Interdisciplinary
Education Series

We have been preparing materials specifically designed for interdisciplinary teams. 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. As these special issues are  posted upon completion, they may appear out of sequence.

TWO NEW
Video Series - Order now!

“Understanding Traumatized and Maltreated Children” is a seven-part series featuring Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and hosted by Art Linkletter. Comprehensive information is presented by Dr. Perry on the primary problems facing maltreated children and dynamic approaches for effective caregiving for professionals and lay people alike.

"The Six Core Strengths for Healthy Childhood Development" is also a seven-part series featuring Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.  Each tape in the series focuses on a key skill and ways to help children acquire that skill, critical to healthy child development: Attachment, Self Regulation, Affiliation, Awareness, Tolerance and Respect.

Order your copy of our video series, or individual videos, now!  

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ARTICLES:

NEW  Children and Loss
What teachers can do to help students cope

Stress,Trauma & Post-traumatic Stress Disorders in Children
NEW Click here for new PDF version of this article.

NEW  The Cost of Caring: Understanding and Preventing Secondary Traumatic Stress

The Vortex of Violence: How Children Adapt and Survive in a Violent World
NEW Click here for new PDF version of this article.

NEW Effects of Traumatic Events on Children: An Introduction

Interdisciplinary Assessment:   An Effective Model for Understanding Maltreated Children

Testifying in Juvenile and Family Court: Preparing for Depositions, Hearings & Trials 
NEW Click here for new PDF version of this article.

OTHER MATERIALS:

Listen to Dr. Perry speak about:
Helping kids cope with grief
Brain research in your classroom
Creating an emotionally safe classroom
Why you can't beat your students at video games   To hear the above Teacher Radio clips, you will need the free RealPlayer 8 Basic .

Brain Development
Focused Materials

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  The Neurosequential Model
This new chapter discusses the neurodevelopmental basis for the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, an approach to clinical assessment, staffing and intervention that has very exciting and promising outcomes with high risk children and youth.

Brain Structure and Function I:
Basics of Organization
Click here for new PDF version of this article.

Brain Structure and Function II:
Special Topics Informing
Work with Maltreated Children
NEW Click here for new PDF version of this article.

NEW  Childhood Experience and the Expression of Genetic Potential: What Childhood Neglect Tells Us About Nature and Nurture

Biological Relativity: Time and the Developing Child

   The Art of Healing:
        The ChildTrauma Healing Arts Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional  materials on Brain Development can be found in our Interdisciplinary Education Series (above left) and in our Brain Development Links

Trauma and Maltreatment
Focused Materials

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.

TWO NEW SLIDE PRESENTATIONS:

The Neurodevelopmental Impact of Childhood Trauma  PDF version

The Neurodevelopmental Impact of Child Maltreatment  PDF version

ARTICLES:

  The Neuroarcheology of Childhood Maltreatment: Our neurodevelopmental perspective on adverse childhood events

Sexual Abuse of Infants: A five-part question focusing on sexual abuse during infancy.

Persisting Psychophysiological Effects of Traumatic Stress: The Memory of 'States'

How States Become Traits: Childhood Trauma, the Neurobiology of Adaptation and Use-dependent of the Brain

Memories of Fear: How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Physiologic States, Feelings, Behaviors and Thoughts from Traumatic Events

Children’s Crisis Care Center Model: A Proactive, Multidimensional Child and Family Assessment Process For Child Protective Services

Homeostasis, Stress, Trauma and Adaptation: A Neurodevelopmental View of Childhood Trauma

Neurodevelopmental Aspects of Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Neurobiological Responses to Threat

Violence
Focused Materials

NEW  " Keep the Cool in School "
Access Anti-Violence materials -- including the "Six Core Strengths" children need to make better choices when faced with violence.

NEW   Trauma and Terror in Childhood:
The Neuropsychiatric Impact of Childhood Trauma

Incubated in Terror: Neurodevelopmental Factors
in the 'Cycle of Violence'
    Also available - Spanish Translation

Aggression and Violence: The Neurobiology of Experience

Neurodevelopmental Adaptations to Violence:  How Children Survive the Intragenerational Vortex of Violence

Additional  materials on Violence can be found in our Interdisciplinary Education Series (above left) as well as the following areas -- Violence & Special Topics