Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Susan Coates, PhD, provided critical mental health services to children and their parents at the Family Assistance Center set up by ...

Here’s a look at the CHOP program helping foster families deal with children’s past trauma and mental health struggles.

The unique symptoms of PTSD in youth, and treatments specific to children after trauma. Exploring how PTSD looks different in children than in adults, what factors contribute to trauma’s long-term ...

Hauser is the author of Vulnerable Minds: The harm of childhood trauma and the hope of resilience, which was published on March 12, 2024 by Penguin-Random House, New York. In 2022, the World Health ...

The catastrophic Camp Fire roared through Northern California’s Butte County in 2018, charring the landscape, taking 86 lives and destroying countless homes and habitats in the town of Paradise. The ...

The results suggest room for improvement in Canadian trauma systems to ensure that all children receive optimal care, ...

Sandy Hook counselors explain how communities should respond and prepare. This is a MedPage Today story. Three days after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, social worker and child ...

When a child is hospitalized, it's often one of the most stressful things their family has ever faced. These strategies can ...

Ketamine could help to treat severe traumatic brain injuries in children, a preliminary study suggests. The results of the study, published in the journal Critical Care Medicine, indicate a potential ...

By age 16, almost two‐thirds of kids have experienced trauma, such as abuse, neglect, natural disasters or sudden loss of a loved one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A psychiatrist shares her experience working with Native communities and how understanding historical trauma can begin the ...

The wildfires that recently ravaged communities in and around Los Angeles were a significantly traumatic experience whose reverberations will continue to be felt well into the future. Children respond ...