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TLC Research Summaries
SITCAP-ART Research

Katrina Update 2007

Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth: A Comparison

ARTICLES:
Darfur: The Evidence of War Crimes (Children's Drawings)

Drawing Offers Solutions for Teens Surviving Tragedies

Mandalas: Making Order Out of Disorder, from The Soul's Pallette: Drawing on Art's Transformative Powers for Health and Well-Being, by Cathy Malchiodi 2002 Shambala

Using Art in Trauma Recovery with Children

SITCAP Preliminary Outcomes: At-Risk Adjucated Youth

Crisis Intervention: The First Few Days (Summary of Lennis Echterling's presentation)

School MemorialsTrauma's Impact on LearningSigns of a Grieving Child

A Trauma Resource Bibliography by Deanne Ginns-Gruenberg

COMMENTARIES:
Helping Volunteers: Trauma and Disaster

Trauma Debriefing: Structuring Larger Groups

JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Click here for select TLC Journal articlesJOURNAL SPECIAL EDITION:
Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions V5 N2 Special Hurricane Edition

CHAPTERS:
SITCAP Chapter 6 - Overview: Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents

When Cognitive Interventions Fail with Children of Trauma: Memory, Learning, and Trauma Intervention

CHART:
Grief and Trauma

FOR TEACHERS:
What to Do During Wa

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Book List

RESOURCES:
TLC Hurricane Relief Effort & Inf

FOR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS:
Parents Trauma Resource Center

TLC MEMBERS ONLY:
Referral Directory
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CHILDHOOD TRAUMA PRACTITIONERS ASSEMBLY INFORMATION

Nov 7, 2008 - TLC Special Presentation
Grief...Trauma...Action: With Playback Theatre

To register by phone call 877-306-5256

Feb 25-28, 2009 - Four TLC Core Trainings
Children of Trauma, Structured Sensory Interventions,
Trauma Debriefing and Crisis Intervention

About TLC
Founded in 1990 by William Steele, MSW, PsyD, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children's (TLC) mission is to provide direct services to traumatized children and families and to provide school professionals, crisis intervention teams, medical and mental health professionals, child care professionals and clinicians with trauma education, training, consultation, referral services and trauma-specific intervention programs and resource materials needed to help children, parents, families, and schools traumatized by violent or non-violent trauma-inducing incidents.TLC is a non-profit 501(c)3 program of Children's Home of Detroit. MORE ABOUT TLC...

Bill Steele's Reference List

About TLC Certification Credentials

What professionals have said about TLC trainings

TLC Director
William Steele,PsyD, MSW

Parents Trauma Resource Center TLC information
TLC Assistant Director
Caelan Kuban, LMSW

Information for students and parents about suicide
If you have an emergency
dial "0" and ask the operator to connect you to the 24-hour suicide or crisis intervention service in your area.

Call for Articles
We are looking for articles, papers, commentaries, and reviews to publish in the TLC Journal, Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions. Publication of your article will also fulfill a requirement for Consultant Supervisor Certification.

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winner of the TLC Assembly Sweepstakes!

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