Increase Psychoeducation
- Recommend team to increase psychoeducation on the effects of trauma for a trauma-informed approach
- For example, trauma-informed ways to view the youth’s behavior includes asking, “what is the youth communicating when they behave in this manner?”
- Examples of trauma-informed ways to assess dysregulating behaviors:
- Is the youth’s current threshold level not matched with the activity?
- Has the youth been participating in this activity for too long?
- Is the youth having difficulties communicating their thoughts with words?
- Does the youth have sensory difficulties associated with the environment?
Psychoeducational Resources:
Online professional development opportunities are available for teams/family/providers supporting youth through DODD MyLearning. This training is designed for those persons working with multi-system youth who have complex behavioral health needs.
Designed for those who support, instruct, work with, or live with someone with autism, the Autism Internet Modules (AIM) guide users through case studies, instructional videos, pre- and post-assessments, discussion questions, activities, and more. The user is required to create a free account in order to access the modules.
The Wellness Project is a collection of resources and practices to support and enhance your individual and organizational wellness and resilience. It includes a holistic system of wellness activities such as reading, listening, watching, cooking, connecting, moving, breathing, and resting.
An educational resource for coordinated, family-centric behavioral health care. Developed for both health providers and families to better understand the unique challenges associated with a child’s specific diagnosis and managing symptoms.
Building Regulation and Co-Regulation:
Provides guidance on use of evidence-based supports that facilitate discovery and validation of each person’s unique interoception experience which in turn empowers people with self-understanding, self-regulation, health, well-being and social connection.
This brief builds on reviews of the theoretical and intervention literature to provide caregivers and program administrators with guidelines for effective co-regulation support at each stage of development. Based on work conducted by the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), described in a series of four reports referenced throughout the brief.
Grief Support Resources:
Supports children experiencing grief of all kinds through facilitated peer groups within their communities.
Provide support and training to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.
Recorded presentation by Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.
A compilation of articles, books and blogs available to supplement your knowledge, skills and abilities to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they grieve anticipated and/or experienced losses through others or their own processes of death and dying.
Trauma-Informed Practice:
Trauma-competent Care (TCC) Initiative:
Online resources for practitioners, facilities, and agencies to become competent in trauma-informed practices. Provided by the Ohio Departments of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and Developmental Disabilities (DODD) statewide TCC Initiative.
The purpose of the Resilience Project is to help children and young adults who have experienced some sort of trauma.
A Companion Guide to Growing Resilience
This companion guide is an e-book where each page is packed with learning materials centered on the path toward resilience for the entire team.
Juvenile Justice Resources:
An orientation guide for staff members who are new to providing competency restoration services within the Ohio state psychiatric hospital system.
The Casey Foundation advances practices and policies that improve the lives of children, young people and families.
Domestic Violence Resources:
Resources to use with youth and family who have experienced trauma and violence in relationships.
Resources to help child welfare and other professionals become domestic violence informed.
Reunification Resources:
This guide describes steps for reuniting families in which an adolescent has sexually abused an immediate family member (often a younger sibling), or other family member living in the home, and subsequently has been placed outside of the home. The goal of reunification is to safely return the adolescent home and to full participation in family life following or during treatment.
Book Recommendations:
Trauma-informed Reading: What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, and Oprah Winfrey
Treatment team members may find ideas and support in: Treating Explosive Kids, The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. and J. Stuart Ablon
Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning by Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie C. Dietzel
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