what recent brain research tells us about how fear and trauma impact learning march 2015...

what recent brain research tells us about

how fear and trauma impact learning

March 2015

Mary-Catherine Bailey-McKenna, M.Ed., M.A., B.Ed., R. Psychologist

www.ctc1990.com

Workshop GoalsS self-initiated and self-maintained

M measurable

A achievable

R realistic

T transferable

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Learning

What impacts learning?

Brain Development3-6yr

1-4yr

6mo-2yr

0-9mo*

attachment

sensory

emotional

thinking

FEAR

Fear

Brain Systems (Primary, Secondar

y)Stateis ..

Plans for .. Does …

Fight/Flight

Response is …

Freeze/Surrend

er Respons

e is ..

Acts and Thinks like …

Responds to …

Neo CortexCortex Calm

Extended Future

Thinking / Reflective

Rest Rest

30 year old – 15 year oldAdult/Adolescent

Talk, Ideas

CortexLimbic

Alert Days / Hours

Thinking / Learning (Concrete)

VigilanceAvoidance

15 year old –

8 year oldAdolescent/Child

Talk, Engaged Learning

LimbicMidbrain

AlarmHours / Minutes Emotion

Resistance(Crying)

Compliant(Robotic)

8 year old -3 year oldChild/Toddler

Play, Engaged Learning, Metaphors

 MidbrainBrain Stem

FearMinutes Seconds

ReactiveDefiance(Tantrums)

Fetal Rocking

3 year old – 1 year oldToddler/ Infant

Doing, Cues

Brain StemAutonomic

TerrorLoss of Sense of Time

ReflexiveAggression

Fainting

1 year old – newbornInfant/Newborn

Safety Cues(non-verbal)

Fear Response

www.childtraumaacademy.com

www.teachingrefugees.com Social Community Supports / Supports Resources / Cues and Strategies

Fear Response

Trauma

List some types of traumatic events.

Trauma

www.childtraumaacademy.com

http://www.psychologyinaction.org/

ACE: H/S 30 Students

# Students

# ACE

0 61 52 63 34

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6+ 3

robertandamd.com

PTSD

www.traumacentre.org

Regulate

Relate

Reason

Engage

www.thinkkids.org

Play the “Regulate” Game.

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moving

thinking

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Relate

www.allanschore.com

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Sources & Resources

• Dr. Stuart Ablon, http://thinkkids.org

• Dr. Robert Anda, www.robertandamd.com

• MC Bailey-McKenna, www.ctc1990.com

• Dr. John Briere, www.johnbriere.com

• Calgary Board of Education, www.teachingrefugees.com

• Heart Math Institute, www.heartmath.com/institute-of-heartmath/

• Leah Kuypers, www.zonesofregulation.com/

• Dr. Gordon Neufeld, www.neufeldinstitute.com

• Dr. Bruce Perry, www.childtraumaacademy.com

• Dr. Allan Schore, www.allanschore.com/articles.php (2009) Relational Trauma and the Developing Right Brain: The neurobiology of broken attachment bonds

• Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, www.traumacenter.org