Resilience and Child Traumatic Stress

• 2016

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This four-page fact sheet provides questions and answers about child traumatic stress and resilience, which is the ability of a child to recover and show early and effective adaptation following a potentially traumatic event. Topics include what resilience looks like in children, what factors might enhance resilience in children after traumatic events, and some initial steps to enhance recovery during treatment or services.

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Focus Area: Trauma

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Families & Children; Public Health Professionals; Schools & Childcare Providers

Emergency Management Stages: Response; Recovery

Keywords: Child; Psychology, Child; Child Welfare; Family Characteristics; Social Support; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Resilience, Psychological; Psychological Trauma

Institutions: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

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