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The Effects of Early Trauma on Brain Development: Relevance in 2023
March 20, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
For our next lecture in the 2022-2023 Alumni Series, we will be joined by Geraldine Crisci in a talk titled, “The Effects of Early Trauma on Brain Development: Relevance in 2023.”
Geraldine Crisci, M.S.W. is a mental health professional with over 30 years experience in the field of trauma. She is a private practitioner who provides assessment and treatment to children, youth and their families. She is also a professional trainer providing educational programs to mental health, protective services, law enforcement, medical and other helping professions. Geraldine has developed and teaches a six-day Trauma Assessment and Treatment Program which has reached 6000 professionals in the past 18 years.
Further information about Geraldine Crisci can be found below.
Alumni, students, faculty and members of the public are all welcome to attend.
Date: Monday, March 20, 2023
Time: 6:30pm—8:00pm EST
Location: Zoom
Certificate of Attendance: Participants will be eligible to receive a certificate of attendance for use towards professional development. An e-certificate will be issued to participants who join us for 80% or more of the lecture time.
About Geraldine Crisci
Geraldine Crisci, M.S.W. is a mental health professional with over 30 years experience in the field of trauma. She is a private practitioner who provides assessment and treatment to children, youth and their families. She is also a professional trainer providing educational programs to mental health, protective services, law enforcement, medical and other helping professions. Geraldine has developed and teaches a six-day Trauma Assessment and Treatment Program which has reached 6000 professionals in the past 18 years.
Geraldine has developed protocols for the assessment and treatment of trauma, sexualized behaviour problems in prepubescent children and sibling sexual abuse. Geraldine has developed reunification protocol for families in which sibling sexual abuse has occurred. She has provided support to agencies and families in the successful adoption of children from the Protection system. She has worked extensively with residential and day treatment programs for children and youth for the past 25 years.
Geraldine specializes in addressing the impact of trauma on the behaviour of children and youth. To this end she develops clinical programs to provide children, youth and their families with corrective effective therapeutic intervention. Geraldine is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC); a member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA); a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CPRO) and the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW). She co-authored Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children.