Assignment: The Post Institute

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Assignment: Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal The Post Institute
Pick one of your traits and explain the influences that both nature and nurture have on it. For example, if you have a short temper, explain its origins in your genetics, your culture, and your childhood experiences.
1. Module 2 Discussion Questions
· Pick one of your traits and explain the influences that both nature and nurture have on it. For example, if you have a short temper, explain its origins in your genetics, your culture, and your childhood experiences.
2. Module 3 Discussion Questions
· Programs like Head Start aimed at providing cognitive enrichment for children growing up in impoverished areas are focused on children ages 3-5. The newer works on brain development, however, suggest that this may be too late. Do you think enrichment programs for infants would make more sense? Are such programs likely to be socially acceptable or practically feasible?
3. Module 4 Discussion Questions
· Is it possible to overemphasize the importance of secure attachment? Why or why not? Consider this video when formulating your response: :
Assignment: Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal The Post Institute
5. Module 5 Discussion Question
· Given the degree of variability, discuss your position in regards to whether it makes sense to select children for special classes for the gifted on the basis of a single test score? How else could you go about it?
Psychological trauma is damage to the mind that occurs as a result of a distressing event. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved with that experience.