Introduces core concepts for enhancing diversity-informed practice. This webinar presents vignettes to highlight how each core concept can be applied to child welfare practice.
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Discusses the implications of the changes in the DSM-5 as they relate to young children.
Discusses the effects physical abuse, neglect, and domestic violence have on young children.
Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
Addresses the importance of understanding the special developmental needs of young traumatized children.
Discusses the scope of polyvictimization in young children. This webinar describes its impact in early learning programs and emerging intervention practices with emphasis on work underway in Alaska and Washington State.
Discusses ways mental health providers can work with pediatric medical providers to ensure traumatized children receive care.
Discusses how mental health professionals can work with child protective services workers to provide trauma-informed care to infants and toddlers who come to their attention because of abuse or neglect.
Addresses the important role visitation plays for young foster children and their caregivers.
Discusses how providers have worked with branches of our country's military to promote the well being of young children in military families.