[This is a National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC) course.]

This theme helps participants learn how chaos, threat, neglect, and other adversity during development can alter the developing brain and that, in turn, can change the ways children think, feel and act. Participants will understand the major stress-responses we use to cope with perceived and actual threat and the reasons for and range of adaptive symptoms, from inattention and distractibility to avoidance and shut-down. Also covered are the reasons for rejection and testing and recognition of the survival skills and coping strategies that result in a complex range of behaviors.

Course length: 90 minutes
Certificate: This course offers an attendance certificate only.

PLEASE NOTE - This course does not provide continuing education credits.