Treatment Related
This section provides web resources to assist in coping and treatment following trauma. There is information for those who have been through a traumatic experience, as well as information for providers and clinical practice guidelines.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treatment
Coping and Self-Care following trauma
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afterdeployment.org
A mental wellness resource for Service Members, Veterans, and Military Families.
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Gift From Within
A nonprofit organization dedicated to those who suffer from PTSD, those at risk for PTSD, and those who care for traumatized individuals. Includes essays, articles, poetry and art, meditations, Q&A on PTSD, book reviews, and more.
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Sesame Street's Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes
A bilingual educational outreach initiative designed for military families and their young children to share.
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Gateway to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
A link to 4 national and international organizations, here to help you with articles, references, web-links, mini-courses, 800 phone access and e-mail pen-pal resources. Provided by the Dart Foundation.
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Project Liberty
Here you can find educational pamphlets in a variety of languages created following the 9/11 disaster.
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PTSD Alliance
The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Alliance is here to help, not as professionals, but as peers.
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Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
RAINN carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, helps victims, and attempts to ensure that rapists are brought to justice. This website contains statistics, counseling resources, prevention tips, and news.
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Sesame Street Parents
Advice by Sesameworkshop.org about how to talk with children about tragedy, and when to seek professional help.
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Sleepnet
Links to sleep disorder centers across the U.S.
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Support and Family Education
An 18-session family education program for people who care about someone with mental illness.
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Veterans and Families Coming Home
This site provides information for families, employers, and communities, to help support homecoming veterans in their transition from military to civilian life. Resources and readings are provided as well as information on preparing for homecoming...
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Web MD
General information on health.
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Courage To Care Campaign
Courage to Care is an electronic health campaign for professionals serving the military community, as well as for military and families. It provides fact sheets relevant to military life developed by experts from Uniformed Services University of the...
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Anxiety Disorders Assoc of America Self-help Support Groups
Self-help and support groups are a way of empowering people to help themselves, and others, on the path to recovery. Participation in a self-help group can end the painful isolation of suffering alone with a disorder that is disruptive and debilitating...
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About.com's Trauma Resource Page
A comprehensive listing of information, resources, links, and support groups on a wide array of topics related to trauma, particularly incest and child abuse.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
A link to the most popular US organization for recovery from alcoholism. Provides information about AA support groups around the US.
Resources for Mental Health Care Providers
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National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The NCTSN was established to improve access to care, treatment, and services for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events and to encourage and promote collaboration between service providers in the field.
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VA Telemedicine
This page explains the history of telemedicine at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and discusses care coordination.
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Veterans Health Initiative (VHI)
Courses to help recognize and record connections between health effects and military service. Courses cover a variety of topics (PTSD, military sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, etc.) intended to prepare providers to better serve veterans.
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Military Home Front
The official Department of Defense web site for reliable Quality of Life information designed to help troops and their families, leaders, and service providers. Whether you live the military lifestyle or support those who do, you'll find what you...
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MIRECC on PTSD
General information about PTSD from the Mental Illness Research Educational & Clinical Center (MIRECC) at Standford.
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My HealtheVet
My HealtheVet is the VHA Health Portal created for you, the veteran and your family, and for VA employees. This new health portal will enable you to access health information, tools and services anywhere in the world you can access the Internet.
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Association for Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (formerly AABT)
The Association for Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT, formerly AABT) is a professional organization that maintains a database of CBT therapists.
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PAR: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.
PAR offers new and time tested assessments in a variety of subject areas....
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PD Health
This site was developed by DoDs Deployment Health Clinical Center as a resource for clinicians, veterans, and their families. Their goal is to create a partnership between military men and women, veterans, their families, and their providers to ensure...
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Resources for torture survivors
A link for therapists and other professionals who are working with those affected by war, torture, or terrorism.
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Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is a present-focused therapy to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse.??? The treatment is available as a book, providing both client handouts and guidance for clinicians.
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TF-CBTWeb: Course for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for abused and traumatized children
TF-CBTWeb, is a web-based, distance learning course for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for for abused and traumatized children who have symptoms of posttraumatic stress. It was developed and tested in multiple clinical trials and is...
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Virtual Innovative Partnerships (VIP)
This Web site is for VA health care providers of PTSD services, providing information on treatments, screening tools, and facility resources. The goal of this site is to connect health care systems with trainers, who are able to provide in-depth training...
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Courage To Care Campaign
Courage to Care is an electronic health campaign for professionals serving the military community, as well as for military and families. It provides fact sheets relevant to military life developed by experts from Uniformed Services University of the...
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APA: Terrorism
The APA Task Force on Promoting Resilience in Response to Terrorism has produced nine fact sheets intended to assist psychologists seeking to foster resilience in a variety of populations, including adults, children, first responders, mental health...
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CDC Disaster Mental Health Resources following disaster
This page includes information on general strategies for promoting mental health and resilience that have been developed by various organizations based on experiences in prior disasters. While each individual is affected differently by a disaster,...
Assessing and Measuring trauma exposure and PTSD
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