October 4, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Pacific
1 Hour | 1 CE
Live Virtual Training via Zoom
Jerrod Brown, PhD presents a live virtual professional training program on Prenatal Toxic Stress and Trauma Exposure: Implications for Mood, Behavior, Cognition, and Criminality.
Prenatal exposure to toxic stress and trauma can contribute to poor behavioral health outcomes across the lifespan. Designed for professionals, this training provides attendees with a working understanding of the causes, consequences, and interventions associated with the impact prenatal toxic stress and trauma exposure have on client-based populations across the lifespan. This training is perfect for those who work in healthcare, education, or social services.
The program will explore things like stress overload, how stress can upset the body's balance, cause inflammation, and even pass on issues from one generation to the next. Participants will learn about the importance of a mother's relationship with her baby during early life and how a mom's stress during pregnancy can affect this relationship.
Other related topics that will be discussed include:
- Allostatic load
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysregulation
- Inflammation
- Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Maternal prenatal stress
- Mother-infant attachment patterns
- Pandemic-related stress
- Prenatal air pollution exposure
- Prenatal exposure to disaster-related traumatic stress
- Prenatal intimate partner violence exposure

Intended Audience
This live program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.

Experience Level
This live program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.

CE / CPD Credit
APA, ASWB, CPA, NBCC: Click here for state and other regional board approvals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe prenatal toxic stress and trauma exposure and other related topics
Describe the implications of prenatal toxic stress and trauma exposure have on clients seeking services from behavioral health providers
Describe the impact prenatal toxic stress and trauma exposure has on mood, behavior, cognition, and criminality
Describe screening and intervention considerations through a behavioral health lens
Describe relevant and up-to-date research findings

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Event Communications
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Cancellation Policy
Have a sudden change of plans and are unable to attend the live program? No worries, you will have the opportunity to request access to the on-demand program once available. Please note; if you attend the live program; no access to the recording will be available.
Event Conduct
Professional conduct is expected during our live programs. Our goal is to make our events as interactive as possible for all participants. We reserve the right to remove any participants who are disruptive, act unprofessionally, or who we are unable to verify their purchase.
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Earning Certificate
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CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.