This children’s book follows Rosie, a young girl who is struggling after the death of her mother. It provides parents with strategies for offering support and encouraging healthy coping strategies for children struggling with grief. The children’s book is also adapted into a video format.

This children’s book follows Rosie, a young girl who is struggling after the death of her mother. It provides parents with strategies for offering support and encouraging healthy coping strategies for children struggling with grief. The children’s book is also adapted into a video format.

This web page provides general information about self-harm, suicide, and how prevalent suicidality is among children and youth. It also identifies prevention strategies and lists resources on suicidality in children and youth; resources include webinars, publications, and links to organizations focused on suicide prevention.

This web page offers a collection of free, downloadable resources for adolescents and young adults focusing on substance misuse, coping with disasters, and other traumatic events. The highlighted resources are listed by age groups including middle school youth, high school youth, and college students.

This web page highlights the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s approach to preventing firearm violence incidents, which includes data collection, research, and partnerships. It analyzes current funded research and surveillance, highlights new funding opportunities for research, and provides relevant resources to support firearm violence mitigation.

This web page highlights resources that explore incidents of gun violence. It includes relevant books for adults and children, podcast episodes, news articles, and other resources that highlight strategies for coping with acts of terror, planning for emergencies, and building resilience.

Developed for mass violence event survivors and their families, this web page features a collection of resources for victims. It includes helpline information, information regarding victim compensation programs, referrals to victim support organizations, and links to relevant resources such as tip sheets and mobile apps.

This collection features resources that focus on mass violence events. It provides resources such as tip sheets, trainings, and videos for parents, caregivers, educators, and children preparing for, responding to, or recovering from mass violence events.

This collection features resources that focus on school shooting events. It provides resources such as tip sheets, trainings, and videos for parents, caregivers, educators, and children preparing for, responding to, or recovering from school shooting events.

This article discusses the social roles assigned to women as caregivers and nurturers after a disaster. The publication examines the factors that affect the resilience of women, such as the division of labor, visibility levels, human development factors, recourse to legal protection, access to information, supply of information, and importance of including women in the disaster recovery decision-making processes.

This web page describes the foci of research on job stress conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), as well as how job stress research fits into the broader research agenda within and beyond NIOSH. The page includes links to a bibliographic database that includes job stress research, related resources, and other NIOSH web pages about stress at work.

Presents 2012 data from an annual nationwide survey that measures attitudes and perceptions of stress among the general public and identifies leading sources of stress, common behaviors used for stress prevention and management and the impact of stress on our lives.

This paper addresses the specific vulnerability of girls and women with respect to mortality from natural disasters and their aftermath and discusses how natural disasters lower the life expectancy of women more than that of men. In other words, natural disasters (and their subsequent impact), on average, kill more women than men or kill women at an earlier age than men.

This website provides a listing of publications and testimonies related to various behavioral health issues among military personnel.

ISTSS promotes advancement and exchange of knowledge about severe stress and trauma. This knowledge includes understanding the scope and consequences of traumatic exposure, preventing traumatic events and ameliorating their consequences, and advocating for the field of traumatic stress.

The authors assess the long-term psychological effects on civilians who were exposed to sulfur mustard gas. Many civilians reported emotional distress even 20 years after exposure.

This review article discusses the evidence for the effectiveness of psychological interventions within the first month following any type of traumatic event. [Authors: McNally, R. J., Bryant, R. A., Ehlers, A.]

This article features infographics that show how Ebola is similar to and different from several other infectious diseases, including H1N1 pandemic influenza, seasonal influenza, and malaria. It includes a table with detailed information about Ebola and other infectious diseases.

This web page is a part of the Rural Health Research Gateway and provides publications and articles specific to emergency preparedness and response. It also links to information on studies on rural emergency preparedness and response.

These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

The mission of the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence, according to its website, is "to promote[s] state-of-the-science traumatic brain injury care from point-of-injury to reintegration for service members, veterans, and their families to prevent and mitigate consequences of mild to severe TBI [traumatic brain injury]."

This web page provides information on the current funding opportunities available from the Office for Victims of Crime. It highlights grant funding opportunities in response to mass violence events and provides guidance for those interested in applying.

In this app designed for children in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, participants help cities prepare for four types of natural disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes).

This press release covers findings from the American Psychological Association’s 2008 Stress in America survey. Key findings include that the financial downturn at the time was a significant stressor on Americans, particularly on women, and that stress people were experiencing was affecting their health and activities aimed at managing stress. The release also provides stress management tips.

This article presents findings from a survey conducted with 153 civilians in three towns in Iran to examine the mental health effects on survivors after exposure to chemical warfare. [Citation: Hashemian F, Khoshnood K, Desai MM, Falahati F, Kasl S, Southwick S. Anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress in Iranian survivors of chemical warfare. JAMA. 2006 Aug 2;296(5):560-6.]