When behavior speaks: Responding to children who have endured trauma


When: 3/31/2026 11:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Where: Virtual Meeting - Join Meeting
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  • Participants will identify common sensory, environmental, and relational triggers that can cause a trauma-impacted child to lose their sense of safety.
  • Participants will be able to shift their perspective from viewing behaviors as "willful disobedience" to seeing them as adaptive survival strategies and expressions of unmet needs.
  • Participants will be able to explain the difference between punitive measures (which can re-traumatize) and trauma-informed discipline (which focuses on teaching and safety).

Presentations and Speakers
When Behavior Speaks: Responding to Children Who Have Endured Trauma
  • Jyotsna Panthee, PsyD

Available Credits/Points
  • This session is approved for 1 Continuing Education credit for Social Work License. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • The Children's Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) NCPD (ANCC Contact Hours). Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • Children's Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) Certificate of Attendance. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • This session meets Texas Administrative Code requirements for 1 continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage and Family therapy, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers.

Accreditation Statement
  • Children's Health System of Texas is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.