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• A Guide to Managing Stress in Crisis Response Professions (SMA05-4113)
  Booklet
  Crisis response workers and managers—which include first responders, public health workers, construction workers, transportation workers, utilities workers, and volunteers—are unique in that they are repeatedly exposed to extraordinarily stressful events. This easy-to-use pocket guide focuses on general principles of stress management and offers simple, practical strategies that can be incorporated into the daily routine of managers and workers. It also provides a concise orientation to the signs and symptoms of stress.
  
  
• After a Disaster: Self-Care Tips for Dealing With Stress (KEN01-0097)
  Fact Sheet
  Covers things to remember when trying to understand disaster events, signs that adults need stress management assistance, and ways to ease stress.
  
  
• After a Disaster: What Teens Can Do (KEN01-0092)
  Brochure
  Provides information for teens to help understand some of their reactions as well as others, to the terrorist events. Suggestions are also provided to help ease the unfamiliar feelings related to the event.
  
  
• Anniversary Reactions to a Traumatic Event: The Recovery Process Continues (NMH02-0140)
  Fact Sheet
  Anniversary Reactions to a Traumatic Event: The Recovery Process Continues describes common anniversary reactions among victims of traumatic events and explains how these reactions can be a significant part of the recovery process.
  
  
• Anxiety Disorders (KEN98-0045)
  Fact Sheet
  Anxiety disorders range from feelings of uneasiness most of the time to immobilizing bouts of terror. This fact sheet briefly describes generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It is intended only as a starting point for gaining an understanding of anxiety disorders.
  
  
• Caring for Your Child (CA-0034)
  Article
  This reproducible drop-in article offers simple tips on protecting a child’s physical safety and emotional well-being. 1998. 2 pp.
  
  
• Children's and Adolescent's Mental Health: A Glossary of Terms (CA-0005)
  Fact Sheet
  This glossary defines words frequently used when discussing the mental health needs of children. 1997. 4 pp.
  
  
• Cómo ayudar a los niños a enfrentar el miedo y la ansiedad (KEN01-0099)
  Fact Sheet
  En situaciones en que las tragedias afectan a su familia de modo personal o llegan a su hogar por medio de la prensa o televisión, usted puede ayudar a los niños a controlar la ansiedad causada por situaciones de violencia, muerte o desastres.
  
  
• Friends Don't Watch Friends Fall Apart (CA-0019D)
  Print Ad Slick
  This camera-ready print advertisement encourages young people to be alert to signs of possible trouble among their friends and to take appropriate action if necessary. 1998. 3 pp.
  
  
• Helping Children Cope with Fear and Anxiety (CA-BKMARKR02)
  Bookmarker
  This bookmark lists ways that parents can help their children cope with fear and anxiety after a tragic event.
  
  
• Helping Your Child With: Anxiety Disorders (CA-0007)
  Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet defines anxiety disorders, identifies warning signs, discusses risk factors, describes types of help available, and suggests what parents or other caregivers can do. 1997. 3 pp.
  
  
• How Families Can Help Children Cope With Fear and Anxiety (CA-0022)
  Article
  This reproducible drop-in article provides tips for parents to keep the lines of communication with their children open and alerts parents and other caregivers to common signs of fear and anxiety. 2002. 1 p.
  
  
• Parents: Be Role Models for Your Children (SVP-0010)
  Brochure
  This brochure offers tips for parents and caregivers to communicate with children about drugs and violence.
  
  
• Psychosocial Issues for Children and Adolescents in Disasters (ADM86-1070R)
  Booklet
  The materials discussed in this booklet will give crisis response workers essential information about the impact of disasters on individuals, how the trauma associated with such events impacts children, the unique world of children, and the diversity of family structures in which children reside.
  
  
• Recovering Your Mental Health: Dealing With the Effects of Trauma - A Self-Help Guide (SMA-3717)
  Booklet
  This is one of seven mental health self-help booklets. It focuses on helping individuals cope with traumatic events and makes suggestions of how they can take charge of their own recovery. It also provides a list of additional resources.
  
  
• Stress Prevention and Management Approaches For Rescue Workers in the Aftermath of Terrorist Acts (KEN01-0112)
  Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides information for rescue workers on recovering from working at the site of terrorist acts. It also provides a hotline for more information.
  
  
• Suicide Prevention: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Brochure: When It Seems Like Tthere Is No Hope, There Is Help. (SVP06-0141)
  Brochure
  
  
• Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: What to Expect in Your Personal, Family, Work, and Financial Life (NMH02-0139)
  Fact Sheet
  The Long-term Impact of a Traumatic Event: What to Expect in Your Personal, Family, Work, and Financial Life cites examples of personal uncertainties, family relationship changes, work disruptions, and financial worries that may contribute to the long-term impact of a traumatic event. Also includes tips on how to survive the road to recovery from a traumatic event.
  
  
• Tips for Talking to Children After a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers (KEN01-0091)
  Fact Sheet
  Offers tips to parents on how to talk to children about the terrorist events.
  
  
• Tips for Talking to Children After a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers (KEN01-0093)
  Brochure
  Explains how preschool age, early childhood, and adolescent children may respond to the terrorist events.
  
  
• Tips for Talking to Children in Trauma: Interventions at Home for Preschoolers to Adolescents (NMH02-0138)
  Fact Sheet
  Age-specific Interventions at Home for Children in Trauma: From Preschool to Adolescence suggests activities arranged by age group to help children share recovery feelings and experiences at home. Includes activities for preschoolers, elementary age children, and pre-adolescents and adolescents.
  
  

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