Mental Health Content Topic Results
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Self Esteem & Confidence: 52 Journal Prompts for Kids
This website provides information and resources including prompts and writing ideas to help promote self esteem and confidence in youth.
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What is an invisible disability?
Publisher(s): This brief article describes what the term "invisible disability" means and why it is important to understand invisible disabilities.
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Information for Mental Health Professionals
Publisher(s):This document presents good practice tips for health care professionals working with patients who have been abused. The guidelines provide screening tips, highlight the negative effect of couples counseling in domestic violence situations, and present safety planning tips.
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After the Storm - Tips for Parents
Publisher(s):The job of parenting can become even more stressful after a natural disaster. These one-pagers provide information on healthy coping strategies to help parents regain a sense of control. Available in English and Spanish.
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Activities Guide: Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence
Publisher(s):This guide describes a variety of activities and games that offer ways for adults to support and strengthen executive function and self-regulation in children.
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Healing-Centered and Trauma-Responsive Care Across Child Welfare for Better Youth Engagement
Publisher(s):This resource offers challenges and sample solutions that can help agencies consider how to improve engagement at their agencies by focusing on access to trauma-responsive and healing-centered care.
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence: What do professionals need to know?
Publisher(s):This document provides information and relevant resources for the early detection of TBI among domestic violence survivors. It also offers an analysis of the intersection between brain injury and domestic violence as well as other relevant information.
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Fact Sheets & Practical Tools for Advocates
Publisher(s):These fact sheets provide information and practical tips to domestic violence advocates on working with survivors who are experiencing trauma symptoms and/or mental health conditions.
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Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Men Who Sustain Intimate Partner Violence: A Study of Helpseeking and Community Samples
Publisher(s): This fact sheet highlights findings from a study on the associations between sustaining intimate partner violence (IPV) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in men. Experiences with helpseeking are also included.
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A System Framework for Creating, Supporting, and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools
Publisher(s):This framework illustrates why becoming “trauma-informed” should be an essential component of the overall mission of our education system.
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Brief Screening for Possible Brain Injury
Publisher(s):This brief screening tool is used to determine if an individual has experienced a brain injury during the course of a domestic violence incident, or at any other time.
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Homeless Women Veterans
Publisher(s):Although homelessness plagues all veterans, the causes and consequences of having no home are different for women veterans. Young female veterans, including many with children, are increasingly joining the homeless population. Outreach that specifically targets female veterans is needed in order to ensure that these women receive the help they need.