Full Course Description
Emotions & Behavior — 10 Classroom Activities to Enhance Executive Function and Improve Task Completion
Objectives
- Describe the cognitive science behind learning and memory in a practical, activity-based manner.
- Explain how to become a “Cognitive Detective” to better see what executive functions might be road blocks to a specific student’s achievement.
- Model how to have “Cognitive Conversations” with students to help them move from feel distressed about their learning to feeling like empowered thinkers.
- Show how to fill your tool-box with 10 activities that will immediately transform your students’ learning.
Outline
- Today’s Landscape
- Current Issues
- Simple Activities
- Current Research
- Managing Disruption vs. Time Teaching
- Teacher Attrition
- Facts of teacher dissatisfaction
- Economic Costs
- Teacher turnover
- Drained Resources
- What Counts
- Attitudes and Behaviors
- Teacher-student involvement
- Activities
- It all begins with you
- I believe
- I will connect
- I will BEE authentic
- What is SEL
- 5 Core Competencies
- Self-awareness
- Self-management
- Social awareness
- Relationship skills
- Decision Making
- How does SEL make a difference
- Simple Actions to Make
- Planning
- Applying structure
- Student mentoring and teaching
- Being Present
- Activities
- Create Cognitive Conversations
- Kindness Can
- Bloom Kindness Keeper
- Classroom Culture Agreement
- Classroom Mission Statement
- Kindness Poem
- Cognitive Conversations that Improve Self-Awareness
Program Information
Target Audience
Physicians, Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Describe the cognitive science behind learning and memory in a practical, activity-based manner.
- Explain how to become a “Cognitive Detective” to better see what executive functions might be road blocks to a specific student’s achievement.
- Model how to have “Cognitive Conversations” with students to help them move from feel distressed about their learning to feeling like empowered thinkers.
- Show how to fill your tool-box with 10 activities that will immediately transform your students’ learning.
Outline
- Today’s Landscape
- Current Issues
- Simple Activities
- Current Research
- Managing Disruption vs. Time Teaching
- Teacher Attrition
- Facts of teacher dissatisfaction
- Economic Costs
- Teacher turnover
- Drained Resources
- What Counts
- Attitudes and Behaviors
- Teacher-student involvement
- Activities
- It all begins with you
- I believe
- I will connect
- I will BEE authentic
- What is SEL
- 5 Core Competencies
- Self-awareness
- Self-management
- Social awareness
- Relationship skills
- Decision Making
- How does SEL make a difference
- Simple Actions to Make
- Planning
- Applying structure
- Student mentoring and teaching
- Being Present
- Activities
- Create Cognitive Conversations
- Kindness Can
- Bloom Kindness Keeper
- Classroom Culture Agreement
- Classroom Mission Statement
- Kindness Poem
- Cognitive Conversations that Improve Self-Awareness
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08/25/2016
Emotions & Behavior — 10 Activities to Enhance Social-Emotional Literacy in the Classroom: Transform Student Behavior from Chaos to Calm
Objectives
- Establish a new social-emotional literacy tool for classrooms called Bloom Your Room, created as a 50-piece art collection with research-based strategies, tools and activities build into it. Kids will enjoy the art, talking about the characters and learning social skills, kindness and empathy without any resistance.
- Show how to fill your tool-box with words and activities to help your students on a healthy path to good behavior and top-notch learning.
- Describe exactly what to say to encourage students to be prosocial, kind and caring with one another, allowing you more time to do what you love, teach.
Outline
- Learning Objectives
- Cognitive Science behind learning and memory
- Cognitive Detective
- Cognitive Conversations
- Tool-box
- 10 Thinking Skill Activities
- The Love Notes from Musical Thinking
- Slow Mo and Quick Rick
- Why We Move To Think
- Let Me Think About That
- What’s In It For Me
- The “Cognitive Conversation”
- My Attention Engine
- Process Speed Front Loading Worksheet
- The HOPPER Homework Planning Sheet
- Put A Bow On It
- Core Executive Functions
- Attention
- Planning and Previewing
- Approaching Tasks
- Initiation and Execution
- Reviewing and Revising
- Organization
- Memory
- Inhibition
- Time estimation, allocation, monitoring
- How We Learn
- What learning is
- How we learn
- Memory
- Neuronal Pathways
- Practice
- Movement
- Rhythm, tempo and timing
- Activities
Program Information
Target Audience
Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Establish a new social-emotional literacy tool for classrooms called Bloom Your Room, created as a 50-piece art collection with research-based strategies, tools and activities build into it. Kids will enjoy the art, talking about the characters and learning social skills, kindness and empathy without any resistance.
- Show how to fill your tool-box with words and activities to help your students on a healthy path to good behavior and top-notch learning.
- Describe exactly what to say to encourage students to be prosocial, kind and caring with one another, allowing you more time to do what you love, teach.
Outline
- Learning Objectives
- Cognitive Science behind learning and memory
- Cognitive Detective
- Cognitive Conversations
- Tool-box
- 10 Thinking Skill Activities
- The Love Notes from Musical Thinking
- Slow Mo and Quick Rick
- Why We Move To Think
- Let Me Think About That
- What’s In It For Me
- The “Cognitive Conversation”
- My Attention Engine
- Process Speed Front Loading Worksheet
- The HOPPER Homework Planning Sheet
- Put A Bow On It
- Core Executive Functions
- Attention
- Planning and Previewing
- Approaching Tasks
- Initiation and Execution
- Reviewing and Revising
- Organization
- Memory
- Inhibition
- Time estimation, allocation, monitoring
- How We Learn
- What learning is
- How we learn
- Memory
- Neuronal Pathways
- Practice
- Movement
- Rhythm, tempo and timing
- Activities
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08/23/2016
Emotions & Behavior — Yoga and Mindfulness: Brain Body Tools for Children and Adolescents
Objectives
- Practice 2 deep breathing techniques for calming and regulation
- Assess simple hatha yoga poses for attention and relaxation
- Demonstrate mindfulness principles through activities and stories
- Explore meditation and guided imagery through short activities
Outline
- Mindfulness Made Easy
- Use stories to demonstrate mindfulness in our daily lives
- Tenets of mindfulness
- Being a witness of the mind
- Breathing Techniques
- Three-part breath
- Equal breath
- Hand placements
- Hatha Yoga Poses for the Classroom for Attention and Regulation
- Seated poses
- Standing poses
- Savasana “ Do nothing Doll Pose”
- Guided Imagery and Meditation
- Elements to create relaxation with imagery
- The Raft
- Grounding Column
Program Information
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Teachers/Educators, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, and other Mental Health Professionals
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04/28/2014
Emotions & Behavior — ACEs: What You Need to Know TODAY About the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
OUTLINE
- What is an ACE?
- The 10 ACE questions
- Why ACEs matter
- Consequences
- Physical
- Behavioral
- Psychological
- Emotional
- Social
- Biomedical considerations
- Becoming trauma-informed
- Resilience survey
- Prevention:
- Personal
- Family
- Community
- Solutions
OBJECTIVES
- List the consequences of a high ACE score
- Describe how resilience enhances prevention
- Identify trauma-informed interventions
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals
Outline
- What is an ACE?
- The 10 ACE questions
- Why ACEs matter
- Consequences
- Physical
- Behavioral
- Psychological
- Emotional
- Social
- Biomedical considerations
- Becoming trauma-informed
- Resilience survey
- Prevention:
- Personal
- Family
- Community
- Solutions
Objectives
- List the consequences of a high ACE score
- Describe how resilience enhances prevention
- Identify trauma-informed interventions
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07/07/2016
Autism & ADHD — Yoga & Mindfulness Based Practices to Support Children & Adolescents with ADHD
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Articulate how the body and nervous system effect ADHD symptomology in children.
- Consider clinical implications of utilizing yoga and mindfulness practices to reduce ADHD symptoms in clients.
Outline
- Understanding ADHD through the Body and Nervous System
- How Can Yoga & Mindfulness Help Children with ADHD?
- The Five Elements of Yoga and Mindfulness
- Practices
- Connect Activity to Orient and Sooth the Protective Brain: Layers of Sound
- Breathe Activity to Regulate Nervous System: Breath of Joy
- Move Activity to Calm and Ground: Chair Yoga Sequence
- Focus Activity to Improve Attention: I Am In Charge
- Relax Activity to Increase Embodiment and Support Rest: Tense and Let Go
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01/12/2016
Autism & ADHD — The Emotional Intelligence of Asperger’s Syndrome: Interventions to Achieve Social and Personal Success
OUTLINE
- Emotional Quotient (EQ) of Asperger’s Syndrome (AS)
- How AS Impacts EQ
- AS coping strategies
- AS factors limit the ability to recognize emotional states
- Personal Competences of EQ: Self-awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation
- Develop emotional awareness, self-assessment and self-confidence
- Improve self-control, conscientiousness and adaptability
- Increase focus, achievement, commitment, initiative and optimism
- Social Competence of EQ: Social Awareness and Social Skills
- Strengthen empathy, service orientation and leverage
- Develop communication, conflict management, bonds, collaboration and cooperation
OBJECTIVES
- Identify key areas of emotional difficulty for individuals presenting with AS
- Summarize how the concepts of EQ can negatively impact AS intervention
- Develop appropriate goals for deficiencies in both personal and social EQ competencies
- Discuss how EQ directly impacts your client’s perception of himself
- State how EQ impacts your client’s perception of those around him
Program Information
Target Audience
Speech-Language Pathologists, Speech-Language Pathology Assistants, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Special Education Teachers, ESE Teachers, General Education Teachers, School Administrators, Educational Paraprofessionals, Behavior Specialists, Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers
Objectives
- Identify key areas of emotional difficulty for individuals presenting with AS
- Summarize how the concepts of EQ can negatively impact AS intervention
- Develop appropriate goals for deficiencies in both personal and social EQ competencies
- Discuss how EQ directly impacts your client’s perception of himself
- State how EQ impacts your client’s perception of those around him
Outline
- Emotional Quotient (EQ) of Asperger’s Syndrome (AS)
- How AS Impacts EQ
- AS coping strategies
- AS factors limit the ability to recognize emotional states
- Personal Competences of EQ: Self-awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation
- Develop emotional awareness, self-assessment and self-confidence
- Improve self-control, conscientiousness and adaptability
- Increase focus, achievement, commitment, initiative and optimism
- Social Competence of EQ: Social Awareness and Social Skills
- Strengthen empathy, service orientation and leverage
- Develop communication, conflict management, bonds, collaboration and cooperation
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10/18/2016
Sensory Modulation, Part 1 — How to Work with Children: A Sensory Approach
OUTLINE
- 10 core elements of sensory interventions
- Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
- Build a rapport with the child
- Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
- Design interventions: keep the workload down
- Make it fun!
OBJECTIVES
- Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
- Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
- Develop a solid rapport with the child.
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
- Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
- Develop a solid rapport with the child.
Outline
- 10 core elements of sensory interventions
- Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
- Build a rapport with the child
- Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
- Design interventions: keep the workload down
- Make it fun!
Copyright :
02/15/2016
Sensory Modulation, Part 2 — Environmental Enrichment: A Sensory-Based Protocol to Reduce the Severity of Autism
OUTLINE
Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol
- What is it?
- What evidence do we have?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol
- The short and long versions
- The materials
- How, where and when to put the protocol in place
Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism
- 34 activities
- Live demonstrations with children
Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol
- Grade the challenge with alternate activities
- Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities
OBJECTIVES
- Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
- Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
- Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
- Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
- Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
- Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
- Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.
Outline
Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol
- What is it?
- What evidence do we have?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol
- The short and long versions
- The materials
- How, where and when to put the protocol in place
Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism
- 34 activities
- Live demonstrations with children
Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol
- Grade the challenge with alternate activities
- Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities
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02/15/2016
Sensory Modulation, Part 3 — Story-Based 4- and 7-Minute Workouts for the Classroom and Home
Objectives
- List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
- Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
- Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
- Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.
Outline
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)
- Sensory solutions for the classroom
- Dodging Tomatoes
- Stuff the Turkey
- Pirates
7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine
- 4 types of exercises
- Putting them together
- A story: Spaceship
Create your own story-based exercise routines
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
- Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
- Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
- Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.
Outline
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)
- Sensory solutions for the classroom
- Dodging Tomatoes
- Stuff the Turkey
- Pirates
7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine
- 4 types of exercises
- Putting them together
- A story: Spaceship
Create your own story-based exercise routines
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02/22/2016
Sensory Modulation, Part 4 — Sensory Enrichment: Using Everyday Activities to Calm Sensitivities and Sensory Craving
Objectives
- Distinguish three general desensitization techniques.
- Develop a repertoire of sensory-based activities.
- Compare the evidence for sensory therapy Vs. Ayers™ Sensory Integration.
Outline
Sensory immersion & desensitization
- What is it?
- What evidence do we have?
Desensitization demonstrations
- Sound-effects story
- Get used to gooey
- Food play
Turn small activities into projects and hobbies
Immersion activity demonstrations
- Yarn rolling, wrapping, chaining
- Project: cover a box
- Stone gluing
- Project: make a planter
- Scented “flowers”
- Project: indoor sensory garden
- Music: make a playlist
- Color: fabric on a ring, paper mosaics
- Project: collage
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/22/2016
Anxiety — Body Dysmorphia: The Hidden Disorder
OUTLINE
- Clues to BDD-the hidden disorder
- Assessment of BDD
- Pharmacotherapy for BDD
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for BDD
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for BDD
- Cases Examples
OBJECTIVES
- Identify clues to pursue a diagnosis of BDD with a client.
- Describe the importance and role of pharmacotherapy in treating BDD.
- Implement at least 4 different CBT and ACT skills in treating a client with BDD
Program Information
Target Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Educators, SLP, OT
Objectives
- Identify clues to pursue a diagnosis of BDD with a client.
- Describe the importance and role of pharmacotherapy in treating BDD.
- Implement at least 4 different CBT and ACT skills in treating a client with BDD
Outline
- Clues to BDD-the hidden disorder
- Assessment of BDD
- Pharmacotherapy for BDD
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for BDD
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for BDD
- Cases Examples
Copyright :
10/20/2016
Anxiety — Social Anxiety: Step by Step Techniques to Overcome Fear, Shyness & Social Phobia
OUTLINE
- Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
- Thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Develop a hierarchy using trigger situations
- Social skills – practice common social interactions
- Develop and practice exposure and response prevention
- Practice challenging automatic thoughts
- Learn how to overcome obstacles to doing homework
- Demonstrate how to involve families in treatment
- Termination and relapse prevention
OBJECTIVES
- Explain the anxious brain so that your clients can understand why they avoid social situations.
- Develop and demonstrate appropriate exposures for social anxiety.
- Show the family to help their child accept their anxious thoughts and feelings and encourage brave behavior.
Program Information
Target Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Educators, SLP, OT
Objectives
- Explain the anxious brain so that your clients can understand why they avoid social situations.
- Develop and demonstrate appropriate exposures for social anxiety.
- Show the family to help their child accept their anxious thoughts and feelings and encourage brave behavior.
Outline
- Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
- Thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Develop a hierarchy using trigger situations
- Social skills – practice common social interactions
- Develop and practice exposure and response prevention
- Practice challenging automatic thoughts
- Learn how to overcome obstacles to doing homework
- Demonstrate how to involve families in treatment
- Termination and relapse prevention
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10/20/2016
Anxiety — Emerging Adults: Clinical Strategies to Gain Independence, Defeat Anxiety and Succeed in the Real World
OUTLINE
- Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
- Falling off the developmental progression
- Develop life-skills goals for functioning
- Develop a hierarchy for anxiety exposure
- Practice exposure and response prevention and life-skills
- Practice challenging automatic thoughts
- Termination and relapse prevention
OBJECTIVES
- Explain the anxious brain and the interruption to normal development of life skills present in Emerging Adults with anxiety and depression.
- Develop an appropriate hierarchy for exposure and response prevention.
- Implement goals for life - skills.
Program Information
Target Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Educators, SLP, OT
Outline
- Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
- Falling off the developmental progression
- Develop life-skills goals for functioning
- Develop a hierarchy for anxiety exposure
- Practice exposure and response prevention and life-skills
- Practice challenging automatic thoughts
- Termination and relapse prevention
Objectives
- Explain the anxious brain and the interruption to normal development of life skills present in Emerging Adults with anxiety and depression.
- Develop an appropriate hierarchy for exposure and response prevention.
- Implement goals for life - skills.
Copyright :
10/20/2016