22TRA574 Trauma & Children: Teaching & Classroom Strategies to Support & Empower

 Support Healing & Build Resilience in Children with Trauma

Teachers need accurate guidance on helping children and families who have been exposed to trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Trauma can be caused in many different ways.

 Relational trauma is often the result of a parent or care-giver’s own untreated relational trauma and occurs when there is consistent disruption of a child’s sense of security and love within the family. It is often caused by a sense of abandonment or enmeshment, where unhealthy emotional relationships are created which will affect a child's development and learning.

 This great instructional video course is designed to enhance your understanding of the impact of childhood adversity, trauma and toxic stress and provides an invaluable insight into why children who have or continue to suffer trauma, behave the way they do.

 By simplifying and condensing the complex world of childhood trauma into tangible, easy to grasp terms, this course will equip you with a number of trauma-informed classroom strategies and approaches with which to respond to the consequential complex needs of trauma-impacted children and adolescents.

What you will learn:

• What trauma & adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are
• Common classroom signs & behaviours exhibited by children that have experienced trauma or ACE's
• How to respond and support a child
• How to create a supportive and empowering environment for a child
• How to maximise your childs learning & support socio-emotional development.
• How to protect children from further adverse experiences

Course duration: Circa 60 mins+ (video lesson content). Additional needed for learning exercises and review.

Instructor: Lucy Mannion

Lucy is an experienced school leader specialising in trauma-responsive practice. She currently works as a School Development Partner for a group of therapeutic schools across London. A qualified teacher with two postgraduate degrees in psychology, she has spent her career seeking to understand the causes of challenging or antisocial behaviour and how this creates barriers to learning. Most of her experience has involved working with very complex and vulnerable children and young people who have suffered a variety of adverse childhood experiences.