Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Early Childhood - by Katie Statman-Weil & Rashelle Hibbard (Paperback)

About the Book

A look at the effect of trauma on learning domains for young children and how educators can be trauma responsive for the whole classroom.

Book Synopsis

Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Early Chilhood offers an overview of trauma and its impact on young children, as well as specific strategies and techniques educators and administrators can use to create classroom and school communities that improve the quality of care for this vulnerable population. Author Katie Statman-Weil has synthesized research-based information in an accessible way. Focusing on the four different domains of cognitive, language, physical, and social-emotional, the author use vignettes to explore how trauma can be expressed in the classroom and what teachers can do about it.

About the Author

Katie Statman-Weil has worked in the early childhood field for over ten years. She also holds two masters degrees: one in curriculum and instruction with a focus on early childhood education and another in social work. Further, Katie's clinical expertise is trauma-informed care. Katie has worked as a classroom teacher, a school social worker, and as the executive director of an inclusive nonprofit early childhood center in Portland, Oregon.