Mona Delahooke – Social and Emotional Development for Children and Teens: Mind-Body Strategies to Improve Challenging Behaviors, Self-Regulation and Stress
Through clear, straightforward steps, guiding principles and mind-body techniques backed by neuroscience and research, Mona Delahooke, PhD, will teach you practical methods to better support the social and emotional lives of the children and families you work with.
Watch this cutting-edge seminar and you will learn valuable tools to nurture relationships, measure progress, reduce child stress, address challenging behaviors and promote self-regulation. Through case studies, video examples, and dynamic discussion you will learn how and when to use specific treatment techniques based on each child’s unique individual emotional, sensory/motor and developmental profile.
Discover how to customize treatment and educational strategies across disciplines through a mind/body and user-friendly roadmap of social and emotional development applicable to:
- Oppositional Defiance
- Challenging behaviors
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Autism
- Mental health issues
- Developmental delays
- Communication delays
- Sensory Processing disorders
This workshop will show how to develop these skills in children and teens with clear, practical and attuned strategies to guide you to harness strength and hope in garnering psychological resilience for children and families.
Who should takes the course
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Other Helping Professionals
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish between the biological and psychological components of psychiatric symptoms and learn how to work collaboratively with both.
- Explore your client’s attitude and responses toward medication, such as fears of changes in personality, becoming dependent, ingesting a foreign substance, losing symptoms, or uncovering wounds and vulnerabilities.
- Examine your own feeling and beliefs around meds that can get in the way of the therapeutic process.
- Explain how psychiatric medications work in the brain.
- Summarize the best prescribing practices for treating depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, PTSD, dissociation, psychotic disorders, insomnia, ADHD, and more.
- Describe alternative treatments and medications new to the market.
Course Modules / Outline
* Foundations for Social-Emotional Treatment
- Difference between developmental and chronological age and clinical/educational implications
- Neuroception—Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges, Ph.D.)
- The therapeutic “use of self”
- Difference between purposeful misbehavior and stress responses
- Parent-child and provider-parent relationships
- Promote a calm and alert state
* Strategies Tailored to Individual Differences
- Conscious vs unconscious behaviors
- Identify underlying challenges
- Work at each person’s neurodevelopmental level
- Identify the behavioral features of stress responses and how to support in real time
- Treat functional capacities/challenges across diagnoses
- Three steps to personalized attunement
* Mind-Based Techniques for Regulation, Attention and Engagement
- Sensorimotor contributions to physiological regulation
- Establish the neuroception of safety as the priority
- Auditory and other sensory pathways to support physiological and emotional regulation
- Play techniques for pre-symbolic development
- Powerful wordless dialogues
- Non-verbal social problem solving
* Body-Based Techniques for Social Problem-Solving, Executive Function and Cognitive Flexibility
- Communicative flow
- Build symbolic bridges
- Re-enactment of procedural memories and how to debrief
- Availability to use “mind” to control body
- Integrate mind/body strategies
* Techniques for Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Behavioral, developmental and hybrid approaches—how to choose
- Floortime®, DIR and FCD, and developmental, relationship-based techniques
- Behavioral and developmental techniques
- Alternative forms of communication for non-speakers
- Lessons about neurodiversity and avoiding ableism
* Techniques for Communication Delays
- Non-verbal communication
- Affect/emotion harnessing techniques
- Promote intentional communication with caregiver
- How to combine words, affect and action
* Techniques for Challenging Behaviors
- Deconstruct oppositional defiant disorder
- Determine upstream causes of challenging behaviors
- Use the child’s natural sensory preferences for cooperation
- Stress responses and faulty neuroception
- Support adaptive responses to emotional dysregulation
* Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma
- Identify stress responses as early as possible
- Emotional co-regulation and modulation strategies
- Build symbolic pathways through story telling
- Explore fears through procedural re-enactment
- Partner with parents
Meet the Course Expert:
Mona M. Delahooke, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who’s worked with multi-disciplinary teams for over 30 years. A senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, she’s the author of the national bestseller Brain-Body Parenting, How to Stop Managing Behaviors and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids, and the award-winning Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges.
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