Course Description
Continuing Education Hours: 20
This certification course is comprised of the Arizona Trauma Institute 2020 Prenatal Exposure Conference and the Prenatal Trauma: Raising Children Who Have Been Exposed to Substances In-Utero training. The Conference is designed to introduce and enhance the clinical care professional’s understanding and comprehension of the impact of in-utero exposure to substances, trauma, and toxic stress on neurodevelopment, sensory needs, and attachment with children. You will recognize behaviors, emotions, and thinking that are a result of prenatal exposure and understand how to approach these biological challenges in the most effective and reliable ways. Completing this conference will arm you with ways to help children who have been exposed in-utero through a well-being and whole person approach that considers sensory integration, understanding behavior, and ways to effectively discipline, and needs unique to these children. The following Prenatal Trauma: Raising Children who Have Been Exposed to Substances In-Utero training is designed to help participants develop a better understanding and comprehension of the impact of in-utero substance exposure on neurodevelopment, sensory needs, and attachment with children. Learn ways to help children who have been exposed in-utero through caring for their whole needs, such as sensory integration, understanding behavior and ways to effectively discipline, and needs unique to these children.
Learning Objectives
- Comparative look at impact of marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, and methamphetamine in-utero exposure
- Understanding the impact of in-utero exposure has on self-regulation
- Review neuro-deficits on children exposed in-utero
- Review sensory integration needs of children exposed in-utero
- Review behavioral concerns associated with in-utero exposure
- Understanding the risk factors of children exposed to substances in-utero
- Understand cognitive challenges
- Building behavioral resilience
- Building self-regulation
- Interactive practice in working with/parenting children with in-utero substance exposure
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