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Alaska Association For Infant And Early Childhood Mental Health

AK-AIMH Member Registration

Non-member Registration

LXCL:These seats are reserved for clincians working in DBH funded community health centers

Behavioral Health Clinicians

&nbsp;❄️Presentation Title: Telling Kids the Truth About Trauma Description:Parents and caregivers often avoid difficult truths, believing they&#39;re protecting their child-yet this avoidance leaves children confused, lonely, and disconnected from their own stories. This session will give you the tools to help families break through the silence, speak the unspeakable with sensitivity, and build narratives that restore safety and connection.&nbsp; Learning Objectives:■ Support caregivers in moving past avoidance to create developmentally sensitive narratives that heal rather than harm ■ Transform posttraumatic play into pathways for truth-telling and coherence ■ Use attachment-grounded explanations to strengthen caregiver-child connection Presenter: Paris Goodyear-Brown, &nbsp;PhD, LCSW, RPT-S&trade;Paris Goodyear-Brown,is the creator of the TraumaPlay&trade; model, the founder and Clinical Director of <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="http://www.nurturehouse.org/" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Nurture House</a>, and the Executive Director of the <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.traumaplayinstitute.com/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">TraumaPlay&trade;</a> Institute. She is an internationally renowned speaker, a prolific author , and a master clinician. While she has spent the past 25 years specializing in treating trauma (sexual abuse, physical abuse, maltreatment and neglect) and attachment disturbances, as well as anxiety disorders, she often provides help for angry, dysregulated and depressed children and teens. She is an Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatric Mental Health at Vanderbilt University, guest lecturer for several universities in middle Tennessee, and travels around the world helping clinicians, parents, and teachers better serve children from hard places.

❄️Presentation Title: Telling Kids the Truth About Trauma Description:Parents and caregivers often avoid difficult truths, believing they're protecting their child-yet this avoidance leaves children confused, lonely, and disconnected from their own stories. This session will give you the tools to help families break through the silence, speak the unspeakable with sensitivity, and build narratives that restore safety and connection.  Learning Objectives:■ Support caregivers in moving past avoidance to create developmentally sensitive narratives that heal rather than harm ■ Transform posttraumatic play into pathways for truth-telling and coherence ■ Use attachment-grounded explanations to strengthen caregiver-child connection Presenter: Paris Goodyear-Brown,  PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™Paris Goodyear-Brown,is the creator of the TraumaPlay™ model, the founder and Clinical Director of <a href="http://www.nurturehouse.org/" target="_blank">Nurture House</a>, and the Executive Director of the <a href="https://www.traumaplayinstitute.com/" target="_blank">TraumaPlay™</a> Institute. She is an internationally renowned speaker, a prolific author , and a master clinician. While she has spent the past 25 years specializing in treating trauma (sexual abuse, physical abuse, maltreatment and neglect) and attachment disturbances, as well as anxiety disorders, she often provides help for angry, dysregulated and depressed children and teens. She is an Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatric Mental Health at Vanderbilt University, guest lecturer for several universities in middle Tennessee, and travels around the world helping clinicians, parents, and teachers better serve children from hard places.

Alaska Association For Infant And Early Childhood Mental Health

AK-AIMH December Webinar

AK-AIMH Member Registration

$45

Non-member Registration

$60

Behavioral Health Clinicians

Free