Child Traumatic Stress
Culture Shift – Spreading Trauma-Informed Care Across a Health System
March 9, 2017
The VPI@CHOP team recently published results of a QI study on implementing trauma-informed care training across CHOP.
Our Most Popular Posts 2016
December 28, 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, let's take a look back at Research in Action's most popular posts in the last year.
New Brief Screening Tools for Posttraumatic Stress
December 7, 2016
Read about new CIRP@CHOP research about a tool that can help busy clinicians, school nurses, and others seeing in service settings screen for posttraumatic stress in children.
Research Tool Aims to Help Children Recover After Injury
October 24, 2016
Learn about a new CIRP@CHOP research tool that aims to help researchers better understand how parents and children interact after an injury.
AAP Releases New Policy Statement on Improving Pediatric Injury Care
September 19, 2016
Last month the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a Policy Statement on Management of Pediatric Trauma to guide a comprehensive approach for improving outcomes for injured children. With 20 million children injured each year in the US, this guidance is timely and much needed. In this post, Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD shares key points from the statement that highlight the need to attend to the emotional recovery of injured children.
New Resource Alert: Medical Traumatic Stress Guide for Working with Children in Foster Care
August 24, 2016
A new resource developed by the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress in partnership with Northeast Treatment Centers supports nurses and clinicians that provide care to patients in the child welfare system. The online course provides a 1.0 Continuing Education Credit for nurses.
How Do Our Communities Recover from Recent Shooting Deaths?
July 11, 2016
Guest Blogger Krista Mehari, PhD provides perspective to help Research & Action community to process and cope with recent shootings.
Consider a Public Health Approach to Traumatic Stress Prevention
March 30, 2016
The vast population-level impact of trauma exposure among children and youth provides a compelling example of the need for a public health approach to preventing posttraumatic stress among the young.
Reducing the Impact of a Potentially Traumatic Event
March 14, 2016
Pediatric healthcare providers have the unique opportunity to impact the reactions of families and patients to a potentially traumatic event (PTE). This blog post shares how to guide patients to reframe their thoughts and to foster resilience by practicing trauma-informed care.
New Resource Alert: Medical Traumatic Stress Guide for Mental Health Professionals
February 23, 2016
A new guide developed by the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress guides mental health professionals working with children impacted by medical traumatic stress.