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Fact Sheets, Guides, & Toolkits on trauma, stress, and secondary trauma 

• AILA 
  • Overcoming Secondary Trauma in Immigration Practice powerpoint & online webinar
• NCTSN
  • Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children (4-part webinar series) webinar/online course
  • Resources on Secondary Trauma:
    • ​Trauma-Informed Legal Advocacy: A Resource for Juvenile Defense Attorneys
    • Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals
    • Trauma: What Child Welfare Attorneys Should Know
• ABA 
  • Trauma Exposure Response: A Resource for Child Welfare Attorneys. 
  • Understanding Secondary Trauma: A Guide for Lawyers Working with Child Victims
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Establishing a Trauma-Informed Lawyer-Client Relationship.
  • The Impact of Trauma on the Attorney-Client Relationship 
  • Understanding Trauma and its Impact on Child Clients
• Texas Bar Association 
  • Texas Lawyer's Assistance Program
    • TLAP Support Toolbox 
• SAMHSA
  • SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach
  • Trauma Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services book​​
• American Psychological Association 
  • Stress (very helpful articles on identifying and coping with stress)
• National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health
  • Trauma Informed Legal Advocacy Project (TILA)
    • TILA offers numerous trauma-informed practice handouts about a number of topics including: Legal Interviewing & Traumatic Triggers; Trauma, Memory, & Trust-Building; Frustration & Anger - Reflective Practice Techniques;  Emotional Safety Planning for Court; TILA in Asylum & Immigration Proceedings; Trauma & Memory: a Curated Selection of Resources for Attorneys & Legal Advocates; & more.
• Trauma-Informed Law project.
• CDC Guidance on trauma-informed approach
• CDC/Kaiser Permanente ACES study
• The American Institute of Stress
  • What is Stress? 
  • Stress Management
  • Compassion Fatigue (includes CF process chart from Figley 2001)
• Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project 
• The Resilience Alliance

 Free Online Self-Assessments

Pro-QOL Measure measuring compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Recommended measure to take: ProQol 5 Self-Score

Bride STSS Scale, more specific to STSD than ProQOL

Secondary Traumatic Stress-Informed Organization Assessment (STSI-OA), for organizations 

Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (Maslach Burnout Inventory is most commonly used burnout scale but not free)

Brief Resilience Scale by Smith et al.

There are also scales for Generalized Anxiety Disorder & Depression.

Books 
Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
• Waking the Tiger, Peter Levine
• Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services, SAMHSA​

Secondary Trauma & other stresses

• Trauma Stewardship, Laura van dernoot Lipsky
• Burnout, Emily & Amelia Nagoski
• Compassion Fatigue: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in Those who Treat the Traumatized, Charles R. Figley
• Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout: a Trauma-Sensitive Workbook, William Steele

Podcasts (my favorite way to learn)

• It's Not Just in Your Head
• Haymarket Books Live
• The Latinx Mental Health Podcast
• They are Just Deportees
• Trauma-Informed Everything
• Beyond Prisons
• The Compassion Fatigue Podcast with Jennifer Blough, LPC
• The Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Podcast, Caroline Strawson
• The Trauma-Informed Lawyer hosted by Myrna McCallum
• The Mindful Kind, Rachael Kable