Helping Them Heal: How Teachers Can Help Young Children Who Experience Trauma

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This is an invaluable resource that provides educators and caregivers with ideas and strategies to positively influence trauma and stress affected children. A young child's brain is uniquely sensitive to the effects of stress and trauma, which can have detrimental, long-term developmental impact. Helping Them Heal explains how trauma affects the developing brain, how those changes can manifest in the classroom, and what teachers and caregivers can do to help a stressed, abused, or neglected child. Author and professor of early childhood development, Karen Peterson, provides early childhood educators with answers, ideas, and specific classroom strategies to move trauma-affected children in positive directions. Early childhood educators will learn ways to help children build resilience, self-regulation, and self-competence using this sensitive, supportive, and practical guide.