Understanding Trauma’s Developmental impact from Preschool 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)

These two workshops will help social workers better recognize the presence and effect of early onset trauma exposure and its impact on children’s ongoing development, especially children from marginalized communities. Trauma’s impact on ongoing development (attachment, emotional regulation) is often missed, obscured by the multiple overlapping symptoms it produces that mimic other disorders such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ADHD and Conduct Disorder. The difficultly in accurately detecting the impact of early onset trauma on immediate and long-term development risks complicating diagnosis and limits treatment. To avoid the resulting symptomatic distress and simultaneous developmental disruption, social workers can and should help children emotionally or cognitively process earlier and often repeated exposures to overwhelming traumatic events.  

The two-part series addresses trauma’s multiple manifestations and various long-term social, physical, and psychological developmental problems associated with untreated trauma. One workshop focuses on recognizing the presence and impact of early onset trauma among  preschool children. The second workshop focus on middle school and early adolescent children.  This highly interactive and engaging workshop uses detailed case studies of children with a focus on marginalized groups.  It uses Problem Based Learning (PBL) to help social workers advance their clinical reasoning and case formulation skills.

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

1. Recognize how and why the impact of trauma exposure may mimic other disorders and lead to misdiagnosis and limited treatment
2. 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
3. Recognize that trauma’s intensity and long-term impact on going development may vary by race, poverty, gender, religion as well the implicit bias embedded in systems which families interact (i.e., police; child welfare; school personnel and immigration services)
4. Enhance clinical reasoning and case formulation skills

Robert Abramovitz, MD

Robert Abramovitz, MD, a child psychiatrist/child trauma specialist who trained in Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center focuses on the impact of violence, poverty, and racism on individuals, communities, and organizations. Formerly an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Abramovitz is currently the senior consultant to the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute (NCTWI) which he founded and lead for 10 years. Dr. Abramovitz advanced his trauma expertise as Chief Psychiatrist at New York City’s Jewish Board of Family and Children Services, and as Visiting Lecturer at Hunter Colleges Silberman School of Social Work, and as a senior trainer for and developer of the Core Curriculum on Child Trauma (CCCT) prepared by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Using Problem Based Learning method (PBL), Dr. Abramovitz has trained scores of social workers, child psychologists, and child psychiatrists to fine tune their 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