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This training explores the complex relationship between childhood trauma and mental health diagnoses, particularly for children impacted by foster care, adoption, and other adverse experiences. Participants will examine why mental health diagnoses can be both necessary and helpful—and why they can also feel confusing, incomplete, or limiting when the impact of trauma is not fully understood.
This course offers practical insight into a both/and approach to mental health treatment—using medication and therapy as supportive tools alongside healthy family rhythms, attachment-focused care, and reframing behavior through a trauma-responsive lens.
Participants will leave equipped to collaborate effectively with mental health professionals and advocate for approaches that promote not only behavior change, but long-term healing and development.
Objectives
Understand the purpose and limitations of mental health diagnoses, particularly for children with a history of trauma, and recognize diagnoses as starting points rather than fixed outcomes
Identify how trauma can overlap with or complicate common mental health diagnoses, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, RAD, and ODD
Recognize the role of medication, supplements, and therapy as supportive tools, understanding how they can increase a child’s capacity for regulation, learning, and relational growth
Evaluate treatment approaches through a trauma-responsive lens, balancing clinical interventions with attachment-focused care, healthy family rhythms, and everyday childhood experiences
Strengthen confidence in collaboration and advocacy, equipping participants to work effectively with clinicians and systems in ways that support long-term healing and development
Details:
Tuesday, February 24th 12:00-1:30
Crossroads Bible Church
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Questions? Email [email protected]
Please note: This registration is for the in-person event.
Can’t join us in person? The training will be live-streamed — email [email protected] for the link!
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Event Venue
800 Scribner Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504-4424, United States
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