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 system involved youth and 3 specific strategies to use with their child clients which can be taught to these clients’ caregivers in order to support the psychological and emotional wellbeing of system involved youth who have a history of trauma and attachment injuries.

Learning Objective

• 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 system involved youth in out of home care.

• Participants will learn 3 specific strategies to use to provide attachment-based and trauma informed treatments with system involved youth.