This Set 1 interactive session brings together the neuroscience of brain development beginning before birth, early childhood behavior, toxic stress, trauma, and approaches to promotion, protection, and repair of social and emotional development. Objectives and goals are:
1. Analyze behavior of infants and young children from a neuroscience perspective,
2. Trace healthy and trauma-derailed neuropathways attributable to toxic stress,
3. Reframe challenging behaviors as social and emotional developmental delay,
4. Describe approaches that promote early childhood social and emotional development.