Play is an integral part of the human experience which allows children to explore their surroundings and develop new skills and relationships. For children who have experienced trauma, play therapy techniques can be used to help them process the adverse event(s) and learn to regulate their emotions...

Inter/Generational trauma is trauma that moves from one generation to the next within families, impacting people in a variety of ways. It can be taught explicitly or learned implicitly through beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes. Oftentimes, a youth, caregiver, or family can be affected by a traumatic...

Generally speaking, resilience is the ability to adapt in the face of extreme trauma and adversity. Resiliency is not an individual trait that young people have or don’t have.  It is a process that entails a set of skills that help children, youth and adults increase their capacity to grow, heal...

Although there’s an extensive history of research and scholarship on resilience and youth, our understanding of the term can sometimes be unclear and challenging to translate into practice.  What can seem like a sign of strength and resilience to one practitioner can seem the opposite to anot...

The behavioral healthcare system has embraced the importance of understanding the role of adversity, trauma and resilience on one’s overall health and wellbeing. Much of the information about trauma and resilience has focused on the psychological, behavioral and physical health consequences of tra...

The goal of trauma-informed screening is to create a safe space to talk about trauma and toxic stress while simultaneously avoiding re-traumatizing children or their parent/caregivers. In this webinar, Dr. Crawford discusses conducting trauma screening in children’s mental health along with her me...

The Foundations of Trauma Informed Care Self-Learning Program intended to provide an on-boarding and training tool that contains basic and universal information about Trauma Informed Care (TIC) that can be used across human service sectors (e.g. health, behavioral health, child welfare, and social s...

There is an increasing understanding that trauma is pervasive and impacts many people across and within various communities. Social workers, in a variety of settings, often interact with clients who have a history of trauma. When aware of the complexity and the effects of trauma on presenting proble...

Trauma informed care requires a thorough understanding of resilience.  Just as the trauma informed care movement has grown parallel to research on the human stress response, a third area of research is also beginning to increase: the neurobiology of resilience.  In this brief webinar we will prov...

According to the APA, “Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress.”  Resilience is a critically important concept with implications for programs that provide services to people across the developmental spectrum...