Using Neurobiology to Prevent Psychological Trauma and Shape Early Intervention - Stacy S Drury

This presentation focuses on redefining what is known about the impact of early trauma from injury and medical illness, in terms of modalities to prevent and/or alter this trajectory through the use of early treatment and preventative strategies.

Stacy Drury, M.D, Ph.D, does this be zeroing in on evidenced based methods, such as CBT, and other less well studied approaches to minimize initial distress, improve children’s coping strategies, and work within the parent-child dyad to improve long term and short term outcomes. The presentation ends with a discussion of the importance of these early intervention strategies to alter early neurobiological trajectories and thus improve long term outcomes.