11:00am Session
Most children who experience trauma and suffer from traumatic stress reactions are not identified and do not receive trauma-informed treatment. Professionals without a mental health background who work with children in schools and primary care, as well specialty systems like child welfare and juvenile justice, have limited training and experience with trauma screening. Trauma screening is an effective but underutilized strategy to identify children who are experiencing traumatic stress and who may benefit from additional support or services, including trauma-informed treatment.
This training will focus on considerations and strategies for implementing trauma screening in various child-serving settings, focusing on professionals without a mental health background. The training will describe best practices in trauma screening and common questions that arise, including what to screen for, whom to screen, how to conduct the screening, managing distress, and what to do after screening. It will provide a summary of the Trauma ScreenTIME online course in trauma screening, and information about accessing the full course will be provided. The Child Trauma Screen (CTS), a brief (10-item), freely available measure, will also be described, but the training content can be applied to screening with other brief measures.
About the Presenter
Jason Lang, Ph.D, Chief Program Officer
Child Health & Development Institute
Jason Lang, Ph.D. is Chief Program Officer at CHDI, where he leads CHDI’s work in the areas of trauma-informed care, evidence-based practices, and school and community programs. Dr. Lang is a licensed clinical psychologist who also holds appointments as an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at UCONN Health and at the Yale Child Study Center, and he has extensively published and presented nationally about childhood trauma and implementation of evidence-based treatments. Prior to joining CHDI, Dr. Lang completed a fellowship in childhood trauma at the Yale Child Study Center and received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA.
