To Speak or Not to Speak about Past Trauma: Shifting the Focus to the Present Impacts of Current Events and Assimilation on Immigrant Children

BRYCS Consultant, Goli Amin Bellinger, MSW, LCSW-C, focuses on how to assess and respond to a child’s current difficulties arising from assimilation and tragic events in news reports. An emphasis is placed on avoiding the experience of a toxic trauma story by completing it with stories of resiliency from the past and present. The webinar includes how to recognize stress induced reactions in children and what to recommend to both children and their parents to support adjustment and healing.