Using Sensory Strategies with System-Involved Youth to Prevent and De-escalate Explosive Behavior

Dr. Laura S. Anderson

Training Description

For those that support youth in the foster care system, we learn a lot about the impacts of trauma on children and teens. The field is continuing to understand more about the overlap between developmental trauma and the sensory processing system. As an adoptive parent myself, understanding the sensory system and its influence on behavior and emotions changed my family’s life and the work I do with foster and adoptive families. This training will provide information about how the sensory system impacts behavior, and explosive externalized behavior, in particular. We will explore ways to apply the understanding of the sensory system in the prevention of dysregulated behavior, as well as in the de-escalation, if outbursts occur. Participants will leave with greater theoretical understanding and tangible strategies which can be applied within current efforts to support system-involved youth.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to: