Youth and Adolescents Articles
Wired for Survival: How Childhood Trauma Rewrites the Brain
Return to TPN Main Page With nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults reporting exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) before age 18 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2024), trauma psychology sits at a critical intersection. These potentially traumatic events (PTEs) occur during childhood and/or adolescence (CDC, 2024), and carry longterm, costly impacts at the…
Read MoreTrauma Wears a Hall Pass: Corporal Punishment in our Schools
Trauma Wears A Hall Pass: Corporal Punishment In Our Schools Kristina Schoenthaler Section Editor: Kiara Tookes-Williams Peer Reviewers: Molly Becker, Olivia Jackson, Jasmine Merlette, Zaine Roberts Advisor: Antonella Bariani When working with children in the welfare system, I often ask a simple but powerful question: “If you had a magic wand that could fix all…
Read MoreBook review: Headwaters Series
By Headwaters Headwaters has authored several books to help children and families process disaster-related grief and loss and develop coping skills. The books have been translated into over 15 languages and have addressed the earthquake in Haiti, the typhoon in the Philippines, Ebola in West Africa, trafficking and girls’ empowerment in Nepal, earthquakes and hurricanes…
Read MoreStorytelling to Support Children’s Recovery from Disasters
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford & Rebecca Hage Thomley Natural disasters occur suddenly and unexpectedly, but these relatively common events have the potential to cause severe community disruption, displacement, economic loss, property damage, death and injury, and profound emotional suffering. The traumatic consequences of disasters affect children psychologically, spiritually, cognitively, behaviorally, and socially with long-term impacts on their…
Read MoreNavigating Perceptions of Child Abuse with Culturally Diverse Families In A Trauma-Informed & Strengths-Based Way
Elizabeth K. Lee In the United States, approximately 1 out of 7 children is identified as having experienced child abuse within the past year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). In 2021, this equated to approximately 600,000 children (National Children’s Alliance, 2023). A recent report by UNICEF (2021), estimated that globally, around 80% of…
Read MoreCreating Connections: Training Competencies for Practitioners Supporting Traumatized LGBTQ+ Youth
Stephany Pinales & Mariah Montgomery Stickley In 2020, approximately 9% of adolescents between 13 and 17 years of age identified themselves as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, while nearly one percent of the population surveyed (.73%) identified as transgender (Bowleg, 2020). Considering the social, cultural, and spiritual influences placed upon youth in their development, these numbers…
Read MoreBook Review – Posttraumatic play in children: What clinicians need to know
By Eliana Gil2017The Guilford Press Eliana Gil’s gentle and sensitive approach to children and their families is evident throughout her book on posttraumatic play therapy. She calls her approach Trauma-Focused Integrative Play Therapy (TFIPT). Dr. Gil aims her book towards clinicians, mainly focusing on complex, chronic, and ‘unrelenting’ Type II traumas, which include multiple types…
Read MoreIntegrating familismo into evidence-based trauma therapies to increase treatment engagement among Latine youth
Yesenia Aguilar Silvan & Lauren C. NgSection Editor: Antonella BarianiPeer Reviewers: Linda Zheng & Molly Becker Trauma Exposure Disparities for Latine Youth By age 17, 46% of youth in the United States will have experienced at least one potentially traumatic event such as community violence or family separation (Sacks & Murphey, 2018). This major public…
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