So You Have a Student With Trauma/PTSD... Now What?

How do you help students with trauma/PTSD? Discover how to accommodate students.

As the 2022-23 school year gets underway, it’s an ideal time to consider the challenges students suffering from trauma or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can face. They may be overwhelmed with feelings of depression and anxiety, finding the environment challenging while struggling to recover. You can apply proven tactics to help your students feel safe, learn, and avoid distracting others.

Now is the time to take action and help your students feel safe and hopeful.  Targeted prevention and optimal strategies to foster focus in the classroom will enable you to help your students learn. These techniques will diffuse challenging behaviors in students who have PTSD to help them embrace learning.

• What specific language can you use?
• What refocusing techniques are effective?
• Should you provide differentiated consequences for students with PTSD?
• How should you interface with students who have difficulty paying attention?
• How can you provide an outlet for students to process their traumas?
• What steps can you take to facilitate positive interactions?

We are offering a multi-part series of specific training sessions with unique strategies that every teacher and administrator in your school can use to help all students here.