Understanding Trauma’s Developmental impact from Pre-school to Early Adolescence

Live Online Workshop

Pre-school Unit: Tuesday, January 21 and Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Elementary School/Early Adolescent Unit: Tuesday, February 4 and Tuesday, February 11, 2025
1:00-5:00pm ET (all sessions)

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for up to 16 CE contact hours (8 hours for each unit)

The developmental impact of early onset trauma represents a major problem that is often unrecognized. Two workshops in this series will focus on recognizing trauma’s presence and impact in: 1) preschool children and, 2) middle school and early adolescent children. Their repeated exposure to overwhelming traumatic events beginning early in life that cannot be emotionally or cognitively processed causes both extensive symptomatic distress and simultaneous developmental disruption.

Recognition of trauma’s presence is often obscured due to the multiple and overlapping symptoms it generates which often mimic other disorders. This makes for the detection of trauma difficult, and complicates diagnoses and treatment. Most importantly, it also obscures the awareness of its impact on development.

The course’s two-part units address complex trauma’s multiple manifestations and the various long-term social, physical, and psychological problems associated with untreated trauma. Problem based learning (PBL), the sole method used to process the cases, is highly interactive and engaging in contrast to a lecture approach.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able:

1. Recognize trauma’s increased presence amongst marginalized groups (Black, Hispanic, Immigrant families and in poor, stigmatized families (Irish/German)
2. Distinguish how the intensity of symptomatic distress may vary by class, race and gender and religion
3. Differentiate how trauma’s high symptomatic distress mimics many other disorders
4. Recognize that trauma’s long-term impact on major domains of on-going development may vary by race, poverty, gender and religion and implicit bias from systems around the family (i.e. police, child welfare; school personnel and immigration services)
5. Distinguish the different manifestations of trauma’s impact on various developmental domains (i.e., Attachment and Affect regulation and Social relationships, etc.) during pre-school, middle childhood and early adolescence

Robert Abramovitz, MD

Dr. Robert Abramovitz devotes his child trauma active learning approach to making trauma knowledge accessible to a wide variety of audiences. Dr. Abramovitz is now a Senior Consultant to the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute, which he founded and lead for 10 years. He is a Yale Child Study Center (YCSC), trained Child Psychiatrist and Child Trauma Specialist. Following his training, he was a YCSC Assistant and Associate Professor. He focuses his work on the developmental impact of violence, poverty and racism on individuals, organizations and communities and the development of services and training designed to counteract their impact. He created and taught an intensive year-long Child Trauma Specialization course using the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s (NCTSN) Core Curriculum on Child Trauma (CCCT) as the basis for a 2nd year course for Silberman School of Social Work Social Work students. As a participant in the development of the CCCT, he became a senior CCCT trainer, teaching Social Workers, Child Psychologists and Child Psychiatrists how to use Problem Based Learning (PBL) to facilitate the development of Clinical Reasoning and Case Formulation skills.

Unit 1 - Pre-school Unit:

• General Admission: $150
• 10% discount available for NYU Practicum Instructors/Educational Coordinators and NYU Silver Alumni  

Unit 2 - Elementary School/Early Adolescent Unit:

• General Admission: $150
• 10% discount available for NYU Practicum Instructors/Educational Coordinators and NYU Silver Alumni 

Both Units:

• General Admission: $275
• 10% discount available for NYU Practicum Instructors/Educational Coordinators and NYU Silver Alumni 

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

Unit 1 - Pre-school Unit:

• Refund requests made on or before January 14, 2025 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before January 18, 2025 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after January 19, 2025: no refund

Unit 2 - Elementary School/Early Adolescent Unit:

• Refund requests made on or before January 28, 2025 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before February 1, 2025 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after February 2, 2025: no refund

Both Units:

• Refund requests made on or before January 14, 2025 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before January 18, 2025 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after January 19, 2025: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 8 Continuing Education Contact Hours for each unit (16 total Continuing Education Contact Hours for both units).

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Note on Accessibility:
It is a priority to make our events inclusive and accessible. For any questions or to notify us of a request, please email silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu at least 72 hours before the event.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
285 Mercer Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
Fax: 212.995.4497