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

Finding healthy ways to cope with challenges is more important than ever. Resilient Wisconsin offers strategies for practicing self-care, maintaining social connections, and reducing stress and anxiety.

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• Childhood complex trauma: Effects and therapy
• There's no such thing as a bad kid
• Historical racial and ethnic health inequities account for disproportionate COVID-19 impact
• Pandemic sets off future wave or worsening mental health issues
• Social media use linked with depression, secondary trauma during COVID-19
• Adverse childhood experiences: What coaches can do
• Physician suicide is a daily occurrence
• New study aims to understand trauma in Milwaukee youth
• Can you inherit anxiety or depression?
• Post-infection depressive, anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms: a retrospective cohort study with mild COVID-19 patients
• Five ways trauma and poverty affect childhood development
• Effects of poverty on childhood development seen in children as young as 5
• One-third of young people in low and middle income countries have lost a sibling

Brain and biology

• Novel neuroimaging study on dissociative symptoms reveals wounds of childhood trauma
• Impact of childhood violence on neural development

Bullying

Childhood intrafamilial aggression, peer bullying linked to adult depression

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• 'I cry before work': US essential workers burned out amid pandemic
• The relationship between the types of traumatic events and well-being, post-trauamtic stress levels and gender differences in Syrian patients: A cross-sectional controlled study
• Study shows post-traumatic stress disorder is common in care home workers
• COVID-19 and collective trauma
• Nurture trumps nature in determining severity of PTSD symptoms
• Contending with employees' pandemic-related stress

Resilience

• Starting the healing process from sexual trauma
• Five tips for fostering resiliency in children
• Lifetime experiences help older adults build resilience to pandemic trauma
• Fostering resiliency ensures well-being of healthcare workforce
• How sports and the arts help kids deal with traumatic situations
• Post-traumatic growth might be the silver lining of trauma - Here is how to harness it

Substance use disorder

Associations between prenatal cannabis exposure and childhood outcomes

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Implementation: School-wide Implementation
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Networking Meeting FREE
• Compassion Curve Virtual Gathering FREE

Trauma-informed care

• Webinar: Family Trauma Solutions for Children with Oppositional and Defiant Behavior
• What parents need to know about trauma, college, and COVID
• Report: Early, equitable, and trauma responsive care for chronic pain and mental health
• COVID-19: Trauma-informed perinatal care and maternal health
• How trauma-informed are we, really?
• The importance of care coordination
• E-modules increase knowledge, attitude and confidence related to childhood adversity and trauma-informed care

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