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3S1. Building Resilience in Students Using a Trauma-Informed Lens: Results of a Pilot Study

Presentation Type

Breakout Session (Electronic Copy Not Available)

Keywords

Psychic trauma in children; School children--Services for--Iowa;

Abstract

Approximately 25-66% percent of all children are likely to experience some type of significant adversity during their childhood. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can impact students’ lives in the short-term and have the potential to alter their developmental trajectories. Experiencing trauma has been correlated with lower academic performance, decreases in emotional regulation, higher school absences and increases in violence toward self and others. This presentation will focus on the results of a pilot study conducted in Iowa. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected at five elementary schools and three control schools during one academic year. As compared to the control schools, the schools receiving the We Can! intervention experienced significant increases in teachers’ understanding of students’ behavior from a trauma-informed lens, increased teacher self-efficacy for classroom intervention to promote resilience, and improvements in culture and climate (e.g., staff collegiality and worker satisfaction) throughout the school year. Implications will be discussed.

Start Date

7-11-2017 1:10 PM

End Date

7-11-2017 2:10 PM

Comments

Speakers: Dr. Carol Klose Smith, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Iowa; Dr. Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa; Janis Powers, Doctoral Student, University of Iowa

Type: Paper

Strand: Social-Emotional Learning

Location: State College Room, Maucker Union, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

Embargo Period

10-1-2017

Electronic copy is not available through UNI ScholarWorks.

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3S1. Building Resilience in Students Using a Trauma-Informed Lens: Results of a Pilot Study

Approximately 25-66% percent of all children are likely to experience some type of significant adversity during their childhood. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can impact students’ lives in the short-term and have the potential to alter their developmental trajectories. Experiencing trauma has been correlated with lower academic performance, decreases in emotional regulation, higher school absences and increases in violence toward self and others. This presentation will focus on the results of a pilot study conducted in Iowa. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected at five elementary schools and three control schools during one academic year. As compared to the control schools, the schools receiving the We Can! intervention experienced significant increases in teachers’ understanding of students’ behavior from a trauma-informed lens, increased teacher self-efficacy for classroom intervention to promote resilience, and improvements in culture and climate (e.g., staff collegiality and worker satisfaction) throughout the school year. Implications will be discussed.