Leveraging Neuroplasticity to Redirect Youth from Carceral Involvement
About
This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Diana Fishbein who will present on “Capitalizing on Neuroplasticity Across Development to Redirect Pathways from Juvenile Justice Involvement”. Dr. Fishbein will discuss insights on how to disrupt an adverse developmental pathway in young people that may lead to incarceration.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the interplay among trauma exposure, neurodevelopmental pathways, and behavioral outcomes that may lead to juvenile carceral involvement.
- Explain the concept of neurodevelopmental malleability in response to both detrimental and positive experiences, particularly during sensitive periods of maturation.
- Describe the potential for well-targeted interventions to strengthen brain systems that modulate self-regulation, with the goal of diverting youth from involvement in the juvenile carceral system.
Professional Credit
- This activity provides the following types of credit: AMA, AAPA, APA, ANCC, ASWB, ABIM-MOC, ABP-MOC.
- 1.0 credits are available.
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Featuring
Diana Fishbein, PhD is a senior scientist and Director of Translational Neuro-Prevention Research in the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). She is also part-time research faculty at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Fishbein’s research supports the premise that underlying neurobiological mechanisms interact with the quality of our psychosocial experiences and environmental contexts to alter trajectories either toward or away from risk behaviors, and that compensatory mechanisms can be strengthened with targeted interventions. She serves in an advisory capacity for federal and state government bodies as well as several universities and organizations. Given the inherent translational nature of this research, she founded and directs the National Prevention Science Coalition for Improving Lives, a national organization dedicated to the transfer of knowledge from the basic sciences to practices in real world settings and public health policies. Through dissemination and advocacy, she actively informs the decision-making of federal and state level policymakers and agency administrators about the value and utility of prevention science to increase uptake of best practices.