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Post Crisis Resources
Post Crisis Resources
Adult Material
Teen and Children's Material
Why am I so Angry (Teen guide to reactions after trauma)
Family Resources
HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH TRAUMATIC EVENTS. This is a comprehensive guide created by Wheaton College's Humanitarian Disaster Institute.
Helping Children Cope with Disaster. This is a simple and easy-to-use guide for how to talk to children about disasters and exercises that families or classrooms can do together.
Beyond Disaster Folder - Trauma Healing Institute response material, designed to be used as a self-guided or to go through with a friend or group after a crisis or disaster. Available in French, Spanish, or English and can be used in person or online.
Unstuck - A Teen Guide to Troubled Times: An interactive story for teens to go through during or after a crisis.
Peace Be Still; A Kid's Guide to Crazy Days - A Disaster Response Curriculum for families to go through together.
Recursos em Português
AJUDANDO AS CRIANÇAS EM MEIO A CRISE: Instruções para pais e cuidadores de crianças
MANEIRAS DE LIDAR COM UM TRAUMA: Após um trauma, os níveis de estresse são elevados e nossas formas normais de lidar com a situação podem não ser suficientes.
Adultos Reações Comuns ao Trauma: Abaixo estão alguns sintomas e reações comuns de adultos que passam por um trauma. Marque aqueles que você está passando ou que fazem sentido para você agora.
Calming / Grounding Exercises
Calming / Grounding Exercises
After a Crisis or Trauma it can be helpful to have a number of tools or exercises to help regulate and integrate your mind and body. One of the key purposes is to help you be in the present.
Grounding Basics
Rationale: external and internal stress triggers have an accumulative effect during the day.
We cope better with stress when we stay within our arousal “window of tolerance.”
An antidote to stress triggers: frequent random monitoring of stress levels with simple stress reduction actions to keep stress levels within our “window of tolerance.”
Four Elements Option 1: Earth, Wind, Water and Fire: This is a series of grounding exercises.
Here is another version of Four Elements to try as well.
Breathing: While included in the Four Elements exercise there are many ways of doing deep breathing as a way of calming and controlling your body's resposne to stress and triggers after an incicdent.
Breath Prayer: Incorporates breathing with communicating to and from God
Box Breathing: Another way to do deep breathing
Hot drink Breathing: A breathing and grounding exercise good for kids
Imaginative Exercises: These can be used in the "Fire" section of the four elements or on their own. Ways to help our brains be able to disengage from the trauma and its triggers.
Container exercise: You don't have to think about difficult or heavy things all the time. The Container exercise gives your brain permission to turn off and container something that has been difficult.
Safe Place Exercise: Use your imagination to be reminded of a place you feel calm and safe, usfeul to lower your current arousal (or triggered) state.
Spotlight Exercise: A way to invite God to help you notice all parts of you being (mental, physical, spiriutal, emotoinal, social)
Body Scan Exercise: To be aware of how your body is responding post crisis.
Container Exercise Demonstration
Container Exercise Demonstration
James Covey, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor
Spiritual Resources
Spiritual Resources
By Debbie Schuster
Trauma impact
Trauma impact
What to Expect after a Trauma
What to Expect after a Trauma
Brianna White, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Child Mental Health Specialist.
Brianna White, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Child Mental Health Specialist.
Resource for parents - What is Trauma
Resource for parents - What is Trauma
This video is for adults in Ukarumpa after the 2022 earthquake. It discusses what a trauma is, how it is diagnosed, what warning signs parents and teachers can look for as well as why it is important to seek help for children that have negative changes in their behavior after a traumatic event.
Brianna White, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Child Mental Health Specialist.
Brianna White, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Child Mental Health Specialist.
Other Basic Responses
Other Basic Responses
What to do, not to do and how to help others
Things to Try: Some pratical things to do after a crisis.
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