47.474 SEMINAR
THE ROLE OF TRAUMA IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Includes complete reference information for each week's readings
Foster care and college: Introduction
Foster care and school stability: Interview with college student formerly in foster care
Twelve year old boy's journey through foster care: Taking this experience into the classroom
Trauma, brain, and relationship: Helping Children Heal
Free download for RealPlayer
An interview with Judith Herman author of Trauma and Recovery. Available in audio and streaming video
Public
awareness & education videos: Teens talk about rape, eating disorders, and dating violence;
description of physical and psychological abuse experienced by “Tina”
prior to her death at age 15.
NCPTSD
online video: Children
and Trauma
University
of New Mexico, Dept. of Psychiatry: The Body-Mind and Trauma; Measuring Torture, Trauma and Health Status
of Refugees
NIH
Videocasts. Search for maltreatment also for PTSD. (RealPlayer
required)
MA
Citizens for Children: A State Call to Action. Foster Care and Adoption
Exploring Child Welfare, Joan Shireman, Portland State University. Select Foster Care and Adoption—Special Needs on menu.
What's culture got to do with it? Prof RE Wood, Sociology, Rutgers, Samurai Baseball
Issues with incidence data from HHS Secretary 1996 report (.ppt from class 9.16)
Recommended:
The Orphan Trains, PBS video (1995). UML Library Media Center S-VT 3516
Rabbit Proof Fence, Miramax (2002). Your local video store or check UML Virtual Library
More Trauma related resources coming
Available
from School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/cfp
Joint
Center for
Series of
working papers and other documents available online, e.g., Mayer, S. (1997). How
Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American
Children's Educational Attainment? JCPR Working Paper 14101-01-2000 http://www.jcpr.org/publications.html
The Brain Connection [Flash, Shockwave] The Scientific Learning Corporation maintains the Brain Connection, a Web site "dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn." This site contains descriptions, pictures, animations, puzzles, quizzes on the human brain.
NOVA Online: Life's Greatest Miracle The companion Web site to the NOVA program Life's Greatest Miracle. Those users interested mainly in the science of human development will enjoy How Cells Divide and How Sex is Determined. Those more interested in learning about pregnancy can read journal entries from an expectant mother or learn about various screening techniques used to assess the health of an unborn baby.
Principles of human growth and development. One page summary of basic maturational principles from Virginia Tech Extension
Articles from Nature Science Update:
Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Arcus (1998) Temperament. This link takes you to an entry on Temperament and to a site from which you can search this encyclopedia and other Gale academic and reference publications for full text.
Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Steinberg (1998) Parent-Child Relationships. This link takes you to an entry on Parenting across infancy and childhood.
Physical growth and development during early childhood. Links to Laura Berk's chapter summary of her Allyn and Bacon text on development across the lifespan.
Developmental Milestones. University of Michigan resource pages on indices of normal growth and development across childhood; links to American Academy of Pediatrics
Frontline on neuroanatomical changes in the adolescent brain
LD Online learning disability resources for parents, students & teachers
Bring other valuable resources to class so that they can be added to this list
9/6/05