Posts Tagged ‘abuse’
Improving Children’s Behavior: Re-energizing the Traumatized Brain in Children
Follow this link to download handouts from the Foster Care Training Committee (FCTC) training, Improving Children’s Behavior: Re-energizing the Traumatized Brain in Children, featuring Dr. Steven Choy.
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.
Supporting Maltreated Children: Countering the Effects of Neglect and Abuse
Click here to download Supporting Maltreated Children to learn how early neglect and abuse affect attachment and brain development and how to help children so affected. This article was adapted from articles by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. It is from Adoptalk, published by the North American Council on Adoptable Children, St. Paul, Minnesota; 651-644-3036; www.nacac.org. [...]
April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, there are five protective factors that serve as buffers for child maltreatment that are linked to a lower incidence of child abuse and neglect. They are: nurturing and attachment; knowledge of parenting and child and youth development; parental resilience; social connections, and concrete support for parents.
To Report Child Abuse or Seek Services
Centralized Intake Line Oahu: 832-5300 Neighbor Islands: 1-800-494-3991 (toll free) All reports of Child Abuse and Neglect, including Institutional Harm reports are now received by the CWI Unit on a 24/7 basis. Institutional harm refers to all substitute care arrangements licensed by the Department (foster, group, child care). Foster parents statewide requiring Child Welfare Services after hours may also [...]
Reacting to a Child’s Disclosure of Sex Abuse
This article provides suggestions for what to say and do and what NOT to say or do when a child discloses to you that he or she has experienced sexual abuse.
Providing a Place to Heal
Providing A Place to Heal: Characteristics of Foster Parents That Prevent Further Sexual Abuse & Help a Child Recover describes characteristics of foster parents that help prevent further sexual abuse and help a child recover.
How Long Does It Hurt? A Guide to Recovering From Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families
This book has helped me to realize that what happened to me was horrific and was really abuse and that it was okay for me to feel the things that I did. I’d recommend this book to any and every survivor out there. Teenager or not. It very well could be a lifesaver.
