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Traumatized Child is a Course

Traumatized Child

Time limit: 60 days

$195 Enroll

Full course description

This online course is designed to help classroom teachers, school counselors, and other educational personnel gain strategies to reach and teach students who have been affected by stress, trauma, and/or violence. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of stress and trauma and explore how stress, violence, and trauma affect a student's learning, cognitive brain development, and social-emotional development. The short- and long-term consequences of being exposed to stress, trauma, or violence, as well as the social and family causes, will be reviewed. The dynamics of domestic violence and community violence are also discussed, as is the educator's role in the intervention and prevention of violence.

30 Illinois Professional Development Hours approved for this course.

2 Graduate Credit Hours are available from Aurora University for an additional $200.00