The Brain Science of Children’s Emotions (Transforming Tears and Tantrums using Hand in Hand Parenting)

Karen Wolfe, LMFT

Training Description

This training will teach those who support system involved youth a framework to understand the neurobiological basis for difficult behavior in children and 3 specific strategies to use with their youth to teach their caregivers in order to support the psychological and emotional wellbeing of system involved youth who have a history of trauma and attachment injuries.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will acquire a framework to understand how difficult behavior in children is driven by the brain’s limbic system, and why this is particularly relevant to system involved youth who live in out of home care.

· Participants will identify 3 specific strategies for the provision of attachment-based and trauma-informed support to system involved youth.