Effective Strategies for Children with Developmental Trauma
Earn 3 hours of in-service credit
We often underestimate the impact of early life experiences on a child’s development. Trauma can impact children’s ability to learn, social interactions and self-regulation skills. Toxic stress or trauma can involve events such as physical abuse and/or emotional abuse and neglect, divorce, bullying, domestic violence, car accidents and a death in the family. Emotional trauma occurs when an external threat overwhelms a person’s internal and external positive coping resources (SAMHSA).
Professionals who work with children, parents and foster parents can benefit from education about how trauma affects children in their care and how to create safe environments. This training will discuss how trauma impacts children, the Adverse Childhood Survey (ACE’s), how to create a safe environment, self-regulation tools and ways to avoid re-traumatizing practices. Specific tools and resources will be discussed to help professionals and parents begin the healing process for children.