Connecting Neural Pathways for Healing

This session will introduce professionals and parents to practical strategies informed by the expanding body of research on the neural impact of trauma on children’s developing brains. The interventions explored are currently implemented across several sites and multiple states, and focus on increasing placement stability, reducing the need for psychiatric hospitalizations and residential treatment placements, increasing the child’s ability to regulate emotions, and improving activities of daily living. Participants will gain tools to effectively respond to the emotional and behavioral challenges of children with trauma histories, both in their caseloads and families, and will learn to adapt these strategies for success across school, home, and community environments.

Presenter: Lori Ross

Course length: 60 minutes

After attending this session, parents and professionals will be able to…
• Apply the concepts presented to emotional and behavioral challenges children are facing in their client caseload and/or their own family situation.
• Demonstrate the capacity for identifying new ways to respond to emotional and behavioral challenges and increase their own emotional regulation around these behaviors.
• Generalize the strategies presented to adjust for different venues/locations in order to better set up their child/client for success in school, home or the community.
• Modify their approach to analyzing the meanings behind children’s behaviors and begin to identify the difference between a behavioral choice and a behavioral reaction to a stimulus.

Course level: Intermediate
Certificate type: This course offers a Social Work CE certificate
Credit Type: General CE

Cost to register: $15
If you are a NCFA member, look for your discount code in the membership portal.