6-Hour Module: Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience and Heal from Trauma through Play: A Practical Guide for Early Childhood Educators (Ages 4-8) (A73)

For children who experience trauma, play is a powerful tool that provides them with a context to transform the experiences that are overwhelming, frightening, and unimaginable into manageable and predictable events that they have control over. In this training, we go deeper in understanding the intersection of trauma and play and how to support children to have a voice and pathways to heal.

Many children express their thoughts and feelings more fully and directly through play than they are able to do verbally because young children’s emotions are often inaccessible to them at a verbal level. For children who experience trauma, play is a powerful tool that provides them with a context to transform the experiences that are overwhelming, frightening, and unimaginable into manageable and predictable events that they have control over. Specifically for early childhood providers, this training will help them learn what to do when they observe trauma being expressed in a classroom through a child’s play.

6 Hours Professional Development Certificate Issued Upon Completion

Part 1 Video 53 minutes Plus Activity = 1 Hour Total

Part 2 Video 40 minutes Plus Activity = 1 Hour Total

Part 3 Video 40 minutes Plus Activity = 1 Hour Total

Part 4 Video 2 Vignettes 25 minutes Plus Activity = 45 Minutes Total

Part 5 Video 2 Vignettes 22 minutes Plus Activity = 45 Minutes Total

Part 6 Video 2 Vignettes 25 minutes Plus Activity = 45 Minutes Total

Part 7 Video 2 Vignettes 30 Plus Activity = 45 Minutes Total