Our phone and email support are staffed by
parents of traumatized children who can provide you peer support and suggest the resources we know of that may help your situation.
In controlled studies, over 80 percent
of traumatized children who received TF - CBT experienced significant improvement after 12 to 16 weeks of treatment.
ATN's advocacy efforts include raising awareness in communities and nationally about the
needs of traumatized children for therapeutic interventions and therapeutic parenting, as well as providing input into legislation that impacts traumatized children and their families.
Careful assessments and decisions about children's visits with fathers who are IPV perpetrators are essential to protect and enhance the psychological
health of these traumatized children.
She has a wide variety of clinical experience and specializes in the
treatment of traumatized children, adolescents, families and children with sexualized behaviors.
This treatment is short - term and generally lasts no more than 16 sessions, as more than 80 %
of traumatized children see improvement in this time.
Other Resources: Tax Resources for Families Childhood Adversity Narratives (CAN): Opportunities to Change the
Outcomes of Traumatized Children Services for Families of Infants and Toddlers Experiencing Trauma: A Research - to - Practice Brief Promising Evidence that Early Head Start Can Prevent Child Maltreatment: A Research - to - Practice Brief
We aim to create schools and classrooms that can meet the socioemotional and academic needs of not one or two students who have been exposed to traumatic levels of chronic stress, but the needs of a classroom
full of traumatized children.
The 20 - credit - hour training is web - based and addresses the following issues critical to adopting waiting children: grief and loss, effects and behaviors resulting from exposure to domestic violence, parenting abused and neglected children, parenting children across racial and cultural lines, and the sexual
behaviors of traumatized children.
Describe the signs and symptoms of posttraumatic stress response in children, and explain how this delayed response functions and is manifested in the
lives of traumatized children.
Resources include training curricula and materials for child welfare caseworkers on trauma, including information on assessing and treating trauma in children and youth, supporting
caregivers of traumatized children, addressing secondary trauma, and more.
This session explores how Child - Parent Psychotherapy is being applied in child care programs, home visiting, and other systems to foster the healthy
development of traumatized children and parents.
Featuring in - depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable
capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process.
Participants will learn ways to use nature in school - based play therapy to address the effects of trauma in the body, mind, heart and
spirit of traumatized children.
We believe in the vast majority of these families, when parents are given the right support, education and access to therapies / interventions, they are able to make great strides in the
healing of traumatized children and those with attachment disorder.
I work with a
lot of traumatized children who, when they are not yet ready to engage in expressive play, enjoy hiding the pennies in the sand.
Define ways in which integrative approaches to play therapy meets the emotional needs of a traumatized child
This one day workshop will provide participants with an overview of a creative and comprehensive four - phase model for the
treatment of traumatized children and youth using trauma - informed expressive arts.
PRIDE Model of Practice (Parent Resource for Information, Development, and Education) is a competency - based model of practice designed to strengthen the quality of family foster care and adoption services by developing and supporting foster and adoptive families who are willing, able, and have the resources to meet the needs
of traumatized children and their families.
Donate: All donations go toward helping families
of traumatized children find resources, support, and education or to make the VOICE of traumatized children heard.
ATN's Official Policy on Treatment: ATN encourages all parents
of traumatized children to seek professional therapy for their children that is trauma - sensitive and attachment - focused.
At ATN we have researched all the parenting strategies taught to parents
of traumatized children and recognize that many parents find one particular strategy works better than another, or maybe works better during a specific developmental period, or for one child but not another.
Supporting foster and adoptive families who are willing, able, and have the resources to meet the needs
of traumatized children and their families
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a treatment approach for families
of traumatized children or those with disorders of attachment.
This letter is available for any parent
of a traumatized child, or child with attachment issues, to download and share.
Upon Nancy Spoolstra's retirement in 2009, Julie Beem, a long - time ATN volunteer, parent
of a traumatized child and successful business owner took over the Executive Director role.