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This guide will help you not only recognize the signs of trauma but will show you how to best support individuals dealing with it. You'll also learn how to: * Encourage and cultivate resilience * Practice intentional reflection * Identify compassion fatigue and methods to alleviate the effects Included is information for leaders on how to provide trauma-informed professional development and training to their staff or community. The more you know about the overall impact of trauma on a developing child or teen, the more effective you will be in promoting long-term overall well-being. There are many resiliency and trauma-focused resources that focus on defining and identifying key aspects of trauma and resilience, yet, few provide specifics as to how to support youths in overcoming trauma. For this reason, this guide has been structured to primarily focus on concrete and user-friendly strategies for supporting children and teens in building resilience and the skills to counteract trauma, as well as meaningful follow up to ensure enduring effectiveness.

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Building Resiliency in Youth: A Trauma-Informed Guide for Working with Youth in Schools delivers the on the spot information that teachers, administrators, and mental health leaders need to be effective. Through a series of snap skills, stories, and actual activities to use with young learners the book shares a stream of meaningful ways to think about developing awareness about trauma, the science behind the brain's response to stress, and next action steps that answer the important now what? question. Through a progression of techniques and strategies tailored to building success, author Kat McGrady shares insights on how to build a sanctuary zone for each and every young learner and support their resiliency in the process. There are many reasons that now is the precisely right time for this important book to be read - we are involved in the throes of a pandemic and its resulting shift on what schools and schooling look like; we find there are more traumatized students, family members, and colleagues than ever before; and we realize there isn't a single person who works with children who doesn't need to learn this critical information. Let the book clubs begin! - Dr. Karen Karp, Professor and Author, Johns Hopkins School of Education What a great book! - David, Amazon

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Kat McGrady (Ed.D, LCPC, NCC) has experience as an educator, school counselor, and mental health therapist. Her dedication to child & adolescent wellbeing and to education is evident in her work to provide parents, professionals, and youth with individualized strategies and evidence-based practices in order to promote growth and success. Currently, Kat works in private practice as therapist and parent coach. She also serves as an adjunct professor for the Johns Hopkins University Master's in Education program, as well as a doctoral advisor for the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.

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