This episode features a helpful conversation on trauma with Dr. Rebecca Mathews, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor at UNC-Greensboro. Dr.  Mathews is a licensed professional counselor and board-approved supervisor. Over the past 14 years, she worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families in a variety of settings (inpatient, outpatient, criminal justice, private practice), and specialized in suicide prevention. Dr. Mathews is a passionate supervisor and educator who strives to empower the next generation of counselors to serve the community using trauma-informed and evidence-based practices built upon a therapeutic foundation. She is a frequent presenter and consultant for mental health organizations and works to disseminate research to providers in the field.

Resources

• The Body Keeps the Score  by Bessel van der Kolk
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  • Includes resources in Spanish
• Counseling.org American Counseling Association
• Apa.org  American Psychological Association
• Aacap.org  The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Facts sheets for families
  • Resources in spanish
• complextrauma.org

References

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (U.S.). (2014). Trauma-informed care in behavioral health services : a treatment improvement protocol (Ser. Tip, 57). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. 

https://www.counseling.org/docs/trauma-disaster/fact-sheet-9---vicarious-trauma.pdf

Dalenberg, C. J., Straus, E., & Carlson, E. B. (2017). Defining trauma. In S. N. Gold (Ed.), APA handbooks in psychology®. APA handbook of trauma psychology: Foundations in knowledge (p. 15–33). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000019-002