How Trauma Can Affect You (CYP)
An illustrated handout designed to help children and adolescents understand common reactions to trauma. It supports therapeutic conversations, psychoeducation, and assessment, using accessible language and visuals to facilitate engagement.
How Trauma Can Affect You (CYP)
Trauma can have a big impact on how we think, feel, and act. This tool explains some of these reactions so they feel less confusing or scary. You can use it to explore how a traumatic experience has affected you too.
Overview
This resource offers a developmentally appropriate overview of common trauma reactions in young people. Designed to support psychoeducation, it describes experiences such as fear, flashbacks, dissociation, and negative thoughts in simple terms.
The handout includes two versions: One with brief explanations of each symptom cluster; Another with blank boxes for clients to note or draw their own experiences. It can help clients make sense of their symptoms and give clinicians a shared language to explore distress. It may also be useful for educating families, carers, and school staff.
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