Making Space for Learning - Trauma
This PDF summarises the important elements of the neuroscience and translates a set of principles using case studies that are relevant for supporting students in one-to-one, whole of classroom and whole of school contexts.
Calmer classrooms
A guide to working with traumatised children.
Child Development and Trauma Guide
Guidance A guide to assist with understanding the typical developmental pathways of children and the typical indicators of trauma at differing ages and stages.
What Trauma Taught Me About Resilience with Charles Hunt
Adept at leveraging transparency to inspire and get results, this former College Recruiting, Talent Management, Diversity, and Supply Chain leader left the corporate world to fulfill his vision of building unbreakable spirits and cultivating resiliency for those who, like him, have The Audacity to Succeed. He helps students & young professionals build resilience, believe in bigger and greater for themselves, and create the educational, financial, and professional plans to get there.
Trauma Framework PDF
A resource from Early Signals First Response based on the work of Bruce Perry.
Perforating Cycles PDF
A resource from Early Signals First Response.
State-dependent Functioning
This brief video highlights the importance of understanding how stress and distress influence the way we think, feel and act.
Produced by The ChildTrauma Academy & Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
Complex Care Resources
Complex Care have a range of resources that can be referred to to assist in matters relating to working with and managing complex behaviours. In addition, we aim to provide resources to help support our clients, and the families that we work with.
2-Minute Neuroscience: PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a disorder that develops after someone experiences a traumatic event; it involves a variety of intrusive symptoms related to the trauma. In this video, I discuss hypotheses about what might be going on in the brain to cause PTSD.
ACECQA Trauma Informed Practice
An easy-to-read manual and toolkit have been developed based on the research and practical experience of Rebecca Harris and the team of educators working at Carlton Primary School.
Traumatic events: supporting children and teenagers afterwards
Article by the Raising Children Network
Bruce Perry Resources
Handouts from Bruce Perry's training.
Be You: Childhood Trauma
An easy-to-read manual and toolkit have been developed based on the research and practical experience of Rebecca Harris and the team of educators working at Carlton Primary School.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Children with mental illness web report.
Mental health – infants and young children
Fact sheet from The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.
The Power of Physical Activity in Supporting Healing through Trauma
Blog by Briana Thorne from Phoenix Support for Educators