Practical Strategies for Implementing Trauma-Informed Care

• 2024

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• Khadijia Reid; Brooks Keeshin; Lindsay Abdulahad; Rachel Gilgoff; Deborah Rodriguez; Heather Forkey

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This course equips pediatricians with the skills to identify and respond to childhood trauma and traumatic stress, emphasizing the importance of relational health in child development. Building on foundational trauma-informed care concepts, it offers practical strategies for regulating caregivers, recognizing trauma symptoms across different age groups, and understanding when psychotropic medications are indicated. The course also addresses how caregiver trauma, stress, and substance use can disrupt caregiving networks. Pediatricians will learn interventions for trauma-informed care and how to support resilience in children and adolescents through a deeper understanding of trauma's impact on health and development.

Continuing Education: This resource offers continuing education credit for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Please access the resource for details including information on how to claim credit.

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Focus Area: Trauma

Audiences: EMS Clinicians; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Bundles: Continuing Education; Continuing Education for Nurses; Continuing Education for Physicians

Keywords: Allied Health Personnel; Child Development; Parent-Child Relations; Pediatrics; Physicians; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychotropic Drugs; Caregivers; Stress, Physiological; Resilience, Psychological; Psychological Trauma

Institutions: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

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