LibGuides: Mental Health: Trauma

Understanding Trauma

Featured Resources

Trauma

Featured Organizations & Useful Websites

Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families
"Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of people who grew up in dysfunctional homes." Find information and resources here.
ComplexTrauma.org
"A curated collection of Books, Videos, Articles and more to educate consumers, caregivers and professionals about Complex Trauma."
Coping With Traumatic Events
From the National Institute of Mental Health.
Healing TREE (Trauma Resources, Education & Entertainment)
Find resources on this non-profit's website that "advocates healing from abuse and trauma rather than coping with the symptoms, in order to transform lives and, ultimately, society. We achieve this by providing trauma-focused resources and education and by producing and partnering with relevant film, television, and theatre, empowering the social change necessary to create a healing movement."
Help Guide: PTSD & Trauma
Find information and other resources about trauma from the Help Guide
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
"The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) was created to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for children and families who experience or witness traumatic events. "
NIMH-Funded Researcher Dr. Barbara Rothbaum Discusses Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Presents an " overview of the signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments for PTSD. I'll discuss the latest research on PTSD and some of the challenges that the coronavirus of COVID-19 outbreak has presented for individuals with PTSD." 27--minute video.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Information from the National Institute of Mental Health. Links to videos, brochures, and research.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
"RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. "

Trauma

Featured Videos

How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across the Life Course – And What We Can Do About It From the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma ~75 minutes
The Neuroscience of Adversity and Trauma: Mobilizing a Decade of Scientific From the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, ~90 minutes
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Information from the National Institute of Mental Health. Links to videos, brochures, and research.
TED Talks: Breaking Generational Cycles of Trauma A talk, ~15 minutes, by Brandy Wells at TEDxKingLincolnBronzeville
PTSD Videos Videos on PTSD and the Brain, medications, various types of therapy, etc. From the Veterans Administration.
Short Films About Mental Health - Trauma PTSD A ~20 minute video from Oxford Health
TED Talks -- Trauma
TED Talks: Black Folk Mental Health: Generational Trauma, Traditions & Truth A 2021 talk by Jelan Agnew at TEDxDelthorneWomen
TED Talks: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime A talk by Nadine Burke Harris from TED MED, 2014
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"Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on."
Trauma and Addiction From Crash Course Psychology #31
Trauma from an Intersectional Perspective (Webinar Recording) A 2021 webinar from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, ~60 minutes

Trauma

Featured Podcasts

The Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Podcast
"A podcast hosted by David Treleaven, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, featuring a variety of guests speaking about the intersection of mindfulness, meditation, and trauma."
The Healing Trauma Podcast
"[C]onversations with Trauma experts & survivors to offer hope for the healing journey."
Life Kit (podcast)
"Everyone needs a little help being a human. From sleep to saving money to parenting and more, we talk to the experts to get the best advice out there. Life Kit is here to help you get it together."
Tara Brach (podcast)
"Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance, True Refuge and Radical Compassion. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that address the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world."
#TraumaTalk Podcast Series
A podcast from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
" With input from comedians, artists, friends and (some) doctors, Paul Gilmartin is on a mission to normalize what has for too long been stigmatized. He and his guests talk openly and honestly about the things that don’t get talked about in public, the struggles and pains and trauma of their own lives in order to bring to light the truth that the world is much more than black and white stories."