ARTICLES
Optimum Learning Environments for Traumatized Children
This article addresses how and why traumatized children perform in schools, how the traumatized brain functions, and elements to avoid in and enhance schools.
This article addresses how and why traumatized children perform in schools, how the traumatized brain functions, and elements to avoid in and enhance schools.
Resilience and Recovery from Trauma
This website includes a paper that summarizes research findings concerning the relationship between mental health and academic achievement.
This website includes a paper that summarizes research findings concerning the relationship between mental health and academic achievement.
Trauma in Children and Related Learning Problems
This article provides an explanation of the “survival mode” experienced by traumatized children and how it affects their ability to learn and conform to behavioral expectations in the classroom. Teachers are presented as supportive adults.
This article provides an explanation of the “survival mode” experienced by traumatized children and how it affects their ability to learn and conform to behavioral expectations in the classroom. Teachers are presented as supportive adults.
Understanding and Helping Children Who Have Been Traumatized
This article provides information about children who have been traumatized, including suggestions for how to support them.
This article provides information about children who have been traumatized, including suggestions for how to support them.
PUBLICATIONS
Healing the Hurt: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Health of Boys and Young Men of Color
The purpose of this paper is to promote understanding of the role of trauma and adversity in the lives of Latino and African American boys and young men and to examine trauma-informed approaches to improving their health.
The purpose of this paper is to promote understanding of the role of trauma and adversity in the lives of Latino and African American boys and young men and to examine trauma-informed approaches to improving their health.
Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children’s Exposure to Violence – A Guide for Families
This easy-to-read publication is designed to help parents and other family caregivers understand how children are affected by exposure to violence.
This easy-to-read publication is designed to help parents and other family caregivers understand how children are affected by exposure to violence.
BOOKS
Preschool and Early Elementary
Koplow, Lesley (ed.). 2007. Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal, 2nd edition. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Koplow, Lesley (ed.). 2007. Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal, 2nd edition. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Koplow, Lesley (ed.). 2008. Bears, Bears Everywhere: Supporting Children’s Emotional Health in the Classroom. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Elementary
Craig, Susan. 2008. Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom. Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes Publishing.
Oehlberg, Barbara. 2006. Reaching and Teaching Stressed and Anxious Learners in Grades 4-8: Strategies for Relieving Distress and Trauma in Schools and Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
High School
Horsman, Jenny. 2000. Too Scared to Learn. New York, NY: Routledge.
Stien, Phyllis, et al. 2003. Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children. New York, NY: Routledge.
PreKindergarten – High School
Greenwald, Ricky.2009. Treating Problem Behaviors: A Trauma-Informed Approach. New York, NY: Routledge.
Koplow, Lesley. 2002. Creating Schools that Heal: Real-Life Solutions. New York, NY: Teacher’s College, Columbia University Press.