Understanding Girls: A Trauma Informed Perspective

Through this training participants will gain an understanding about how early attachment
experiences impact one's later expectations for safety in the world, trust in and protection from others, and self-worth. Participants will be introduced to research on how culture and parenting practices set the norms for how girls experience and express emotions. Participants will gain an understanding of risk and resiliency factors associated with vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and post-traumatic stress disorder. This training draws upon the information on the socio-cultural construction of the rules for girls and emotion to help participants understand the important and potentially lethal role of relational aggression in the lives of girls, as well as the relationship between relational aggression and physical violence. We will also focus on psychosexual development and sexuality.

Special instructions: Please refer to Training Memorandum (TM 17-047) for very important specifics related to the dates, begin and end time, parking, registration and travel.