Trauma Center Products
The Trauma Center at JRI offers a variety of workshops and clinical consultation groups designed to provide professional support and advanced, hands-on learning opportunities for clinicians and other providers working with children and adults who have experienced trauma. Workshops provide state-of-the-art information about key topics in the field of traumatic stress, integrating innovative and well-established practices and areas of exploration. Consultation groups are organized around key thematic areas, and are space-limited to maximize participants experience.
Assessment Instruments
The Trauma Center has developed a packet of self-administered questionnaires that assess psychological traumas and their sequelae, including features associated with “disorders of extreme stress” or “complex PTSD”. The test instruments included in this packet provide a comprehensive assessment of trauma histories at different ages and the broad spectrum of posttraumatic adaptations encountered in clinical work. Clinicians can chart patients’ progress over time by collecting information at the initial intake visit and three follow-up visits. Excel data files are easily imported to SPSS or SAS for further analyses of patient data. Finally, this packet includes three published research and clinical articles supporting use of these measures and describing clinical and research applications.
Over the Rainbow Activity Box
The Trauma Center has developed an exciting collection of interactive therapeutic ideas for mothers, clinicians, and other care givers -- hands-on tools which enhance the development of healthy attachment, relationship building, creativity and self esteem for children aged 0- 5 years.
Urban Improv Teaching Curriculum
As a member of the Hamilton Fish Institute’s Youth Violence Prevention Consortium, and with funding support from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Roy A. Hunt Foundation, and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Trauma Center at JRI has evaluated, developed, and implemented youth violence prevention programs since 2001. Projects have focused on evaluating Urban Improv, a school-based interactive and educational program that has used structured improvisational theater to teach violence prevention, conflict resolution, and decision making skills to Boston public school students since 1992.
Videotapes
Dr. van der Kolk has made several videotapes to shed light on important issues in psychological trauma. There are videos for clinicians, and also for trauma survivors and their family members and friends.
Attachment, Self-regulation and Competency (ARC) Manuals
ARC is a framework for intervention with youth and families who have experienced multiple and/or prolonged traumatic stress. ARC identifies three core domains that are frequently impacted among traumatized youth, and which are relevant to future resiliency. ARC provides a theoretical framework, core principles of intervention, and a guiding structure for providers working with these children and their caregivers, while recognizing that a one-size-model does not fit all. ARC is designed for youth from early childhood to adolescence and their caregivers or caregiving systems.
You can learn more about ARC on the Research section of the web site.
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