualized behavior. She is currently residing in a stable foster home and has begun to have monitored visits with her biological mother who was recently discharged from a drug rehabilitation program. Maya has attended therapy with this therapist for only a short time and recently, has begun to demonstrate more trauma-related play. This session illustrates how dysregulation and trauma processing can be exhibited in play, sometimes with significant distress for the child with developmental trauma. The critical dilemma involves to what extent the therapist helps a highly traumatized child to manage her distress versus engage in trauma processing.