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Ten Things to Know About Trauma and Learning
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The brain undergoes dramatic changes during adolescence, offering young people the chance to heal from trauma experienced early in life with targeted support and invention. But because of these changes in the brain, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the impact of trauma, which can impede their development and learning.
Alliance for Excellent Education provides information on research shows that adolescence is a period when the human brain develops the capacity to engage in key elements of learning, such as critical thinking and problem solving.
Trauma can impede this development by interfering with critical processes that comprise the neurological foundation for learning. The adolescent brain is malleable, which makes adolescents particularly vulnerable to the impact of trauma. Yet this malleability also presents an opportunity. Since the brain undergoes dramatic changes during adolescence, this period of development offers the chance to heal from trauma experienced early in life when young people receive targeted support and intervention.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2019
- Organizational Author(s): Alliance for Excellent Education
- Posted by: Maisha Meminger
- Posted in: Youth Connections