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Many of our articles are now available in PDF formats.  Click here to download the free software to open PDF files.

Also -- Visit Dr. Perry's section on the Scholastic web site to access additional materials for parents, caregivers & teachers.  Scholastic.com/bruceperry

Permission is required to distribute our materials. Please see instructions for obtaining permission at the bottom of this page.

Parent and Caregiver
Education Series

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We have been preparing materials specifically designed for parents and caregivers. While we plan to continue editing these prefinal pieces, we believe the content is useful in its current state. The following articles are posted for personal use only and are not intended for broad distribution.  These special issues will be posted as we complete them - and will appear out of sequence.

NEW Bonding & Attachment in Maltreated Children  PDF version
Also available - Spanish Translation

Helping Traumatized Children
NEW Click here for new PDF version of this article.

A Child's Loss: Death, Grief & Mourning 
NEW
 
Click here for new PDF version of this article.
Also available - Spanish Translation

Understanding Juvenile and Family Court

 

Child Development
Focused Materials

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The focus of the ChildTrauma Academy has been maltreated or traumatized children.   Despite this, much of our work examining the impact of negative experience on the developing child can be helpful in understanding how all children develop. In this section, some of our work on early childhood and brain development is highlighted.   These materials are special Academy Web versions of content presented elsewhere.

NEW  A Place for Everyone: Nurturing Each Child's Niche
Identify children's individual strengths and needs.

NEW Curiosity: The Fuel of Development
Learn about the cycle of learning and the pleasure that comes from discovery and mastery.

How Sounds Become Words
How to help children learn the true meaning of our most important words.

Attunement: Reading the Rythms of the Child

The Meaning in Words
How children learn to make sense of the language they hear - in conjunction with the actions they see.

Curiosity, Pleasure and Play: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective  This is a web version of an article written for HAAEYC Advocate, a journal for Houston Area Association for the Education of Young Children.

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom An Academy version of  "The Effects of Technology on the Brain" for Scholastic Early Childhood Today, March 1999.

Additional Resources:
Child Development Links

 

Trauma and Maltreatment
Focused Materials

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The majority of the clinical and research work of the ChildTrauma Academy has been with maltreated or traumatized children.  In this section, special Academy Web versions of papers and articles on this topic are presented.

NEW  Neglect in Childhood
An overview for the general reader

Physical Abuse of Children
An overview for the general reader

Sexual Abuse of Children
An overview for the general reader

Principles of Working with Traumatized Children

The Effects of Traumatic Events on Children

Neurodevelopment and the Psychophysiology of Trauma I:  Conceptual Considerations for Clinical Work with Maltreated Children

Neurodevelopment and the Psychophysiology of Trauma II: Clinical Work Along the Alarm-Fear-Terror Continuum

Traumatized Children: The Effects of Trauma on Brain Development  

The Impact of Abuse and Neglect on the Developing Brain

Additional Resources:
Trauma and Maltreatment

Special Topics 
Focused Materials

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Over the last three years, the ChildTrauma Academy has been exploring the impact of unique therapeutic or educational activities on children.  Some highlights of this work are presented here.

Why?
An article for adolescents on school violence and a guide for teachers to use when discussing the article.

Columbine, Killing and You: Use this to talk with your adolescent about violence.

The Art of Healing: The Healing Arts Project

 

Annotated Bibliographies

Music and Movement

Children in Foster Care

 

 

Additional Resources:
Special Topics

Glossary of Terms
Also available - Spanish Translation

* Materials represented on this site are intended for educational purposes.  Authors have provided these materials to help promote the health and welfare of children.  If you are interested in reproducing more than three copies of any single article or intend to reproduce an article in a newsletter or like format, please complete our request form and email it to ChildTrauma1@aol.com for our review.   Requests are considered individually and only granted for nonprofit educational use, as long as copyright and attribution information is retained.  Permission is granted to those persons interested in reproducing fewer than three copies per article, provided that reproduction is for nonprofit educational use and that copyright and attribution information is retained.