Children with Traumatic Separation: Information for Professionals

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This five-page document provides information and suggestions for helping children who experience traumatic separation from a caregiver. It discusses children and traumatic stress, challenges for children with traumatic separation, and post-traumatic responses to separation from a parent.

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Focus Areas: Mental Health; Trauma

Audience: Behavioral Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stages: Response; Recovery

Keywords: Anxiety, Separation; Child; Child Behavior; Child Behavior Disorders; Psychology, Child; Child Reactive Disorders; Child Welfare; Grief; Parent-Child Relations; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Caregivers; Family Separation; Psychological Trauma; Adverse Childhood Experiences

Institutions: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

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