National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

 

Tip Sheet

Understanding Refugee Trauma

This resource includes four fact sheets designed for primary care providers, mental health professionals, school personnel, and those working in or with the child welfare

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This one-pager offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event.

This tip sheet explains the risk and protective factors associated with suicide in refugee children and adolescents and includes a guideline for screening refugee children and adolescents at risk for suicide.

The relationship with a parent is critical to a child’s sense of self, safety, and trust. Separations from parents and siblings— especially under sudden, chaotic, or unpredictable circumstances such as those related to war, refugee, immigration, or detention experiences—may lead children to develop depression, anxiety, or separation-related traumatic stress symptoms. This tip sheet for current […]

This resource includes four fact sheets designed for primary care providers, mental health professionals, school personnel, and those working in or with the child welfare system, and what considerations they need to take into account when working with refugee youth and their families. These fact sheets describe the cultural, child and youth, family, school, and […]

This guide describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.

This tip sheet outlines use of data for discovering best practices for reaching and helping traumatized refugee children that involves collaborations between mental health providers and communities. It also describes how, for a few different NCTSN centers, data sets have convinced them of the enormous potential of data collection has to inform the delivery of […]

This document outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help.

This document describes how school-age children may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help.

This handout provides parents with common reactions after a disaster, ways to respond to those reactions, and examples of things you can say to your adolescent.

This handout provides people with common reactions after a disaster, ways to respond to those reactions, and examples of things you can say to another adult.