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Virtual Learning Library

The Trauma and Grief (TAG) Center's Virtual Learning Library offers free webinars and resources focusing on childhood trauma and grief to key audiences: parents and caregivers, mental health clinicians, educators, health care providers, law enforcement, and other professionals working with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma and loss.

A Special Thanks

The Virtual Learning Library was developed with philanthropic investment from our partner, the New York Life Foundation.

The Hackett Center Trauma and Grief Center Learning Library
Featured Resource

How to Help Children After a School Shooting

Guidance and tips for parents and caregivers on talking to youth and helping decrease their distress in the aftermath of a school shooting.

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Trauma & Grief Focused Webinars

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Supporting Children in the Aftermath of Tragedy

This training shares ways caregivers and educators can support children in the aftermath of a traumatic event, including mass violence, and provides strategies to promote resilience in those helping to support children.

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Supporting Immigrant Youth Exposed to Trauma & Loss

How do we support immigrant youth exposed to trauma and loss? This webinar provides an overview of trauma and grief and explores the importance of distinguishing between the two. Dr. Mendez discusses the unique needs of immigrant youth and clinical implications for mental health providers working with them.

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Seminario Web

Apoyando a Jóvenes Inmigrantes Expuestos a Trauma y Pérdidas

¿Cómo apoyamos a los jóvenes inmigrantes expuestos al trauma y pérdidas? Este seminario web proporciona una descripción general del trauma y el duelo y explora la importancia de distinguir entre los dos. La Dra. Méndez examina las necesidades únicas de los jóvenes inmigrantes y las implicaciones clínicas para los proveedores de salud mental que trabajan con esta población.

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Supporting Students Exposed to Trauma & Grief: Tips for Teachers

What exactly does it mean to be “trauma- and grief-informed”? This presentation seeks to answer this question and more, providing concrete strategies for teachers to implement in their classroom to help create a safe environment that fosters resilience and connections with students.

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The Cost of Caring: Supporting the Supporters

During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators, mental health clinicians, and health care providers have had the strenuous task of caring for their students, clients, or patients, while caring for their own families and themselves. This presentation explores the ways our work as helping professionals impacts us individually. Participants will be given tools to decrease the risk for compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and burn-out.

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Manifestations of Grief in Children & Adolescents: Applications for Pediatricians

How do we best support a child who is grieving? This training explores key considerations for health care providers working with bereaved youth and their families.

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Understanding & Supporting Grieving Youth: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach

A “one-size-fits-all” approach to grief support is typically ineffective. Professionals must decide which type of grief support and practice elements are most appropriate based on the unique needs and strengths of the children they serve. This workshop describes specific bereavement-related challenges that youth typically face after the death of a loved one and reviews evidence-based practices that can support them.

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Addressing Childhood Trauma & Grief to Promote Child & Family Resilience

This presentation examines how trauma and grief reactions manifest in children and adolescents, especially in the context of the pandemic, and how they impact learning and behavior, particularly within under-resourced communities. Dr. Kaplow provides guidance to educators, youth-serving organizations, and caregivers about trauma- and grief-informed best practices.

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Handle With Care Program Trainings

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Handle With Care Program: for Educators and School-based Clinicians

The Handle With Care program helps identify and address trauma and grief in schools. This webinar for educators provides an introduction to the program, a high-level overview of how trauma and grief present in the classroom, and information on strategies for supporting students.

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Handle With Care Program: for Non-instructional School Staff

The Handle With Care program helps identify and address trauma and grief in schools. This webinar for educators provides an introduction to the program, a high-level overview of how trauma and grief present in the classroom, and information on strategies for supporting students.

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Seminario Web

Identificando y Abordando el Trauma y el Duelo en las Escuelas: El Programa Tratar con Cuidado

Este seminario web para el personal escolar no-instructivo brinda una descripción general del Programa Tratar con Cuidado, incluyendo los antecedentes y la justificación, e información sobre estrategias para apoyar a los estudiantes que han sido expuestos a traumas y/o pérdidas.

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Handle With Care Program: for Law Enforcement

The Handle With Care program helps identify and address trauma and grief in schools. This webinar for law enforcement provides an overview of the program, including its background and rationale.

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TAG Center Handouts

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Five Signs a Grieving Child May Need Extra Help

Every child expresses their grief differently, however, sometimes youth feel especially “stuck” in their grief. This handout helps caregivers identify when a grieving child or adolescent may need a higher level of support.

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How to Help Children After a School Shooting

This resource offers guidance and tips for parents and caregivers on talking to youth and helping decrease their distress in the aftermath of a school shooting.

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Guidelines for Caregivers Supporting Grieving Youth

This handout developed by the Trauma and Grief Center is for parents, caregivers, or other adults seeking to help bereaved youth after the death of a loved one.

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Power of Parenting Series

The following Power of Parenting series is co-sponsored by the New York Life Foundation and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. In partnership with researchers, clinicians, and individuals with lived experience, Dr. Julie Kaplow developed these resources to help parents and caregivers support children facing bereavement, including in the context of the pandemic.

Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Helping Children Cope with the Impending Death of a Loved One

Guidance for caregivers on addressing the impending death of a loved one due to COVID-19 including anticipating a death, preparing a child for the death, and saying goodbye.

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Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Addressing Fears & Feelings from Prior Losses

Fact sheet for caregivers about addressing fears and feelings from prior losses that could arise during the COVID-19 pandemic including information on loss and trauma reminders, coping with separation, and the mind-body connection.

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Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mourning the Death of a Loved One

Caregiver guidance on mourning the death of a loved one due to COVID-19 offering information on saying goodbye when you couldn’t be there, understanding developmental differences in behaviors associated with grief, and seeking alternative support if needed.

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A Guide for Parents & Caregivers

Talking to Your Child About a Suicide Death

This fact sheet for parents and caregivers offers guidance on talking to children about a suicide death including preparing to tell children about a suicide death, helping them grieve in healthy ways, and recognizing when a child may need additional support.

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The Power of Parenting

How to Help Your Child After the Death of a Sibling from Substance Use or Overdose

Fact sheet for caregivers offers guidance on supporting their surviving children after the death of a sibling due to substance use or overdose. Information includes helping children cope with stigma and shame, understanding the wide range of reactions that family members may experience, coping with how substance use influences the family over time, adapting to loss, and prioritizing self-care and support for the parents or caregivers.

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RESOURCES

Trauma & Grief Center Empirical Papers

This sampling of research studies led by the Trauma and Grief Center team provides the basis for our work in developing, evaluating, and disseminating best practices and policies for youth exposed to trauma and bereavement:

  1. Alvis, L., Dodd, C., Oosterhoff, B., Hill, R., Rolon-Arroyo, B., Logsdon, T., Layne, C., & Kaplow, J. B. (in press). Caregiver behaviors and childhood maladaptive grief: Initial validation of the Grief Facilitation Inventory. Death Studies.
  2. Dodd, C. Hill, R., Oosterhoff, B., Layne, C.M., & Kaplow, J.B. (2019). The Hurricane Exposure, Adversity, and Recovery Tool (HEART): Developing and validating a risk screening instrument for youth exposed to Hurricane Harvey. Journal of Family Strengths, 19(1), 1-28.
  3. Douglas, R., Alvis, L., Rooney, E., Busby, D., & Kaplow, J. (in press) Racial, ethnic, and neighborhood income disparities in childhood trauma and grief reactions: Exploring potential indirect effects through trauma and bereavement exposure. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
  4. Hill, R., Oosterhoff, B., Layne, C., Rooney, E., Yudovich, S., Pynoos, R., & Kaplow, J. (2019). Multidimensional Grief Therapy: Pilot open trial of a novel intervention for bereaved children and adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(11), 3062-3074.
  5. Kaplow, J.B., Howell, K.H. & Layne, C.M. (2014). Do circumstances of the death matter? Identifying socioenvironmental risks for grief-related psychopathology in bereaved youth. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27(1), 42-49.
  6. Kaplow, J. B., Layne, C., Oosterhoff, B., Goldenthal, H., Howell, K., Wamser‐Nanney, R., … Pynoos, R. (2018). Validation of the Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) Checklist: A developmentally informed assessment tool for bereaved youth. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(2), 244–254.
  7. Kaplow, J.B., Layne, C.M., Saltzman, W.R., Cozza, S.J., & Pynoos, R.S. (2013). Using Multidimensional Grief Theory to explore effects of deployment, reintegration, and death on military youth and families. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 16, 322-340.
  8. Kaplow, J.B., Rolon-Arroyo, B., Layne, C.M., Rooney, E., Oosterhoff, B., Hill, R., Steinberg, A., Lotterman, J., Gallagher, K., & Pynoos, R.S. (2020). Validation of the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index for DSM-5 (RI-5): A developmentally-informed assessment tool for trauma-exposed youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(1), 186-194.
  9. Kaplow, J.B., Wamser-Nanney, R., Layne, C.M., Burnside, A., King, C., Li-Jung, L., Steinberg, A., Briggs, E., Suarez, L., & Pynoos, R. (2020). Identifying bereavement-related markers of mental and behavioral health problems among clinic-referred adolescents. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice. doi.org/10.1176/appi.prcp.20190021
  10. Oosterhoff, B., Kaplow, J. B., & Layne, C. (2018). Links between bereavement due to sudden death and academic functioning: Results from a nationally representative sample of adolescents. School Psychology Quarterly, 33(3), 372–380.