- PMD: 6
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Introduction
- Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- learn about the latest research on the effects of school shootings on students;
- understand research-based interventions that have been found to decrease the negative effects of a traumatic event; and
- implement preventive measures and trauma-informed practices that increase protective factors for youth following a trauma.
Description
This research educates students and practitioners on the differing impacts of school shootings on students' well-being and identifies risk and protective factors and research-based interventions mitigating trauma.
Presenter(s)
Alexis G. Ahumada, EdS, Florida International University
Kaitlyn V. Weaver, Florida International University
Philip J. Lazarus, PhD, Florida International University
