Thank you for attending the Children in Trauma 2009 Conference

Neuroscience and the Age of Miracles
with Dr. Richard L. Gaskill, ChildTrauma Academy Fellow

January 16-17, 2009
California State University, Chico campus

NEWS: Northstate Public Radio (KCHO 91.7 FM & KFPR 88.9 FM) will air an interview with Richard Gaskill on Health Desk Tuesday, January 13 at 7:35 AM and 6:44 PM.


Children in Trauma 2009 is an intensive two day practicum into how traumatic stress can alter early development, how to recognize this problem, and what to do about it.

Conference Description:
Neuroscience is revealing new insights about the biology of trauma related disorders such as PTSD. These new insights were largely unknown and unavailable to mental health workers, teachers, and parents a few years ago. This rapidly evolving knowledge is contributing to the development of improved perceptions of trauma and treatments for those suffering from social-emotional trauma related disorders. It has become increasingly clear that low brain regions (brainstem and diencephalon) are as organizationally affected by trauma as higher regions.

Unfortunately, most of our traditional therapies focused heavily on cognitive/emotional issues and did not address the lower brain disorganization resulting from trauma (physiological arousal, physiological states, sleep, and motor control). Today a more prescriptive approach is developing that matches interventions to the locus of neural trauma and disorganization. This information gives mental health workers, educators, childcare workers, and parents greater understanding of the child’s difficulties and an improved ability to intervene successfully with those adversely affected by severe trauma.    

Attend Children in Trauma and You Will:
- Be able to describe the fundamental sequence of neurobiological development in human development.
- Discover the neurobiological impact of social and emotional trauma involved in severe stress related disorders.
- Learn to apply the core Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics to social-emotional trauma cases.

Richard L. Gaskill, Ed.D., is a ChildTrauma Fellow and the Clinical Director at Sumner Mental Health Center in Wellington, KS. He is also the Children's Services Coordinator for the mental health center. Gaskill has worked in community mental health for nearly 30 years.  In his work with children, Gaskill has developed numerous programs for children and their parents; including child development classes, parenting classes, child-parent relationship training, attachment enhancement treatment groups, therapeutic alternative schools, therapeutic preschools, after school programs, and juvenile offender programs. Gaskill was the first Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor in Kansas. He has been a member of the Kansas Play Therapy Association Board since its inception and served on the national APT nominations committee. He also serves on a number of national, state, and local advisory committees regarding the delivery of educational and mental health issues for children.

Continuing Education Credit - BBSE BRN MCEP MCLE

Participants may earn 12 hours of BBSE (Provider PCE 799), BRN (Provider 00656), MCEP (Provider CAL123), and MCLE continuing education credit.

We hope you can join us.  Please save-the-dates and make early plans to attend.

Single Registration = $315
Early single registration deadline is January 5, 2009, $315 after January 5.

Group Registration = $275 per person, for groups of 4 or more from the same organization
Early group registration deadline is January 5, 2009, $275 after Janurary 5.

Tentative Schedule:

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Who should attend:

Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Social Workers
Counselors
Psychiatrists
Educators
Attorneys
Child Custody Evaluators
and Mediators
Behavioral Health Professionals
Nurses
Physicians
Children’s Advocates