Hi there,
I am compiling a list of Trauma Responsive tools, websites, Resources, Books, etc. What are some of your favourites. I am also from Canada, so any Canadian resources are also very welcome.
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Good morning (here in the Netherlands), Kara! I cannot answer your question (would love to have an answer to it myself... hahaha), but are you in touch with Elizabeth Perry from ACEs Canada...? I know she really looks forward to finding more people to work with in Canada! Wishing you much luck (together)!
Thank you for this. I will reach out to her for sure. Thanks.
See the Missouri Model and white papers created. All the best! Ladonna Beachy, LCSW
Trauma Informed Care Coordinator, Fulton State Hospital, Department of Mental Health
I suggest these seminal authors for that:
Drs Robert Scaer, Stephen Porges, Bessell van Der Kolk, Gabor Mate, Dan Siegel, Peter Levine - several books by each.
For added insights and help on preventing trauma memory encoding, I'd also put in Self-Reg by Dr.Stuart Shanker and Childhood Disrupted, by Donna Jackson Nakazawa.
I humbly add my own, for that same purpose (in-the-moment or soon-thereafter interventions to quickly ground, re-regulate and therefor prevent traumatic memory encoding):
Compassion In Action: Emotional First-Aid for Children, by Deborah Miller PhD and myself, Jondi Whitis, MTOT
321 Insight has a toolkit for schools: www.321insight.com/trauma. It's video based with job-specific guides for all adults in the district.
Check out Dr. Stephanie Covington. We, at Hazelden Publishing, print a number of her resources and she is renown in this field. Her website is: https://www.stephaniecovington.com/ and you can find a number of her resources on our site: https://www.hazelden.org/store/publicpage/trauma
I would stick with the evidence-based approaches. Some of the trauma "superstars" don't make that cut. These sites might help:
https://www.samhsa.gov/child-t...ild-traumatic-stress
RAINN | The nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization
Right now, I am reading a good book called Building Resilience With Appreciative Inquiry by Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell. Its a very practical read with lots of tools on how to apply appreciative inquiry principles to move through hope, despair and forgiveness. It even has an agenda at the end of the book for leading your own workshop. Their website is: cockellmcarthur-blair.com.
Here is a resource from Canada:
N. Poole, & L. Greaves (eds). Becoming Trauma Informed. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 2012.
In addition to the treatment materials that Alice mentioned above, there are also book chapters and articles on my website https://www.stephaniecovington.com/
Added note: you will also find the research reports (from various university-based researchers) on the treatment programs mentioned above at
Other books really useful in the school setting:
Help for Billy - Heather Forbes
Helping Traumatized Children Learn - Massachusetts Advocates for Children
Beyond Behaviors - Mona Delahooke
Bruce Perry has a great set of videos he's made available for COVID: https://www.neurosequential.com/covid-19-resources
Underneath all of this I think we need real systems work. I highly recommend Peter Senge's Schools that Learn and Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity by Cobb and Krownapple. Also Zaretta Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain
At school one needs to ask, what is resilience and how do you build it? Our approach is an integration of SEL and Discipline (so students see SEL in action - even when the going gets rough) and into that, add trauma informed practices and culturally responsive teaching. You end up moving away from compliance into community - away from punishments and rewards into a culture of growth and repair and internal motivation.... it is quite a culture shift - and it makes a difference.
Hello;
I teach Resiliency trainings for diverse disciplines across the US and the attached resource list is sorted by each of the five core elements of the resilience training listed below. It has been contributed to by various colleagues. I hope you find it helpful!
You can find much of this information in our Resources Center on ACEsConnection.com. And we'll add the ones we don't have from your suggestions!
Thank you!
www.aceovercomers.org is a source for evidence based programs for the general public and the faith community.
Faith based Online training is available at: https://aceovercomers.thinkific.com/courses/oadc
I would point you in the direction of Dr. Michael Unger's work on Resilience at Dalhousie University in Candada.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Hi Kara, The Campaign For Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP.org) Board has identified their favorite resources on our website and you can find them here http://www.ctipp.org/trauma-informed-resources/
Hi Kara,
I wrote "Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom: How to Build Resilience and Overcome Anxiety" with 35 super simple ways to calm stress and anxiety. Most of the techniques are simple enough to teach children. During these challenging times, it is even harder for people to take time to meditate or practice mindfulness, so simple ways are what's going to work best. It's available through Amazon.
Stay well!
@Kara Fry posted:Hi there,
I am compiling a list of Trauma Responsive tools, websites, Resources, Books, etc. What are some of your favourites. I am also from Canada, so any Canadian resources are also very welcome.
Hi Kara,
Here are two books; one is mine and the other is from my colleagues in Canada.
Through a Trauma Lens: Transforming Health and Behavioral Health Care Systems, Vivian Brown, 2018, Routledge
Poole & Graves (Eds) Becoming Trauma-Informed, Vancouver, BC
Here are two books; one is mine and the other is done by my colleagues in Canada:
1. Brown, Vivian (2018) Through a Trauma Lens: Transforming Health and Behavioral HealthCare Systems, Routledge.
2. Poole & Graves (2012) Becoming Trauma-Informed, Vancouver, BC
Thanks so much for all of the amazing suggestions.
@Stephanie Dalfonzo posted:Hi Kara,
I wrote "Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom: How to Build Resilience and Overcome Anxiety" with 35 super simple ways to calm stress and anxiety. Most of the techniques are simple enough to teach children. During these challenging times, it is even harder for people to take time to meditate or practice mindfulness, so simple ways are what's going to work best. It's available through Amazon.
Stay well!
Thanks for this. Looks great.
@Gayle Thom posted:Hello;
I teach Resiliency trainings for diverse disciplines across the US and the attached resource list is sorted by each of the five core elements of the resilience training listed below. It has been contributed to by various colleagues. I hope you find it helpful!
- Self-Knowledge and Insight
- Sense of Hope
- Healthy Coping
- Strong Relationships
- Personal Perspective and Meaning
HI there, I didn't see a list attached? Maybe I missed it.
https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/podcasts/
One of the commenters to this post Jondi Whitis was interviewed.
Thank you, Rich Featherly, for mentioning one of my interviews off the Trauma Therapist podcast. : ) I am hopeful we will do another on the Compassion In Action book, too! : )
Roots of Empathy: changing the world child by child by Mary Gordon. Also Canadian I believe. https://us.rootsofempathy.org/research/
Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz
These authors seem to agree that Empathy is the most viable approach to dealing with trauma, and their arguments are compelling .
