This section of the website of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is for professional researchers, mental health treatment practitioners, and others who focus in their work on helping people cope with trauma. The website brings together free, in-depth continuing education courses with topics ranging from PTSD in older adulthood to cross-cultural considerations to suicidality to resilience.

This web page offers a checklist to identify the signs and symptoms of stress and depression. It also presents ways to refer a person for help.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress is dedicated to advancing trauma-informed knowledge, leadership, and methodologies. The Center’s work addresses a wide scope of trauma exposure from the consequences of combat, operations other than war, and terrorism, to natural and human-caused disasters and public health threats.

Created for behavioral health professionals, this SAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) gathers experience and information from experts in behavioral health to highlight best practice guidelines for pursuing a trauma-informed approach and providing trauma-specific services. The resource provides a research-based explanation about trauma and its impacts on substance use and mental disorders to explore intervention and treatment principles.

The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions tool is a brief (20-second) assessment that healthcare professionals can administer in a variety of settings (emergency department, inpatient medical unit, primary care clinics) to gauge suicide risk in patients. The toolkit website explains how to administer and respond to screening test results.

This section of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center website features information for people who work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals and communities. It presents basic information about the issue of suicide among AI/AN people, tools to begin to address the issue, best practices in suicide prevention and health promotion in Native communities, and links to a wide range of resources.

This guide discusses culture in general and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultures specifically, highlights risk and protective factors associated with AI/AN cultures, and offers guidance to AI/AN communities in preventing suicide. Tools for community suicide prevention and assessment of risk and protective factors are included in the guide.

Designed for mental health professionals and researchers, this online fact sheet provides information about trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicide. It presents suicide statistics, identifies types of trauma associated with increased risk of suicide (e.g., military sexual trauma), explores research on whether PTSD increases suicide risk, and highlights types of treatment for PTSD that may also lower risk for suicide.

This suicide assessment can be used by mental health professionals during their first contact with an individual at risk of suicidal behavior and completed suicide. The five-step assessment includes identification of risk and protective factors; conducting an inquiry about suicidality; determining level of risk and selecting an appropriate intervention; and documenting the process, including a follow-up plan.

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

This website section includes information that can help emergency services physicians and nurses manage patients and understand and treat injuries after radiation emergencies.

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center offers technical assistance, training, and materials to increase the knowledge and expertise of suicide prevention practitioners and other professionals serving people at risk for suicide. Resources include information on school-based prevention programs, a best practices registry, and state information.

Created by physicians for the public, this report explores climate change to bring attention to the risks and possible consequences it may have for public health. It analyzes the many challenges climate change poses and provides recommendations for protecting the community and reducing the possible effects of climate change.

Developed for health professionals and community leaders, this guide provides a comprehensive background about climate change and its impacts on individual and community well-being. It includes research-based strategies for addressing and supporting public mental health on individual and community levels.

Developed for healthcare and social services workers, this set of modules includes links to videos, checklists, and toolkits to help professionals in health care and social services recognize their stress levels and engage in self-care and resilience building. The three modules guide participants through discussion concerning compassion fatigue, stress mitigation, and strategies for coping, and include links to relevant resources and trainings.

This infographic from the Center for Health Care Strategies explores 10 key organizational and clinical practices for trauma-informed care. It includes a brief explanation of possible traumatic events, the impact of trauma on mental and physical health, and guidance for organizations seeking to implement a trauma-informed framework.

This webinar from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Learning Center outlines techniques practitioners can use for engaging families in helping to care for their children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ) who have experienced trauma. The webinar is available free of charge, but people must create an NCTSN Learning Center account to access it.

Developed for clinicians and other healthcare professionals, this tip sheet explores the importance of trauma assessment when working with families who have experienced a traumatic event to identify and address their specific needs. It includes tips for encouraging families to engage in the trauma assessment, provides best practices for conducting a family assessment, and promotes the assessment process as a necessary step to provide trauma-informed care.

Created for healthcare professionals with a focus on services for youth, this guide highlights the importance of pursuing gender-affirming care when implementing a trauma-informed approach in healthcare services. It includes tips for supporting transgender, gender diverse, and intersex (TGI) youth and explains the impact gender-affirming care can have on the resilience and traumatic healing of an individual.

This infographic showcases SAMHSA’s principles of trauma-informed care, which can guide practitioners and other groups working with individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, or part of other sexual orientation or gender identity minority groups (LGBTQ+). Tips include making services culturally relevant, listening openly, and creating opportunities for LGBTQ+ clients to take the lead in their treatment.

This web page provides information about trauma-informed screening and assessment practices and provides healthcare professionals with tools to determine the behavioral health needs of someone who has experienced a traumatic event. The web page highlights two screening and assessment tools, the Trauma Screening tool and the Trauma-informed Mental Health Assessment, which help healthcare professionals gather necessary information to identify strategies for supporting people who have experienced trauma.

This web page from the American Psychological Association provides a summary about trauma and its effects, and features related resources that explore the impact of traumatic events on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. It includes links to articles, podcasts, and other resources that explore traumatic stress in response to disaster events and evidence-based practices for healthcare service professionals.

This fact sheet outlines this evidence-based treatment and its purpose, including the target population and essential components. This resource provides a detailed analysis of Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and includes clinical and anecdotal evidence, materials and requirements, and proven outcomes to help inform healthcare professionals considering this treatment model.

Created for caregivers and other adults supporting native children who have experienced traumatic events, this fact sheet provides information about trauma identified in Indian Country and the prevalence of these events in the experiences of native children and youth. It explains the impact of trauma on this population and highlights the importance and successful strategies used in trauma-informed systems to address these specific needs.

This webinar provides information regarding trauma-informed organizations responding to racial trauma to identify strategies and resources to guide organizations addressing trauma and racial inequity. It includes professionals from the field who identify examples of trauma-informed organizations and challenges identified in the field that can be addressed to ensure individual and community resilience.