Loving Them is Not Enough: What Every Parent Should Know
What you'll learn
- This is a course designed specifically for the care of children who have experienced adversity and trauma.
Requirements
- This is a discussion of the elements of trauma informed care and supporting materials on the nature of how trauma/adversity can impact life and health throughout the lifespan.
Description
Presenter: Crystal Krueger, LMFT, CCTS-F
Families with adoptive and foster children sometimes struggle to understand and support the children because these children react differently than biological children and the problem behaviors they exhibit do not fit the experience of the fostering or adopting parents. Many children that desperately need to experience safety, connection, and strong cohesive relationships struggle with behaviors that make those things difficult to achieve. Many have experienced significant trauma prior to their current foster placement that has created adaptive behaviors that were protective in nature in the child’s past but that are now seen as intentionally provocative and willful behaviors.
This training will help participants understand why many of these children may view and react to people and events in ways that may seem unusual, exaggerated, or irrational. Recent advances in developmental science are revealing how significant adversity in childhood alters both the way the genome is expressed and the developing brain is wired and this training is designed to help the participant not only understand the function of the problematic behaviors, but how to begin helping the child and the parents achieve the connection that will help the child heal.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define and recognize the various causes of trauma
2. Explain the basic neurobiology of trauma
3. Identify the Levels of Safety
4. Understand the function of problematic behaviors
5. Identify Negative Belief Systems and ways to increase attachment and connection
6. Establish key resiliency factors
7. Differentiate toxic environment types
8. Recognize the link between environment, interactions, and stress
9. Identify the Neurosequential model and various connecting strategies
10. Implement connecting strategies to manage behavior
This course is not available for NBCC credit.
Who this course is for:
- Mental health, teachers, probation, courts, child-protective agencies, foster parents, clergy
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Course content
- 00:41Welcome
- 00:37Module I. Introduction
- Preview47:56
- 10 questionsModule I. Introduction
- 00:37Module 2. Understanding Behavior
- Preview37:47
- 10 questionsModule 2. Understanding Behavior
- 00:40Module 3. Environments
- 48:38Module 3. Environments
- 10 questionsModule 3. Environments
- 00:30Module 4. Forming Attachments
- 42:04Module 4. Forming Attachments
- 10 questionsModule 4. Forming Attachments
- 00:40Module 5. Managing Behavior
- 47:40Module 5. Managing Behavior
- 10 questionsModule 5. Managing Behavior
- 00:59Congratulations on the successful completion of the training!
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 3,377 Reviews
- 22,637 Students
- 20 Courses
Dr. Robert Rhoton, CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute and President at the Trauma Institute International possesses a rich history of experience in the mental health field. Dr. Rhoton has supervised multiple outpatient clinics, juvenile justice programs, and intensive outpatient substance abuse programs for adolescents, day treatment programs for youth and children, adult offender programs and child and family therapeutic services. Additionally, Dr. Rhoton has advanced training in child and adolescent trauma treatment, family therapy, and family trauma. Dr. Rhoton served as president of the Arizona Trauma Therapy Network from 2010 through 2012. Dr. Rhoton was a Professor at Ottawa University in the Behavioral Sciences and Counseling Department whose primary interests were training counselors to work with traumagenic family dynamics, child and family trauma, and non-egoic models of treatment. Dr. Rhoton is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and collaborates and consults with numerous Arizona agencies fine tuning their understanding of trauma and the impact of developmental trauma on the individual and family. Dr. Rhoton has served on the Arizona Department of Health Services Trauma Informed Care (TIC) task force, currently is on a SAMHSA Technical Assistance committee working with trauma and education. Dr. Rhoton also works with Arizona State Epidemiologists around the identifying of concrete markers and the predictive nature of public health impact of early developmental trauma on Arizona children.
Dr. Rhoton's most recent publication can be found in the July 2017 Journal of Counseling and Development titled; Trauma Competency: An Active Ingredients Approach to Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.