WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
Childhood trauma significantly impacts brain development, often leading to lasting changes in neurobiology that affect cognitive, language, and social-emotional functioning. This webinar will delve into the neurobiological underpinnings of trauma and its effects on key developmental areas: language, autobiographical memory, and self-regulation. We explored how trauma disrupts the brain’s capacity to process and communicate experiences, affecting children's language development and their ability to construct coherent life stories. We will also examine how trauma hinders self-regulation, leading to challenges in managing emotions and behaviors.
The session will highlight intervention strategies directed at parents and children to facilitate children’s communication and self-regulation. Attendees will gain insight into therapeutic approaches that support narrative expression, empower emotional regulation, and build safe, supportive environments for children affected by trauma. This webinar is ideal for educators, speech-language pathologists, mental health professionals, and caregivers seeking to deepen their understanding of trauma-informed care and its role in promoting healing and development in children.
Carol Westby, Ph.D
Carol Westby, Ph.D., has published and presented nationally and internationally on play, theory of mind, language-literacy relationships, ADHD, narrative/expository development and facilitation, screen time, children and families who have experienced trauma, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/linguistically diverse populations She, has received the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the Award for Contributions to Multicultural Affairs, and is Board Certified in Child Language and Language Disorders. Dr. Westby has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Geneva College and the University of Iowa’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology.
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members | |
| $0.00 Behavioral Health Clinicians funded through the Division of Behavioral Health |
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
Please join us to explore this crucial topic with Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D. The toddler years are a distinct and foundational stage of human development. Vast amounts of growth take place emotionally, socially and cognitively as toddlers move out into the world and develop their sense of self. Separation and need for a secure base underlie development as toddlers slowly gain independence and experience a myriad of emotions. This process unfolds in the context of relationships with primary caregivers and other adults, as well as entering the world of peers and learning about others. The webinar will cover all areas of development with a focus on the interconnectedness of developmental areas, including parent-child relationships, emotional understanding, play, and brain development.
This webinar is for all of those working in the perinatal period as well as children
birth to 5 and their families.
Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D
Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D. was Director of the Barnard Center for Toddler Development & Psychology Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University for three decades. She is author of National Bestseller How Toddlers Thrive: What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2-5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success and USA Today Bestseller, Raising Resilience: How to Help Our Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty. Her books are translated into 11 languages.
Klein is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a doctorate in clinical and developmental psychology from Duke University. In her roles as a researcher and professor and in direct care with parents and children for over thirty years, Klein has helped define what every child needs to thrive, regardless of their life situation.
OBJECTIVES:
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members | |
| $0.00 Behavioral Health Clinicians funded through the Division of Behavioral Health |
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
In this webinar, participants will learn about research linking the neuroscience of addiction and trauma to parenting struggles and developmental risks in families affected by parental substance use. The implications for parenting interventions that target parental mentalizing capacity and child attachment security will be reviewed.
The session will highlight intervention strategies directed at parents and children to facilitate children’s communication and self-regulation. Attendees will gain insight into therapeutic approaches that support narrative expression, empower emotional regulation, and build safe, supportive environments for children affected by trauma. This webinar is ideal for educators, speech-language pathologists, mental health professionals, and caregivers seeking to deepen their understanding of trauma-informed care and its role in promoting healing and development in children.
Amanda Lowell, Ph.D
Dr.Lowell is an Associate Research Scientist and licensed psychologist at the Yale Child
Study Center. She specializes in the treatment and research of mothers with substance
use disorders (SUDs) and their young children. Specifically, Dr. Lowell's program of
translational research utilizes an infant mental health framework to study the impact of
addiction, adversity, and attachment on maternal neural and behavioral responses to
infant cues, and the implementation of evidence-based parenting interventions for
mothers with addictions. Dr. Lowell is the Director of Training for Mothering from the
Inside Out, an evidence-based parenting intervention designed specifically for mothers
in recovery from SUDs.
OBJECTIVES:
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members | |
| $0.00 Behavioral Health Clinicians funded through the Division of Behavioral Health |
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