The Power of a Psychosocial Perspective

This information is important to everyone because "what is predictable is preventable" – Robert Anda.

"Prevention always costs less than intervention. Effective intervention cost at least $5,000 a year. This is why you're here. A psychosocial perspective helps us understand how we learn and what gets in the way. Our knowledge helps us recognize trauma and mitigate its impacts with evidence-based practices and compassion.

(Robb et al., 2011)

 

 

Helping to Learn

We want to help you take the most away from this training. Tell us what you already know that makes you less likely to learn?

From the CDC: What are adverse childhood experiences?

Risk of healthy development in toddlerhood and early: ACEs:

 

Reading opportunties

Understanding Child Trauma

Protective and Risk Factors Associated With Trauma

Prevent Child Abuse Georgia

 

 

Preventing ACEs

Strategy

 

Approach

Strengthen economic supports to families
  • Strengthening household financial security
  • Family-friendly work policies

 

Promote social norms that protect against violence and adversity
  • Public education campaigns
  • Legislative approaches to reduce corporal punishment
  • Bystander approaches
  • Men and boys as allies in prevention

 

Ensure a strong start for children
  • Early childhood home visitation
  • High-quality child care
  • Preschool enrichment with family engagement

 

Teach skills
  • Social-emotional learning
  • Safe dating and healthy relationship skill programs
  • Parenting skills and family relationship approaches

 

Connect youth to caring adults and activities
  • Mentoring programs
  • After-school programs

 

Intervene to lessen immediate and long-term harms
  • Enhanced primary care
  • Victim-centered services
  • Treatment to lessen the harms of ACEs
  • Treatment to prevent problem behavior and future involvement in violence
  • Family-centered treatment for substance use disorders

 

 

What Interfeares with High Quality Implementation?

Time Demands

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Time demands
Belief that these techniques will take too long.

Knowldge
About the child or the intervention

Skills
Difficulty with an adherence or competence component

Beliefs
Doubts about the intervention or ability to implement it.

Lack of support for implementation
Feeling that you are alone

 

 

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