It organizes support groups and makes professional referrals nationwide. It provides licensed, trained professional mental health practitioners who offer crisis counseling to disaster victims. The practitioners are trained to recognize the emotional impact of a disaster. The site contains information on special projects, including materials on child development and maltreatment. This web site provides information, research, articles, and resources relating to emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
Information is applicable to clinicians and researchers as well as to individuals.
Sidran publishes books and educational materials, and provides resources and referrals to callers. It has developed education workshops on the psychological outcomes of severe childhood trauma for a variety of audiences, including adult survivors, their partners, caregivers of abused children, and non-clinical professionals. This organization raises and distributes funds for scientific research into the causes, cures, treatments, and prevention of brain disorders, primarily schizophrenia and depression. It provides information packages to patients and their families. The members of this nonprofit organization include people with TS, their families and friends, and health care professionals interested in the field.