Children With Complex Behavioral Health Conditions Benefit From A Neuroscience Approach With Three Pillars: Safe Places, Treatment To Heal & Opportunities To Grow

Children with complex behavioral health conditions, particularly dysregulated behavior and physical aggression, and their families, face significant barriers to accessing effective services and could be better served by state frameworks that embrace a neuroscience approach, according to a recent report. A neuroscience approach is based on understanding how neurodevelopmental disabilities and trauma affect a child’s development, and how the brain's plasticity enables recovery and growth, providing a foundation for effective intervention. Three key components are needed: safe places, treatment to heal, and opportunities to grow.

Safe places encompass more than physical and emotional safety by providing connection to . . .