[Wiskidsdv] [New Resource] Guiding Caregivers: How to Talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation: How to Talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation

Thu Apr 11 06:39:57 PDT 2019

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to pass along this new resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) - Guiding Caregivers: How to Talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation: How to Talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation. It is available to download in English and Spanish below. The resource offers analogies for caregivers on how to talk to children at different developmental levels about deportation or separation. Please feel free to pass this resource on to those you feel would benefit from it.

~Cody~

Cody Warner
End Domestic Abuse WI – the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
LGBTQ & Youth Program Director
1245 E Washington Ave, Suite 150, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 237-3449

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New Partner-In Resource
Guiding Caregivers: How to Talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation
Una Guía para los Cuidadores: Cómo hablarle a un niño a sobre la deportació o Separación

News reports and adult discussions about deportation can cause children many worries, such as fearing separation from a parent. Caretakers often wonder if it is better to keep silent so as not to upset their children. Having an open conversation, at the child’s developmental level, typically is the best approach. That way, the caregiver can give accurate information and explain the family plan in the event of a separation or deportation. This 2-page handout—created by NCTSN-partner Center for Child Stress & Health at Florida State University—gives examples of developmentally appropriate analogies to aid such discussions.

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New Partner-In Resource
Primer for Juvenile Court Judges:
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Judicial Decision-Making for Newcomer Immigrant Youth in Juvenile Justice Proceedings

Written to assist judges and advocates in recognizing the behavioral, social, and learning challenges that many newcomer immigrant youth experience as a result of trauma, this 40-page primer presents a trauma-informed approach to judicial decision-making for newcomer immigrant youth in juvenile justice proceedings. “Newcomer immigrant youth” refers to refugees, asylum seekers, and unaccompanied children who face unique challenges when involved with the juvenile justice system.

Judges can play an instrumental role in shifting the trajectory of a youth’s life by making trauma-informed decisions that improve outcomes for this population. The primer—created by NCTSN partners Center for Trauma & Juvenile Justice, the National Center for Youth Law, and the Refugee Trauma & Resilience Center, in consultation with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges—includes the following contents:

  *   Definition of newcomer immigrant youth population
  *   Case studies
  *   Types of trauma that newcomer youth experience
  *   Consideration of cultural characteristics
  *   Protective factors that support resilience
  *   Impact of a delinquency adjudication on immigration status
  *   Guidance for judges in crafting judicial orders that support successful resolution of the legal, educational, and psychosocial issues that have brought the youth before the juvenile court

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New Work Sheet:
Getting Help After Trauma: Is My Family Ready?

Families dealing with trauma experiences often benefit from counseling services to help with healing. But how does a family decide if now is the right time or if it would be better to wait. How do caregivers know when their family needs counseling?

To address this question, the Family-Informed Trauma Treatment Center at the University of Maryland, Center for Resilient Families at the University of Minnesota, and National Child Traumatic Stress Network have created a brief worksheet <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__crf.umn.edu_readiness&d=DwMFaQ&c=UXmaowRpu5bLSLEQRunJ2z-YIUZuUoa9Rw_x449Hd_Y&r=Cb7vcDoA1APGFjKtKOilUnLHottUM3YqJRJrysIjsP8&m=er_87XMiaEhiOVJqbbT2t8wwfTMpodBagIof1t9xaDM&s=Kmi00FseJ1NnMlWn_4S_vvcYU2Tq9xO8auDC8GKOb8s&e=> “Getting Help After Trauma: Is My Family Ready?” Authors hope that by going through this worksheet, families will be better able to make decisions about their readiness to start trauma counseling and feel more prepared when the time comes.

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RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Na Zhang, Jingchen Zhang, Abigail H. Gewirtz, and Timothy F. Piehler have had their study, “Improving Parental Emotion Socialization in Military Families: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” published in the Journal of Family Psychology (Volume 32, Issue 8) in December, 2018.

Prior research indicates that children of deployed parents are at risk for emotional problems, suggesting the utility of preventive efforts for military families. Effective parental socialization of children's emotions is protective for children's development, and parental experiential avoidance may impede parental emotion socialization, yet intervention studies in this area are lacking. Authors examined the impact of a parenting program, After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT), on parental emotion socialization postintervention (6 months postbaseline) and whether intervention effects were moderated by parental experiential avoidance. Three hundred thirty-six families were randomized into either ADAPT (a 14-week group-based intervention) or the control group. Self-reported data on parental emotion socialization and experiential avoidance were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results showed that mothers who were assigned to the intervention had significant improved supportive emotion socialization and reduced nonsupportive emotion socialization at postintervention compared with controls. Mothers with higher levels of experiential avoidance assigned to the intervention group had higher levels of supportive emotion socialization at postintervention. No significant intervention effects were found in fathers. This study provides support for the effects of the ADAPT program on maternal emotion socialization at 6-month postbaseline, and the role of experiential avoidance as a moderator. Authors discuss findings in relation to the different parental roles that mothers and fathers play in postdeployed families, as well as implications for personalized intervention programming.

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Abigail H. Gewirtz, David, S. DeGarmo, and Osnat Zamir had their article, “Testing a Military Family Stress Model,” published in the journal Family Process (Volume 57, Issue 2) in June, 2018.

Authors examined a military family stress model, evaluating associations between deployment-related stressors (i.e., deployment length/number, posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] symptoms) and parent, child, parenting, and dyadic adjustment among 293 families in which a parent had previously deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Along with providing preliminary support for a military family stress model, study outcomes revealed that parents’ PTSD symptoms, rather than length or number of deployments, appear to be the key family stressor for families following deployment, exerting effects on child adjustment both indirectly through parenting (for mothers’ PTSD symptoms) and directly (for both parents). While prior research has demonstrated that improvements in parenting as a result of intervention may reap benefits not only to child and dyadic adjustment, but also to parental depression (Patterson, DeGarmo, & Forgatch, 2004), no research has yet examined whether parenting interventions may be beneficial in reducing other parental psychopathology (i.e., PTSD symptoms). Authors hope that their findings will lay a foundation for a fuller and more robust understanding of parenting, child, and dyadic relationships in the wake of a parent's deployment to war.

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Betty Pfefferbaum, Zorica Simic, and Carol S. North are the authors of the article, “Parent-Reported Child Reactions to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Attacks (New York USA) in Relation to Parent Post-Disaster Psychopathology Three Years After the Event,” published in the journal Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (Volume 33, Issue 5). Parents are a primary support for children following disasters, and parents who are directly exposed to a disaster and those who develop psychiatric disorders post-event are likely to be especially challenged, limiting their ability to support their children. Authors studied 116 parent survivors of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks who reported their psychosocial consequences and the reactions of their children (N=188) three years after the event. Results showed that almost one-half of the parents had a post-disaster psychiatric disorder, including major depression in 27% and disaster-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 11%. More than three-fourths of the children had at least one disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptom, and more than one-half experienced at least one post-disaster behavior change. A minority of the children were reported to have increased school behavior problems or a decline in their grades. Key correlates of children’s disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms and post-disaster behavior changes were parent-child separation due to the disaster and parental post-disaster psychiatric disorders. Because parents provide the primary caretaking and support for children post-disaster, addressing parent needs is critical to their ability to assist their children. Reducing parents’ symptoms should increase their emotional availability and enhance their ability to address their children’s needs. Given the challenges in providing disaster interventions directly to children, especially when resources are limited, addressing parent psychopathology and distress (even in the absence of focusing on children’s symptoms) may benefit children.

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Samantha Sahl and Christopher Knoepke had their article, “Using Shared Decision Making to Empower Sexually Exploited Youth,” published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Volume 57, Issue 11) in November, 2018.

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a pervasive public health crisis that affects children across the United States. After receiving public attention in recent years, several approaches have been developed to aid in identifying and intervening with trafficked youth to prevent further exploitation. Intervention efforts, however, are plagued by client dropout, treatment non-adherence, and failures in placement, partially due to the failure of service systems to recognize the child's voice and preferences in decision-making conversations. Authors propose a new approach to addressing CSEC by applying the model of shared decision-making (SDM) to working with high-risk and trafficked juveniles to increase youth voice and participation in care and to prevent revictimization. SDM involves the following: (1) identifying decisions to be made; (2) describing the risks and benefits of medically appropriate options; (3) clarifying the patient’s goals, values, and preferences that weigh on the decision; and (4) activating patients to engage with providers to come to a consensus. Applying the medical model of shared decision-making to CSEC is an innovative way to give youth autonomy and choice in their recovery and treatment. In other areas of medicine, SDM improves patient self-confidence, adherence to decisions, and patient−provider communication. By systematically including victims in treatment planning decisions, SDM has the potential to facilitate relationships with service providers that overcome the trafficker−victim trauma-bond, thereby restoring the child’s faith in systems’ abilities to meet their needs and honor their basic rights.

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