Outline

School functioning and classroom instruction are affected by trauma.

• How the traumatic experiences of students manifest in school settings
• Academics & cognitive skills
• Behavioral functioning
• Social emotional functioning
• Developmental differences in response to trauma
• Impact of trauma on the following disorders:
  • ODD
  • ADHD
  • Emotional Dysregulation
  • Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• Childhood trauma and a framework for intervention
  • Attachment
  • Self-regulation
  • Competency

STRATEGIES, TECHNIQUES, INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS TEACHERS.

There are interventions to reduce disruptive behavior.

• Turning rage and helplessness into constructive action
• Effectively confront loss and grief
• Proactively utilize mindfulness
• Address anger regulation and expression
• Teach students how to relax, reframe and cope

There are strategies to increase motivation, engagement and academic success.

• Promote grit tenacity and perseverance
• Turn moral disengagement into moral engagement
• Create opportunities for meaningful connection and affiliation
• Establish brain-based interventions
• Utilize effective praise as a motivator
• Manage YOUR frustration
• Move from reactive to proactive

Skills and Competencies can be used to help the student.

• Engage thinking to mitigate emotional reactivity
• Increase access and use of executive functioning skills
• Making and keeping commitments
• Integrate stress reduction into the daily schedule
• Embed executive functioning strategies into the daily routine
• Expand the range of competencies

There are techniques to create trauma-sensitive schools.

• Flexible Framework: a systematic overview that identifies, integrates and ensures compliance
• Systems to create safe, supportive schools for students impacted by traumatic experiences