This article is a component of the Resources for Teaching After Crisis playlist.
Helping Your Children Manage Distress in the Aftermath of a Shooting
resource for parents from the American Psychological Association [article]
Series of tips for parents to help children through their distress after a community or school shooting.
Resiliency After Violence: After Uvalde
resource from the education research outreach site Usable Knowledge, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Expanded from their 2016 article on the same topic [article]
This article shares strategies from psychologist Richard Weissbourd for age-appropriate conversations about difficult events involving trauma and community violence. Also focuses on student activism and protests, positive school culture and student inclusion in decision-making, and reducing bullying / creating welcoming school climates.
Responding to Tragedy: Resources for Educators and Parents
Edutopia resource compiled by Matt Davis [list of links]
This list of resources focuses on addressing children’s trauma and grief.
Managing Fear After Mass Violence
New York Times Parenting article by Jessica Grose [article]
Suggestions from psychiatrists and pediatricians about how parents can handle increased anxiety and fear connected to school shootings, and how they can support their children to do the same.
When Bad Things Happen: Help kids navigate our sometimes-violent world
article by Sean McCollum in Learning for Justice magazine, by Southern Poverty Law Center [magazine feature]
Article about children and teens’ experiences of community violence, the danger of toxic stress, psychological first aid frameworks, recovery, and healing (2013).
Childhood Traumatic Grief: Youth Information
from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network [factsheet]
This factsheet is designed for a youth audience to explain the normal range of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that make up grief; the characteristics of traumatic grief; and ways to feel better and cope with grief-related traumatic reactions.
Adapted from materials curated with love and solidarity by Kaitlin Popielarz, PhD
Dr. Popielarz is an MSU alum and you can contact her at: kaitlin.popielarz@utsa.edu