Southwest Iowa Drug Endangered Children's Conference
Thu, Mar 07
|New Horizon Presbyterian Church
Addressing the Needs of Children and Teens with A History of Prenatal or Postnatal Trauma Featuring: Ira J Chasnoff, MD and Christine Schmidt, PsyD
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2024, 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
New Horizon Presbyterian Church, 30 Valley View Dr, Council Bluffs, IA 51503, USA
About the event
In the past two decades, the number of children born into families affected by substance abuse has grown exponentially. These children and teens often suffer from both prenatal and postnatal trauma through prenatal exposure to licit and illicit substances and lack of positive early childhood attachment relationships. They likely are disrupting classrooms, filling the child welfare system, and challenging the health care system with behavioral difficulties that defy classic treatment approaches. This program will discuss the neurobiology of prenatal and postnatal trauma, describe the behavioral dysregulation that results, and present strategies that can support appropriate behavior and learning at home and in the classroom.
At the completion of this session, the participant will be able to:
Discuss the neurobiology of prenatal trauma on development, behavior, and learning across the lifespan.
Discuss the neurobiology of postnatal trauma on development, behavior, and learning across the lifespan.
Describe an overall strategy for developing…