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 clinicians a framework to understand the neurobiological basis for difficult behavior in children and 3 specific strategies to use with their child clients and teach to these clients’ caregivers inorder to support the psychological and emotional well-being of children who have a history of trauma and attachment injuries.   Learning Objectives

• Participants will learn the neurobiology of big emotions in children and a framework to understand how difficult behavior in children is driven by the brain’s limbic system, and why this is particularly relevant to children who live in out of home care

• Participants will learn 3 specific strategies to use to provide aMachment-based and trauma informed treatments to their clients

• Participants will be able to explain the ways the emotional brain works and how that impacts a child’s behavior and identify at least one game caregivers can play to help children…