This website provides information, education, and help to those adversely affected by or interested in cultic and other high-control groups and relationships.

The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a global network of people concerned about psychological manipulation and abuse in cultic and other high-control environments.

Their ‘How can we help you?’ page has cult-specific resources for survivors, their loved ones, and professionals; as well as a long list of pertinent ‘Cults 101’ resources.

This website contains a comprehensive collection of information about ACEs.

ACEs can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention works to understand ACEs and prevent them.

This website provides information about psychological trauma. It also provides tools to teach others about trauma, including discussions about current controversies related to trauma.

Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. As such, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are an important public health issue. Learn how everyone can help prevent ACEs by using strategies to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for all children.

A journal paper about myths associated with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Guidelines for trauma-informed services and trauma-specific care for Indigenous Australian children.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and household challenges and later-life health and well-being. ACEs can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. CDC works to understand ACEs and prevent them. The details and results of the study can be found here.

Australian guidelines for the treatment of mental health trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Many service providers feel poorly equipped to have conversations with people they know or suspect have experienced trauma.

This Blue Knot publication helps service providers to know when and how to ‘talk about trauma’ or to screen for trauma. This is not about providing clinical or specialist treatment. It’s a role everyone in services can play.

Research shows that positive relational experiences assist trauma recovery while negative social interactions impede it. Daily interactions in services can play a major role supporting recovery from trauma.

Large numbers of people present to their primary care practitioners with diverse health issues, many of which are complex trauma-related, but which neither they nor their GPs identify as such. The physical, psychological, financial and social costs of failure to identify cumulative, underlying trauma in primary care consultations are substantial.

As primary health care plays a critical role in health promotion, prevention, screening, early intervention and treatment, primary care providers need to be able to confidently `talk about trauma’ in their daily practice. This includes intervening early and effectively with patients with a lived experience of trauma to promote better care and health and well-being outcomes.

This publication seeks to educate the primary health care sector about the nature, types and adverse health impacts of trauma. Its goal is to help build the capacity of primary care providers to better engage with patients impacted by trauma, as a precursor to skills-based training.

This report from Blue Knot Foundation and Pegasus Economics delineates the substantial costs of not providing the right support and services for adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse. It highlights a strategy for addressing the structural budget deficit by addressing the public health issue of childhood trauma and abuse.

This video uses expressive therapies, in particular art as a creative means to engage in a meditative exercise to calm the body and mind. This exercise brings you into the present moment engaging in mindfulness.

Blue Knot Foundation has developed a series of 5 short videos with funding from Federal Department of Health.

Given the prevalence of trauma and its effects, it is important for people to be informed about trauma and how best to support people who may have experienced it, particularly complex trauma related to trauma and abuse in childhood.

This free-to-download paper by Blue Knot Foundation presents current research into the need for and implementation of trauma informed practice into legal and justice settings, where the uptake of trauma-informed practice is vital to spearhead the change needed to optimise outcomes for clients, as well as for practitioners, and the system itself.

Blue Knot Review is a quarterly publication for professionals working with adults who have experiences of complex trauma. It features cutting edge research and new developments in trauma-informed, vicarious trauma and complex trauma policy and practice.

Ghosthunter is a real-world case study that draws from interviews filmed over seven years during the making of this documentary film; and shows the complexity and impact of childhood trauma, abuse and neglect.

An Educational Screening Guide and three Professional Education Modules (that can work separately or together) were developed in conjunction with Blue Knot Foundation to inform and equip workers, services, and the wider community to understand and respond to complex issues stemming from childhood abuse, neglect and its long term effects.

Each video clip comes with a facilitator's guide with discussion topics and questions.

This video introduces grounding with a short exercise to demonstrate how to regulate the body. There are many different types of grounding exercises that can be used to regulate bringing self back to the present moment and connecting with the body.

Blue Knot Foundation has developed a series of 5 short videos with funding from Federal Department of Health.

Given the prevalence of trauma and its effects, it is important for people to be informed about trauma and how best to support people who may have experienced it, particularly complex trauma related to trauma and abuse in childhood.

Resources for professionals on trauma and dissociative disorders for professionals, including FAQs about complex trauma and dissociation, annotated bibliography, treatment guidelines, diagnostic tools, and screening instruments.

Working with clients who dissociate is not rocket-science … it's just good basic decency and unconditional positive regard that attunes to and is curious about the experience of another human being. This article delves into ten aspects of how to do that in a room with a dissociative client (spoiler alert: many points also apply to ALL clients).

Blue Knot Foundation has developed a series of 5 short videos with funding from Federal Department of Health.

Given the prevalence of trauma and its effects, it is important for people to be informed about trauma and how best to support people who may have experienced it, particularly complex trauma related to trauma and abuse in childhood.

Blue Knot developed this series of fact sheets to increase understanding about memory. This includes the relationship between trauma and memory, types of memory, body memories, delayed recall of memory and the role of dissociation.

Blue Knot has developed these fact sheets to provide basic knowledge about trauma, the different types of trauma and the impacts of trauma.

These fact sheets provide an overview of key information in regard to trauma and the different types of trauma, such as childhood trauma, complex trauma and intergenerational trauma.

Blue Knot has developed a set of fact sheets to support safe trauma-informed conversations and work with people with complex trauma experiences. This series includes fact sheets for workers, managers, health professionals, General Practitioners and services.

Blue Knot has developed a series of fact sheets about trauma related experiences. It includes fact sheets about coping strategies, emotions and arousal -including dissociation, impacts, healing and resilience and identity and belonging.

Blue Knot Foundation’s Practice Guidelines portal offers extensively endorsed and integrative guidelines for diverse groups of health practitioners about the clinical and research evidence around working clinically with complex trauma and dissociative clients. This link also offers access to additional complementary guidelines that provide an overview of the differences between working with complex trauma clients and standard counselling approaches; a guide to therapist competencies for working with complex trauma and dissociation; and a helpful guide for clinical supervisors of therapists.

Blue Knot Foundation’s Practice Guidelines portal offers extensively endorsed and integrative guidelines for diverse groups of health practitioners about the clinical and research evidence around working clinically with complex trauma and dissociative clients. This link also offers access to additional complementary guidelines that provide an overview of the differences between working with complex trauma clients and standard counselling approaches; a guide to therapist competencies for working with complex trauma and dissociation; and a helpful guide for clinical supervisors of therapists.