Practical Strategies for Implementing Trauma-Informed Care

Description

Pediatricians are often the first health care professionals to encounter children exposed to trauma and have the greatest potential for early identification and response to childhood trauma and traumatic stress. This course, which builds upon the “Trauma Informed Care and Resilience Promotion” PediaLink course, aims to enhance practical skills to identify and respond to child traumatic stress, including how to help regulate disrupted caregivers. The course explains the connection between relational health and trauma-informed care and identifies strategies for providers and caregivers to promote relational health.  Additionally, the course dives deeper into trauma symptoms and response by age groups, including guidance on trauma-informed care interventions and psychotropic prescribing.  

1. Define relational health and why it is important for child development and life course trajectories.
2. Explain the importance of identifying and responding to child traumatic stress.   
3. Identify when medication is indicated for children exposed to trauma.
4. Identify how trauma symptoms present in infants and young children.   
5. Describe how pediatricians and other healthcare professionals can address trauma in school-aged children and adolescents.
6. Distinguish how traumas, stress, depression, and substance use disorder by caregivers can disrupt neuronal processes of the human caregiving network. 

Course Details

• Start Date: August 12, 2024
• Online Access Expires: August 11, 2027
• Credit Expires: August 11, 2027
• Course ID: 61585

Acknowledgements

This course is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1,500,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.   

Faculty

Subject Matter Experts 

• Khadijia Tribie Reid, MD, MPH, FAAP
• Brooks Keeshin, MD,FAAP
• Lindsay Shepard Abdulahad, PhD, LCSW   
• Rachel Gilgoff, MD, FAAP
• Deborah Rodriguez, MD, FAAP
• Heather Forkey, MD, FAAP 

Reviewers 

• Andrew Garner, MD, FAAP
• Kathleen Franchek-Roa, MD, FAAP
• Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP
• Davida Schiff, MD, FAAP   

AAP Staff 

• Sandra George
• Zaneta Balaban
• Tammy Hurley
• Sondra Moore
• Hira Khan