Carol Westby – Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Interventions for the Caregiver & Child

Carol Westby – Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Interventions for the Caregiver & Child

Description:

Many children receiving rehabilitation and special education services have experienced multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that may not be recognized or addressed by service providers. In this session, you will learn: the biological/neurological effects of trauma; the effects of ACEs on children’s cognitive, language and social-emotional development; caregiver-child interventions to promote attunement and affect management; and child intervention strategies to promote resiliency and facilitate developmental skills for self-regulation. You will learn a framework that requires an integration of cognition/language and temperament/sensory/regulation factors. Interventions combine a mindfulness/mindsight approach for both caregivers and children.

ACEs and Development

• Types of ACEs
• Biological/neurological effects
• How attachment mediates trauma
• Autobiographical memory
• Narratives in parents & children who have experienced ACEs
• Framework for intervention

Interventions that Promote Attunement/Affect Management

• Goals for caregiver intervention
• Recognizing temperaments
• How children respond to danger
• Using mindfulness and mindsight in responding to children’s behaviors

Promote Resiliency for Personal Narratives and Self-Regulation

• Aspects of self-identity to develop
• Childhood competencies to development
• Characteristics of reminiscing
• How to reminisce
• Develop child’s emotional understanding: emotion coaching, reading body cues, recognizing emotions in stories

FITNESS – HEALTH – MEDICAL Course

More information about Medical:

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture.

For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).

While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice.

The knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.