Seminars, Shorts & Podcasts
Trauma Terms
The seminars and shorts found on this page were commissioned by ICTG or produced by other agencies and made available online. They include topics most pertinent to those leading congregations and communities after disaster.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Dr. Robert Macy, co-founder of the International Center for Disaster Resilience, describes the model of trauma-informed care for organizations seeking to provide healing. This film is published by Family Resources. |
How is Trust Built?
Author and researcher John Gottman describes how to build trust and attunement in basic and incremental ways. These skills are proven to help people heal from trauma because they strengthen senses of safety and reliable relationship. |
What is Compassion Fatigue?
Dr. Frank Ochberg explains causes, symptoms and methods for coping with compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, particularly for faith leaders. Excerpts from this interview also appear in the DVD "When Helping Hurts: Preventing & Treating Compassion Fatigue," from www.giftfromwithin.org. |
What is PTSD?
Dr. Barbara Rothbaum, Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at the Emory University School of Medicine, talks about signs, treatment, and hope for healing from PTSD. Find more videos like this one at: www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife. |
How does PTSD Affect Survivors and their Relationships?
Dr. Rachel Yehuda describes the roots of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, how common it is, its symptoms, and the work of restoration. |
What is Somatic Experiencing, or, How does Trauma Affect a Person's Nervous System?
Peter A. Levine, trauma-treatment expert talks about the effects of trauma on a person's nervous system, and methods for gradually releasing compressed fight-or-flight energy. |
What is Safe Trauma Recovery?
Babette Rothschild, prolific author and trainer of trauma treatment therapists, describes important keys to healing after trauma. |
What is Personal Resiliency?
In this five-minute short Dr. Don Bosch, Director of Clinical Services at the Headington Institute, discusses the good, but challenging, aspects to building your personal resilience. |
What are the Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
A 14-minute executive summary of a four-hour DVD of interviews with the co-founders of the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experiences Study released by the Academy on Violence and Abuse. The organization educates health care professionals about the often unrecognizable health effects of violence and abuse. ACE Study DVD – Executive Summary from AVA on Vimeo. |
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. In this TED talk, pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris, director of the Center for Youth Wellness, explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on. |
Social Influences in Life Development
Moshe Szyf describes how the emerging scientific exploration of epigenetics provides insights into how social experiences influence human behavior and development, including nurture, healing, and growth. |
How Students Study Interdisciplinary Aspects of Trauma and Forgiveness
A conversation at Boston University School of Theology, moderated by Chris Schlauch and hosted by ICTG Advisor Shelly Rambo and Steven Sandage. |
How We Restore Our Bodies
Bessel van der Kolk is medical director of the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, MA. He's aslo professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. His most recent book, The Body Keeps the Score, is listed on the ICTG book list. |
How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations
Rachel Yehuda is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. |