Intro to Becoming a Trauma Informed Educator

Course Overview

Designed for the classroom based or connected practitioner this course will explore types of childhood, generational and cultural trauma and its effects on the development and behavior of children, adolescents and young adults, which in turn affect the learning environments. This course focuses on understanding the ways that experiencing trauma during childhood alters the typical developmental progress of childhood in ways that impact their learning and often the learning environment. The practitioner will be introduced to how trauma affects brain development, how childhood trauma affects a person physiologically, and how behaviors often attributed to psychological disorders are directly correlated to the person’s experience of trauma during the developmental milestone years of childhood. Theories of neuroplasticity and sequential development and their application to childhood trauma will be explored.

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