After the Hurricane: Helping Young Children Heal
This handout describes the impact of disasters on babies, young children, toddlers, and preschoolers, offering many useful tips for helping to promote healing and resiliency.
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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This handout describes the impact of disasters on babies, young children, toddlers, and preschoolers, offering many useful tips for helping to promote healing and resiliency.
This booklet offers strategies for parents and families to lessen the impact of violence and other kinds of trauma. Describes what to expect from children after a traumatic event occurs.
Designed for parents and caretakers, this booket describes the power of learning in early childhood, suggests principles to teach children that promote violence prevention, and provides skills for anger management and problem solving.
The findings of this study demonstrate that feeling emotionally safe is as important as being physically safe. Furthermore, what is of most concern to girls is navigating their every day world (home, school, social settings, and routine activities) and developing trust and positive relationships with others.
This booklet offers early childhood educators research-based violence prevention information and suggestions for effective ways to help children manage anger, learn self-control, and solve problems peacefully.
This article provides examples of elementary and preschools that are going beyond 'conflict resolution' to teach positive social behavior to children. Highlights promising programs such as Peace Camps and PeaceBuilders.
This book is designed to do one thing: Create kids who are more comfortable talking about the sexual parts of their body.
This book is designed to do one thing: Create kids who are more comfortable talking about the sexual parts of their body.
This issue also explores articles that discuss effects of victimization as risk factors, rather than inevitable damage.
This article discusses child sexual abuse and the impact it has on adolescent development: physiological change, emotional development, cognitive change, moral and spiritual development and sexual development. It also lists some of the symptoms that are frequently present in young survivors: anxiety/numbing, Hypersensitivity, depression, Alcohol or Drug Use, Problem Sexual Behaviors and aggression. Suggests ways to treat sexually abused adolescents.