Background: Caregivers play a crucial role in supporting trauma-affected foster children by offering emotional stability and comfort. Caregivers face significant emotional, practical and systemic challenges despite their critical contributions. Limited research explores their experiences in providing trauma-informed care, creating a gap in…

The school environment presents significant challenges for teachers as first responders to children who experience psychological turmoil during traumatic events. As these challenges emanate, the need for effective Psychological First Aid (PFA) becomes crucial to lessen the short and long-term impact of trauma on both the learners and these…

Trauma-informed teaching practices and therapeutic art approaches can promote creativity, feelings of safety, and resiliency. This research examines the effectiveness of trauma-informed teaching practices and therapeutic art approaches in supporting at-risk elementary art students in Kensington, Philadelphia. It will emphasize how art-making can…

A trigger warning (TW) is a statement designed to caution individuals about upcoming content that could evoke distressing emotions. The majority of students promote the use of TWs and believe them to be helpful and their use is becoming more commonplace amongst instructors (noting that instructors also sometimes avoid teaching or discussing…

Objective: Drinking for emotion regulation may be a concern for college students who have experienced childhood maltreatment, due to high levels of shame and guilt. The present cross-sectional survey study tested how trait shame-proneness, trait guilt-proneness, and trauma-related guilt are differently related to drinking motives and how these…

The research examines the mediating role of the presence of the meaning of life in the relationship between gratitude and hope and whether this relationship differs because of moving to another city after the earthquake and loss. In the study in which the correlational research model was used, the study group consisted of 443 high school students…

Developing accurate and equitable screening protocols can lead to more targeted, efficient, and effective, teen dating violence (TDV) prevention programming. Current TDV screening protocols perform poorly and are rarely implemented, but recent research and policy emphasizes the importance of leveraging more trauma-focused screening measures for…

The current study examined the relationship between trait hope, state hope, connectedness, trauma symptoms, and positive religious coping with psychological distress among undergraduate students while also assessing the moderating effect of trauma symptoms. Grounded in theoretical frameworks by Snyder et al. (1991), Hobfoll et al. (2007), and…

This study aimed to identify and reach a consensus on factors contributing to adolescent suicidality following biopsychosocial model. The research was conducted in three stages: (1) literature review and school counselor interview on self-harm and suicidal risk factors in the adolescent population; (2) development of a list of risk factors (3)…

When facilitating group art therapy for young adult male inmates in prison, response art helped an art therapist to build therapeutic bonds and maintain self-care. Both artmaking in-session and post-session enabled the art therapist to traverse relational distance, nurture trust, and create social bonds in the group. By reflecting on her response…

The existing literature on college students with foster care histories almost exclusively addresses secular higher education. Of the roughly 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, nearly 1,000 are religious based institutions, and over 150 campuses are part of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) in the United…

Background: The prevalence of trauma among young people is alarming due to its considerable effects on their wellbeing and development. Parents can provide crucial support for young people exposed to trauma, however, there is limited research on how parents can help young people exposed to trauma from a youth perspective. Objective: This study…

Children exposed to family violence (i.e. child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence) are often emotionally insecure in their relationship with their parents, and develop psychosocial problems. Emotional insecurity increases the likelihood of psychosocial problems, and may affect adjustment in other contexts (e.g., school). Among…

This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course is an extremely prevalent and pressing social problem, it has been invisible within higher education. Indeed, experiences of GBV, which may profoundly shape access to and…

Alaska's alternative high schools use trauma-engaged practices in their education model. Thirteen focus groups with 100 alternative high school educators, staff and administrators were conducted. The study sought to describe the Alaska alternative high school staffs' perspectives on effective practices and impact of alternative education on drug…