Many children experience traumatic events like injuries, disasters, war, assaults, and maltreatment both in the United States and around the world. These devastating experiences can put children at risk for serious mental health issues throughout their lives, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, substance abuse, and even violent or self-destructive behaviors. This presentation aims to provide a perspective on how trauma affects children and their families, sharing an approach that has helped countless people. Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) is an intervention method designed for traumatized children and their families. TST focuses on helping children develop greater control over their emotions and behaviors when faced with these reminders, and guides families on how to support children in building resilience. Additionally, TST addresses situations where children encounter real threats. The presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.

 

Glenn Saxe, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman University School of Medicine and an Investigator within NYU Langone Health’s Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Saxe’s research has focused on determining factors that contribute to children’s risk for adverse outcomes following trauma and targeting factors using advanced computational data methods to lessen risk. Recently, Dr. Saxe and his team received over 7.6 million dollars in funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) to establish the Center on Causal Data Science for Child and Adolescent Maltreatment Prevention (the CHAMP Center). Dr. Saxe is also the director of the Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation, a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).