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  • 1: Using a strengths-based approach; building empathy
  • 2: Listening to children’s voices
  • 3: Care; resilience; protective factors
  • 4: Parenting from different states/continents; sharing
  • 5: Fostering children's language about parents working away
  • 6: Building children’s understanding of parents working away; communication
  • 7: Developing children’s narratives, creating digital narratives
  • 8: Supporting family household transitions
  • 9: Emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parents working away
  • 10: Social responses to parents working away
  • 11: Links to the community
  • 12: Relationship breakdown
  • 13: Addictions; grief; loss; change
  • 14: Abuse (domestic voilence, child abuse, neglect)
  • 15: Service related injuries or medical conditions
  • 16: Service related mental health conditions and moral injury
  • Module 17: When a parent dies
  • 18: Child and family trauma
  • 19: And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story
  • 20: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story
  • 21: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's Story
  • 22: Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals?
  • 23: Transitioning from service life; changing careers
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  • 18: Child and family trauma

    18: Child and family trauma

    • This module explores trauma and how parents' work-related (or service-related) trauma can be passed on to children. It is useful for family workers and social workers supporting children of military, veteran and first responder families.

      About trauma

    • Video: What is trauma? (5 minutes) Video: What is trauma? (5 minutes)
    • How children and families experience trauma How children and families experience trauma
    • Impacts on children and the secondary transfer of trauma

    • Childhood trauma and the brain (5 minutes) Childhood trauma and the brain (5 minutes)
    • Transfer of trauma within families Transfer of trauma within families
    • Signs of trauma in young children Signs of trauma in young children
    • Trauma and the nervous system (9 minutes) Trauma and the nervous system (9 minutes)
    • Book review: A useful book about the impacts of trauma Book review: A useful book about the impacts of trauma
    • Post Traumatic Stress

      Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is better described as PTS, without the 'disorder'. Many people who have PTS, think the word 'disorder' is unfair because it sounds as if there is something wrong with them, rather than something traumatic has happened.

    • When does mental distress become a mental illness? When does mental distress become a mental illness?
    • More about PTSD and children's resources More about PTSD and children's resources
    • The psychology of PTSD (5 minutes) The psychology of PTSD (5 minutes)
    • 12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD (2 minutes) 12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD (2 minutes)
    • 12 signs of complex PTSD (8 minutes) 12 signs of complex PTSD (8 minutes)
    • Supporting children to recover from trauma
    • Trauma support for children Trauma support for children
    • Triggers - how they work and how to reduce their effects (7 minutes) Triggers - how they work and how to reduce their effects (7 minutes)
    • How to overcome trauma (5 minutes) How to overcome trauma (5 minutes)
    • Hypervigilance and how to overcome it (5 minutes) Hypervigilance and how to overcome it (5 minutes)
    • How the brain adapts to adversity (8 minutes) How the brain adapts to adversity (8 minutes)
    • Support services and community organisatons Support services and community organisatons
    • Trauma-informed practices

    • Animation: Getting yourself right before you can support others (4 minutes) Animation: Getting yourself right before you can support others (4 minutes)
    • The Basics: Trauma informed principles and practices (17 minutes) The Basics: Trauma informed principles and practices (17 minutes)
    • Trauma informed care for social workers (22 minutes) Trauma informed care for social workers (22 minutes)
    • Recognising the symptoms of trauma (3 minutes) Recognising the symptoms of trauma (3 minutes)
    • Explainer animation using a hand model about amygdala for children (2 minutes) Explainer animation using a hand model about amygdala for children (2 minutes)
    • Animation: Helping children see the positives in their lives (4 minutes) Animation: Helping children see the positives in their lives (4 minutes)
    • Preventative programs and behaviours

    • The Resilience Project The Resilience Project
    • Free resources: Supporting children through natural disasters and climate emergencies Free resources: Supporting children through natural disasters and climate emergencies

      This site has free storybooks (in a number of languages), educational activities and animations to support children's understanding and recovery from traumatic weather events. It also builds children's empathy for those who are impacted by such events.

    • The link between poor mental health, depression, anxiety and diet The link between poor mental health, depression, anxiety and diet

      Episode 3 of this series explores the link to processed food and poor mental health and how this can be easily reversed. (N.B. iView programs are free, but you might need to sign up for a free account. Once you have watched the program, you can then cancel the account if you wish to).

    • Children's Resources


      To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:

      1. Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, audio and video read-along versions, extension teaching activities, and printable teaching materials. This book is layered so it can be used from preschool age, right through to upper primary school-aged children.

      2. In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, audio and video read-along versions, extension teaching activities, and printable teaching materials. This book is layered so it can be used from preschool age, right through to upper primary school-aged children.


    • Index

    • I found a small error (e.g. link that won't work, typo, grammar, spelling, terminology) I found a small error (e.g. link that won't work, typo, grammar, spelling, terminology)
    • General feedback for this module General feedback for this module
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