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Tools for Helping Kids & Teens Cope with Trauma Webinar

  • January 19, 2017
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Online SENGinar

What to Do When The Sky is Falling: Tools for Helping

Kids & Teens Cope With Trauma


Gifted kids and teens, due to the combination of their abilities and over-excitabilities are often impacted by trauma and tragedy more than their less sensitive peers.


What can you do when a creative, highly sensitive, intense, gifted child or teen is traumatized by tragedy, when it’s on the other side of the country or world?What can you do to help them when the tragedy or trauma is in your own community? 


In this presentation, you will learn:

  • Seven signs of a normal response to trauma
  • The one simple first, best and last mind-body tool that can be used anywhere, any time to counteract the negative effects of trauma
  • Two underlying principals to guide your trauma interventions with your sensitive, gifted child
  • Four things to DO to help them process their difficult emotions
  • Three ways to tell if or when to get professional help for your student with Trauma Exposure

About the Presenter

Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW has more than twenty-five years of experience helping CASIGYs™ (Creative, Acutely Aware, Super-Sensitive, Intense, Intelligent, and/or Gifted You-s) cope creatively with change, loss and life transitions. She has a Masters of Science in Social Work Degree from San Diego State University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Colorado. She is a past board member of the Denver Chapter of the Colorado Society for Clinical Social Work. She has authored journal articles and presented various at various professional and public conferences and given many workshops.


Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW



Fee: $30.00 for SENG Members;  

$40.00 for Non-Members


Click here for complete details and registration.


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