Resources for families - Hostage US

Resources for families

Hostage US has compiled the following resources specifically for the families of hostages. The resources are organized by topic to make the resources as easily accessible as possible. The topics range from lifestyle tips to how to handle stress and grief and more. If you have not found what you are looking for, let us know and we will do our best to find something to meet your needs.

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

How to Reduce Stress Through Nutrition

Staying Healthy When Stressed | Northwestern Medicine

Don’t Snooze on Nutrition: See How Foods Affect Sleep

Family challenges during a kidnapping

How to cope during a kidnapping

Keeping your family healthy while a family member is being held hostage

Stress, Nutrition and Diet

Beating Stress Through Nutrition

Nutrition Tips – Keep it Simple!

Exercise for Stress and Anxiety

How Exercise Affects Your Body and Mind

Staying Healthy When Stressed | Northwestern Medicine

Managing Stress for A Healthy Family

Family challenges during a kidnapping

Keeping your family healthy while a family member is being held hostage

Exercising to relax

7 Ways Exercise Relieves Stress

Exercise and stress: Get moving to manage stress

Managing Stress

Exercise for Stress and Anxiety

How Exercise Affects Your Body and Mind

The Ultimate Guide To Stress Management

How to Reduce Stress Through Nutrition

Stress and Sleep

Staying Healthy When Stressed | Northwestern Medicine

How Does Stress Affect The Body When We Don’t Manage It?

How Stress Affects Your Brain | TED-Ed

Managing Stress for A Healthy Family

Open Up! Writing About Trauma Reduces Stress, Aids Immunity

How to cope during a kidnapping

Battling Stress: What You Need to Know

Trauma and Health: Physical Health Consequences of Exposure to Extreme Stress

Exercising to relax

7 Ways Exercise Relieves Stress

Exercise and stress: Get moving to manage stress

Staying Healthy in Times of Stress

Stress, Nutrition and Diet

Beating Stress Through Nutrition

Living with Grief

Fifteen Ways to Support Someone Who Is Grieving

Nine Best Books for Dealing with Grief and Loss

Victims’ Families Mourn Without Body

Grieving With No Body

Understanding Grief

How Grief Can Make You Sick

RAINN | National Resources for Sexual Assault Survivors and their Loved Ones

Grief: What Everyone Should Know | Tanya Villanueva Tepper | TEDxUMiami

How Grief Feels | Robbie Stamp | TEDxLondon

The Grieving Process: Coping with Death

Seeking Support for Returned Hostages and Their Families

Grief: Coping with the Loss of a Loved One

Hostage-Taking: Motives, Resolution, Coping and Effects

Return of Remains of Deceased U.S. Citizens

Coping with Grief and Loss

Trauma and Your Family

Common Grief Symptoms

Dealing with the Sleeplessness that Accompanies Grief

Tips for Coping with Sleeplessness in Grief

Families with Children

Coping with Loss: Bereavement and Grief

Sesame Street | When Families Grieve

Helping Children with Grief, Loss and Trauma

How Does Trauma Affect Sleep?

For Parents and Carers of Teenagers and Young Adults Experiencing Trauma

Tips for Talking With and Helping Children and Youth Cope After a Disaster or Traumatic Event

Going Back to School After a Tragedy

Whats the Best Treatment for PTSD in Children

Children & Trauma

Coping During a Kidnapping

Resources for Parents and Caregivers of Children Recovering from Trauma

Trauma and Your Family

The 12 Core Concepts: Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families

Understanding Child Traumatic Stress: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS

When a Child’s Parent has PTSD

How Traumatic Events Affect Child Development

Helping children cope with traumatic stress

The Long Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

Preparing for Return

Navigating Communication in Relationships After Trauma

Helping Loved Ones Live with Trauma

Trauma’s Impact on Intimate Relationships

Loving a Survivor of Trauma

Three Concepts to Help Trauma Survivors Move Forward Into Healthier Relationships

Family members perspective on hostage return and the reintegration process

Coping During a Kidnapping

Here’s What You Need to Know About Reintegration

Relationships and PTSD

Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms of Drug Use and Addiction

Helping Loved Ones Live with Trauma

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Resources

The Connections Between Trauma and Alcohol Abuse

Dealing with Survivor Guilt and Grief

Six Tips for Handling Survivor Guilt

What Everybody Should Know About Survivor’s Guilt

What is PTSD? – National Center for PTSD

What Is Trauma Therapy and How Does It Work?

RAINN | National Resources for Sexual Assault Survivors and their Loved Ones

What Not to Say to Someone with PTSD

What Are Emotional Triggers and How Can We Manage Them?

What are “Triggers” When Dealing with Post Traumatic Stress?

Dr. John Mundt on Experiencing a Flashback – PTSD

Remaining Resilient after Traumatic Events Leaflet

The “Walking Wounded”: Here-and-Now Coping Strategies to Ease Reintegration

What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?

How to Help Someone with PTSD

The Value of Hostage Debriefing After Captivity

The Road to Recovery

Prolonged Incarceration: Effects on Hostages of Terrorism

Family members perspective on hostage return and the reintegration process

Coping During a Kidnapping

Managing Stress & Trauma on Investigative Projects

Working with Victims and Survivors: Minimise Further Harm

Kidnapping and hostage-taking: a review of effects, coping and resilience

Help for Family and Friends of a Survivor of Trauma

Effects of PTSD on Family

4 TIPS on HOW TO HELP someone with PTSD