December 2015
Defending Childhood, the seminal report of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence (Listenbee et al., 2012) sounded a clarion call for the juvenile justice system to increase its attention to the identification of youth exposed to trauma and violence. A number of new state-of-the-art tools have been developed recently for this purpose but many have not yet been widely disseminated to the stakeholders who most need to access them. To this end, this presentation will define and differentiate between screening and assessment, will discuss what systems need to do to ensure readiness before implementing trauma screening, and will equip attendees with the information they need in order to access and utilize measures that screen and assess for trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress reactions, and the presence of symptoms consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder. In addition, the presentation will provide guidelines for conducting screenings and assessments in ways that ensure the well-being and safety of traumatized youth and protection against vicarious trauma for staff.
This webinar will be held on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 2:00 PM EST. The presenter, Dr. Patricia Kerig, is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Utah, as well as a faculty member of the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Register here.