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How Trauma Impacts Behavior

Self-paced

*RECORDED WEBINAR TRAINING (October 25, 2023)

Training provided by Gladys Noll Alvarez, LISW, IECMH-E, Trauma Informed Care Project Coordinator, Orchard Place Child Guidance Center.

This training will focus on the impact of trauma on brain development. It will cover how chronic stress/trauma can impact behaviors in all individuals, adults, and children/youth, possibly sending into survival mode.

Participants will be able to:

Identify the three types of stress
Recognize signs of individuals in survival mode of flight, fight, freeze.
Explain the importance of serve & return, temperament, state, and sensory thresholds on behaviors.

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