Childhood Trauma and Resilience addresses screening, safety, and healing pathways for adversity—violence, neglect, loss, displacement—and their neurodevelopmental and behavioral sequelae. This page turns research into coordinated care: trauma-informed interviews, stabilization of sleep and safety, and phased therapies that respect timing and readiness. If you’re reviewing an early childhood mental health conference, you’ll find models that link pediatrics, schools, and social services to sustain gains beyond clinic visits. Family partnership, cultural humility, and strengths-based language anchor plans so children and caregivers can recover function and confidence, not just reduce symptoms.

Implementation spans home, school, and community. We outline how to prevent re-traumatization during assessment, establish predictable routines, and build coping skills through play, attachment work, and age-appropriate CBT elements. When risk is high, teams coordinate with protective services and legal supports while maintaining therapeutic alliance. Sleep, nutrition, and safe movement are early targets; digital tools can reinforce emotion labeling and calming skills at home. Equity is central—materials in preferred languages, transport help, and caregiver time accommodation widen access. For trauma-specific symptom clusters and exposure protocols, see PTSD and Trauma-Related Anxiety, which complements this page’s system-level focus.