Spanish Trauma Informed Care Handouts (2026)

Trauma-informed care handouts in Spanish, for your Spanish-speaking clients. Every handout, worksheet, sample entry, script, and therapist page is in Spanish, in plain language that clients can actually use.

What is in the pack

• How trauma changes the body and brain, in plain language
• Clinical words in plain language: 12 terms clients hear in therapy, explained in everyday Spanish
• The 4F model (lucha, huida, congelamiento, complacencia: fight, flight, freeze, fawn)
• Window of tolerance handout, and a worksheet for recognizing your own zones with a sample completed version
• Six grounding skills, including 5-4-3-2-1
• Grounding by intensity: the 5-level grounding ladder, with skills to try at each level
• Self-soothing inventory by sense
• Three breathing techniques, polyvagal-informed calming exercises, and the butterfly hug (el abrazo de la mariposa)
• My regulation toolkit: a personal plan for each zone
• Trigger map and trigger log with a sample completed entry
• Plan for hard days, with an "if I am in danger" box
• After a flashback: five steps back to the present
• Sleep and trauma; triggers vs. distress vs. retraumatization; healing is not linear
• ICD-10-CM codes for trauma-related diagnoses, with the Spanish DSM-5 diagnosis names
• When to seek a higher level of care
• Therapist quick reference and six therapist scripts, in Spanish
• Crisis resources with the Spanish-language route for each line where one exists (988 press 2 or text AYUDA, Crisis Text Line AYUDA to 741741, the National Domestic Violence Hotline's Spanish site, RAINN in Spanish, and more), checked October 2026
• A note about hope (closing page for clients to keep)

Who it is for

• Therapists, counselors, and psychologists with Spanish-speaking clients, whether you are bilingual or work with an interpreter (the therapist pages are in Spanish; the English edition covers the same material in English)
• Clinics and agencies serving Spanish-speaking families
• Supervisors and trainees in Spanish-language placements

Handouts support therapy; they do not replace it. An English edition is also available in the shop.

More about these handouts

28 pages in Spanish, 25 sections: how trauma affects the body and brain, clinical words explained in everyday Spanish, the 4F responses, the window of tolerance, grounding matched to intensity with a 5-level ladder, a personal regulation toolkit, a trigger map and trigger log, a plan for hard days, and crisis resources with Spanish-language options.

About the Spanish

• Neutral Spanish for clients in the United States, in plain language and the formal "usted"
• Diagnosis names follow the Spanish edition of the DSM-5; codes are the US ICD-10-CM codes
• Clinical terms follow published Spanish usage (for example, "ventana de tolerancia", "técnicas de enraizado", "abrazo de la mariposa")

Format

• Fillable PDF in Spanish, US Letter (28 pages): type into the worksheets on screen, or print and write by hand
• Fillable PDF in Spanish, A4 edition with the same content
• Editable Microsoft Word file (.docx) in Spanish with the same content and a header for your practice name and logo
• Works on Mac, Windows, and iPad
• Lifetime access, unlimited prints for your own clients, free updates

Digital download. No physical product ships. Reach out through the store contact page if anything does not work or if you have questions.