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This video tells the story of Chantal, a young woman who survived the genocide in Rwanda, and overcame losing her family to become a successful shop owner with the help and support of Dr Lori Leyden and Project Light. Find out more. Read more
Compassion fatigue and foster carers. Compassion fatigue is a physical and emotional response to the stresses of working with traumatised people. This study explores compassion fatigue in foster carers and the impacts this can have, with the aim of improving awareness and highlighting the support strategies which carers find helpful to reducing compassion fatigue. Read more
Oprah Winfrey reports on how trauma plays a role in childhood development and what new methods are being used to help children and young people who have experienced it in a recent report for American news channel CBS. Find out more. Read more
This short video, from the SevenSlideSeries at the ChildTrauma Academy, gives a brief introduction to core concepts about brain structure and function that provide the basis for developmentally sensitive and trauma-informed caregiving, education and therapy. Read more
This booklet by Dr Bruce Perry, Founder and Senior Fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy, presents an overview of secondary trauma, with the aim of giving readers a better understanding of how working with traumatised children and young people can affect us personally and professionally. Find out more about this booklet 'The Cost of Caring'. Read more
In this fascinating presentation, Dr Dan Siegel (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA) looks at the links between neuroscience, adolescence, relationships and community. Read more
The Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework us a flexible intervention which was developed for children and young people who have experienced complex trauma. Find out more and read Kinniburgh, Blaustein, Spinazzola and van der Kolk's paper: Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency. Read more
This six-minute video provides an overview of The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain, a Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. Read more
(Through the eyes of care leavers) The experience of young people leaving care and suffering from depression in Scotland. Marina Amaral's thesis examines the Throughcare experience and outcomes achieved by young people who are simultaneously leaving care and experiencing depression. Find out more and download Marina's thesis. Read more
Evidence, challenges and potential research. Scotland has a persistently high mortality rate that is not solely due to the effects of socio-economic deprivation. Find out more about this paper from Dr Michael Smith et. al., published in July 2016. Read more