Trauma Resources

Here are some resources and tools for supporting trauma in your families. I’ve created a book list as well, but I’m giving that its own post, since it’s quite long.

I’m going to try to add to and update this resource as I find new things, so you might book mark this page and check back. You can also subscribe for updates.

Articles, videos and more

• My shared google drive folder with related files

• The connection archive from Karyn Purvis

• Attachment Style Evaluation from Dan Siegel

• Attachment style summary article  

• Remember, Sad Can Look Mad

• Learning to Tame Big Feelings

• Sensory Help - The Upside Down Solution

• Childhood Sexual Abuse and Brain Development

• The Effects of Stress on Memory

• The Kids We Lose - Film

• Youth In Foster Care Study

• Mary Dozier on Attachment

• CTA Sensitization & Tolerance

• CTA Threat Response Patterns

• CTA The Human Brain

• Altered Brain Development Following Global Neglect

• Original ACES study

• ACEs Survey

• Maltreatment and the Developing Child

• Memories of Fear - How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Physiologic States,
  Feelings, Behaviors and Thoughts from Traumatic Events by Bruce Perry

• Helping Traumatized Children

• Stress, Trauma & Post Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children

• Laura van Dernoot Lipsky’s How to Manage a Day graphic

• Laura van Dernoot Lipsky’s Tiny Survival Guide graphic

• Laura van Dernoot Lipsky’s Signs of Trauma Exposure graphic

Food and Nutrition

• http://adoptionnutrition.org/

Videos

• 10 Questions Adoptive Parents Ask

• Give your Child Playfulness

• Play is more than just fun

• Is it Adoption Related or Not?

• Total Voice Control

Conferences and Trainings

• Attach Conference

• CAFO

• ReFresh

• NMT with Bruce Perry

• TBRI @ The Institute of Child Development

• Mindsight Institute

• PESI

Podcasts

• Empowered to Connect (Karyn Purvis Content)

• Confessions of an Adoptive Parent

Games & Activities

• Play hide and seek. This promotes eye contact in a non-threatening context As an added bonus this also develops object permanence.

• Put lotion on each other.

• Play a memory game but with a more personal touch. First, have your child look you over very carefully. Then leave the room and return after you’ve changed something about yourself. See if s/he can figure out what is different. It could be something really obvious for younger kids, like taking off a sweater, but for older kids you could get more challenging, like buttoning one more button on the sweater.

• Create a pillow jumping maze. Set up pillow islands in a pattern across the floor. Have your child start at one end while you are at the other. S/he can only start to cross the room when you say “go” (you could say “mo” or “lo” to make things more challenging and teach him/her to be more attentive).  After given the green light, your child must jump across the islands and into your arms.

• Brushing Hair

• Name it to Tame It

Outside Help

• The Family Hope Center here

Game Changing Strategies

• Routines and traditions

• The timer on your cell phone

• Narrate the activity

• Don’t try to solve conflict when impulse control and emotions are high. Address the real need in the moment, and then confront the behavior later.

• Focus on the positive. Be specific

• Give choices