Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma & Violence on Student Learning
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Course Description
Units: 3
Price: $450
EDUC 4058. This course is designed to help classroom teachers, school counselors and other educational personnel gain strategies to reach and teach students who have been affected by stress, trauma and/or violence. You will learn the signs and symptoms of stress and trauma. Explore how stress, violence and trauma affect a student's learning, cognitive brain development and social-emotional development. The short- and long-term consequences of being exposed to stress, trauma or violence, as well as the social and family causes, will be reviewed. Participants will learn the dynamics of domestic violence and community violence. The educator's role in the intervention and prevention of violence will be discussed.
* Fees are subject to change
