Talking to children and young people about trauma

Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network, Australia

Related to Bereavement, loss and grief

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This fact sheet provides information about talking to children and young people about trauma.

It includes information on the following topics:

‘How do we talk to a child about whether they have experienced trauma and how do we help them to sit with this trauma?’
‘So how do you ask about trauma?’
‘Helping the child’

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Talking to children and young people about trauma

Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network, Australia

Discover more resources

Child development and trauma

Caring for kids after a traumatic event

Children in the short term after a disaster or traumatic event

What is a practice nurse?

What is a family law counsellor?

Child-centred approaches to supporting children in out-of-home care

How to support parents with intellectual disability to meet their parenting goals

Culturally responsive strategies for promoting children’s health and wellbeing across diverse communities (part two)

Culturally responsive understandings for promoting children’s health and wellbeing across diverse communities (part one)

Emerging Minds Focus framework summaries

Sleep health and sleep inequities in children

Children’s mental health when experiencing multiple adversities: Practice skills for effective conversational maps

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