Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

• Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-Q) Child
  Center for Youth Wellness
  Many children experience stressful life events that can affect their health and wellbeing. The results from this questionnaire will assist your child’s doctor in assessing their health and determining guidance.
• Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ)
  Georgetown University
  The THQ is a 24-item self-report measure that examines experiences with potentially traumatic events such as crime, general disaster, and sexual and physical assault using a yes/no format. For each event endorsed, respondents are asked to provide the frequency of the event as well as their age at the time of the event.
• Traumatic Stress Screen for Children and Adolescents (TSSCA)
  University of Minnesota
  The TSSCA is intended to assist child-serving professionals in using a trauma screening approach with children ages 5 to 18, who have exposure to a known or suspected traumatic event.
• Youth Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  The Pediatric Symptom Checklist is a brief questionnaire that helps identify and assess changes in emotional and behavioral problems in children.

Evidenced-based Therapy

• List of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Certified Therapists
• Treatment Collaborative for Traumatized Youth
  Roster of agencies and clinicians that helps connect professionals and families to those trained in trauma-specific and evidence-based treatments.

• Trauma Coding Fact Sheet, American Academy of Pediatrics

Read the viewing instructions to learn how to earn CME credit. Recordings are listed in alphabetical order.

• Exposure to Trauma or Loss
  August 18, 2021
  Slides | Video
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Trauma Informed Care
  November 21, 2019
  Slides | Video
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  July 16, 2020
  Slides | Video
• Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
  June 18, 2020
  Slides | Video
• Trauma Screening
  December 12, 2019
  Slides | Video | Resources

Websites

• ACES in Pediatrics
  A social network that supports communities to accelerate the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and to promote trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and to develop resilience in stead of traumatizing already traumatized people.
• ACES Too High
  A news site that reports on research about adverse childhood experiences, including developments in epidemiology, neurobiology, and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress.
• Center for Youth Wellness
  National leader in the effort to advance pediatric medicine, raise public awareness, and transform the way society responds to children exposed to adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress.
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Learning Center offers free learning opportunities and online CEUs.

Fact Sheets

• Trauma and Child Abuse Resource Center
  Child abuse and violence affect millions of children each year. Child abuse includes physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect. Interpersonal violence is violence between people and includes community violence, partner violence (also called “domestic violence”), and bullying.
• Disaster and Trauma Resource Center from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  A child who has been exposed to a disaster may have been an eye-witness to a disaster. He or she might have been hurt or had a family member who was hurt or killed. Children are also exposed to disasters through TV, media, word-of-mouth, or a mixture of these.
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Disasters and Other Traumatic Events: What Parents, Rescue Workers, and the Community Can Do
  This brochure describes common reactions to trauma and what parents, rescue workers, and the community can do to help children and adolescents cope with disasters and other traumatic events.