Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, April 2020

New name, expanded focus  Welcome to the first edition of the monthly Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes newsletter. While the name of this newsletter has changed, the content is the same. You'll still receive a monthly round-up of the latest behavioral health news, research, and resources. Resilient Wisconsin supports and collaborates with people and organizations throughout Wisconsin, to bring together the latest data, evidence-based tools, and trauma-informed practices. Visit the Resilient Wisconsin website for more information on this new initiative. Check the website frequently for new content.

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• Podcast: Coronavirus: Gabor Maté on how your past is affecting your present 
• Dr, Nadine Burke-Harris shares concerns about the impact COVID-19 is having on blacks
• What will it be like when the lockdown lifts?
• Gender-based violence linked to adverse childhood experiences
• During pandemic, empaths suffer more
• Building resilience won't stop traumatised social workers quitting
• Generational trauma in Milwaukee: 'Even if they can't name it, they feel it'
• Revised abusive head trauma policy calls for continued vigilance, advocacy
• Study: Poverty increases risk for ADHD and learning disabilities 
• Social distancing can impact mental health. How shall we handle it?
• The psychological trauma that awaits our doctors and nurses
• Adverse childhood experiences associated with executive dysfunction post-surgical menopause
• Child sexual abuse expected to rise amid COVID-19 pandemic, experts say
• Inside the adverse childhood experience score: Strengths, limitations, and misapplications
• Childhood sexual, physical abuse increases adulthood lupus risk among black women
• Coronavirus quarantines: What it means to face trauma in a household of one
• Criminal records create cycles of multigenerational poverty

Brain and biology

• How chronic stress changes the brain, and what you can do to reverse the damage
• Can understanding fear-based memories help us forget traumatic events?
• How stress affects the brain during problem solving
• 40 days of mindfulness meditation leads to structural brain changes and improved quality of life
• Neuroscience study indicates mindfulness training can recalibrate the brain's response to fear in school kids

Bullying

Info Sheet: Supporting child well-being through bullying prevention

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• New breed of cop in New Jersey keeps kids on straight and narrow 
• Why Prosecutors need to understand the impact of trauma  

DHS career opportunities

56 current job announcements

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• When new trauma meets old
• PTSD, moral injury increase risk of pregnancy complications
• Self isolation and behavior: What the science says
• New App: PTSD Coach
• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 31/NO. 1, 2020
• Coronavirus patients could suffer from post-intensive care syndrome. What is that?
• PTSD and anger: Untangling the connection
• Autism Spectrum Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: An unexplored co-occurrence of conditions
• Healthcare workers on the front lines of COVID-19 pandemic may be dealing with PTSD in he future
• We need a national mental health response to coronavirus

Resilience

• Resource: The Compassion Curve
• New Guide: A Guide to COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development
• Infographic: What is COVID-19? And How Does it Relate to Child development?
• Secondary trauma and self-care: Indigenous-led healing and native practices
• The ability to regulate your attention may help protect against anxiety symptoms
• How to help your child build resilience against Coronavirus anxiety
• Video: How mindful leaders can heal trauma
• How adversity makes you stronger
• New treatment for childhood anxiety works by changing parent behavior
• Coping with fatigue, fear, and panic during a crisis
• Why empathy is needed now more than ever, especially in healthcare
• Mindfulness training may help people feel less lonely
• How to boost your well-being like an optimist, even if you're not one
• How to take care of yourself when you're a first responder during the coronavirus pandemic
• The pandemic will haunt today's children forever, but we can help them now

Schools

• Trauma can be addressed in schools. Some are trying
• Podcast: Trauma-Informed Care Lens - Interview with Dr. Eric Rossen
• Video: Speaking Up on Teen Stress
• A trauma-informed approach to teaching through coronavirus - for students everywhere, online or not
• Yes, you can do trauma-informed teaching remotely (and you really, really should)
• 2 ways to teach empathy - and why it matters

Substance Use Disorder

Resource: COVID-19 and substance use disorders

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Virtual Networking Meeting
• On-Demand Webinar: The FST Mini-Scale to Improve Client Outcomes: An Online Counseling Example

Trauma-Informed Care

• Free Webinar: A Child's Love Language and Being Unpredictable to Heal Trauma Through Online Counseling
• When is therapy inappropriate after trauma?
• I see you
• Trauma-informed care may ease patient fear, clinician burnout
• New Mexico envisions a trauma-informed foster care system 
• Trauma treatment during the coronavirus pandemic
• What it's like to be a Doula working with black pregnant people right now
• Culturally competent, trauma-informed approaches for working with San Diego's Native American families

Violence

• Shelter-in-place: How it impacts sexual violence
• Telehealth best practices: Online therapy and domestic violence
• Some people are stuck at home with abusers. What can they do?

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