Created to Heal: How Neuroplasticity Offers Hope for Children & Their Families What exactly is Neuroplasticity, and how can it help children in adversity and their families? Created to Heal explores the incredible way that the human brain is created to heal and how it offers hope for children who have experienced adversity and trauma early in life. While adverse experiences can negatively impact brain development, this book reveals how nurturing environments and intentional caregiving can literally rewire the brain for healing and help these children move towards fulfilling their potential.
DR. NICOLE G. WILKE Director, Research Center
CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS
MEREDITH CALEB Educator & Writer
Topics Covered in Created to Heal ALISHA PANGBORN Techincal Writer & Research Coordinator
Chapter 1: Straightening the Tree: Why Neuroplasticity Matters Chapter 2: How Brains Develop and Change Chapter 3: How the Brain Responds to Stress Chapter 4: How Brains Heal from Trauma Chapter 5: Practical Principles to Support Healing
Suggested Interview Topics and Questions • Understanding the idea of neuroplasticity, how the brain can change across life • The differences between stress, adversity, and trauma • How stress can be positive, tolerable, or toxic, and how stress impacts the brain • Why learning about early brain development is important and relevant to caregivers, parents, teachers, church members, and others • What it means for children to be impacted by early adversity and what it means for them to heal • How positive experiences with adults can alter a child’s mind for the better and help them heal from early adversity • How caregivers and parents can apply this information • Ways that caregivers, parents, teachers, church members, and others can work together to be positive influences on the children in their lives