June is PTSD Awareness Month, so today Different Dream is raising awareness about childhood PTSD. Also known as childhood developmental trauma, this type of PTSD is not as well known adult PTSD. But it is every bit as real as the grown up version and its effects can be lifelong and debilitating if left untreated. Today’s post highlights resources about childhood PTSD you use to learn more about this complex and fascinating topic.

Childhood PTSD Websites

Two very comprehensive websites about childhood PTSD are Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child and The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). These sites have links to enough research studies, white papers, videos, trainings, and more to keep you learning for months. By the time you’ve explored the sites thoroughly, you will know more about childhood PTSD than 80% of the general public.

Books About Childhood PTSD

I read so many excellent books about childhood PTSD while conducting research for my new book, Does My Child Have PTSD? Here are some of my favorites:

• Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline’s Trauma-Proofing Your Kids
• Bruce Perry’s The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook
• Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell’s Parenting from the Inside Out: 10th Anniversary Edition
• Jayne Schooler’s Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
• Lenore Terr’s Too Scared to Cry

That should be enough to keep you busy until next June and a new resource list for PTSD Awareness Month, 2016. But if you finish them before then, you’ll find many more resources in Does My Child Have PTSD? which was released in October of 2015.

Your Favorite Childhood PTSD Resources?

Have you found any good childhood PTSD resources lately? Share them in the comment box if you like!

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