Northwest Nazarene University: Traumatized Child

ED 550 Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma and Violence on Student Learning (2)

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. They 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. The software program is designed to be loaded onto the hard drive of your personal computer from a compact disk (CD).

Be sure to indicate if you want Pass/Fail or Graded course. Please list date you wish to complete under course dates. The anticipated ending date must be established at the time of registration and that is the date on which grades will be posted, even if the course is completed earlier.

Dates: Student decides beginning and ending date within a 6 month period.
Times: Various
Cost: $335.00
Location: Online
Instructor: Joan Halverstadt