Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma & Violence on Student Learning

  • Continuing Education Certificate #CEC114
  • 3 Continuing Education Credits

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. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of stress and trauma. Participants will 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. Meets MEd Standard 1.


Credit hours: 2.0

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Last updated: 07/06/2021