Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection to Build Resilient and Regulated Young Clients
- Speaker:
- Mona M. Delahooke, PhD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Aug 03, 2023
- Product Code:
- POS059482
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
When the children you work with don’t show progress despite your best efforts, it’s time for a course correction that considers what our field too often misses—how humans learn to regulate their emotions and behaviors.
In this innovative session, Mona Delahooke, PhD, will deepen your understanding of a hot topic and powerful tool in helping parents build their child’s mental health: Co-regulation. She will teach you why it’s critical to treatment success, maximizes treatment outcomes, and fills in a missing aspect of what is learned in traditional child mental health treatment.
You’ll explore how:
- The important skill of self-regulation grows out of a child’s experience of co-regulation
- Co-regulation serves to regulate a child’s nervous system
- Internal bodily sensations (interoception) leads the way for future emotional literacy and mental health
- To measure a parent’s and child's detection and interpretation of cues of safety, threat, or dangers
- A new treatment roadmap that you can integrate into your practice immediately
- Why we need to shift away from individual child psychotherapy to dyadic work with caregivers
Dr. Delahooke will share techniques from her award-winning book Beyond Behaviors (PESI Publishing & Media, 2019) and from her latest book Brain-Body Parenting (Harper Wave, 2022). Register now!
Credit
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection (4 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection (99.1 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection - French (4 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection - French (99.1 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection - Italian (4 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection - Italian (99.1 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection - German (4 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection - Spanish (4 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Mona M. Delahooke, PhD Related seminars and products
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.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Mona Delahooke maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, the Profectum Foundation, and Villa Esperanza Services. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Delahooke receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Mona Delahooke is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Zero to Three Foundation, the Infant Development Association of California, and the Partnership for Awareness.
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Objectives
- Explain the “Developmental Iceberg” and how it helps us discover how to support each child and family’s individual needs.
- Summarize four proposed pathways of the nervous system that inform us what to do in real time when managing children’s behavioral challenges.
- Describe how an understanding of neuroception and interoception is changing the meaning of clinical practice in the treatment of emotional regulation issues.
- Illustrate how co-regulation is a parallel process that impacts the therapist, parent, and client.
Outline
“Developmental Iceberg”- Discover how to support each child and family’s individual needs
- Difference between categorical and dimensional clinical thinking
- Know what to do in real time when managing children’s behavioral challenges
- Polyvagal theory and a paradigm shift towards holistic thinking in mental health
- Limitations of the model and the research and implications
- Changing the meaning of clinical practice in the treatment of emotional regulation issues
- Subconscious and conscious processes that influence social and emotional development, psychological symptoms, and brain/body health
- Examples in treatment of childhood anxiety, social anxiety and school refusal
Co-regulation Is a Parallel Process That Impacts the Therapist, Parent, and Client
- What co-regulation is
- How it influences the building of resilience and eventual self-regulation and executive functioning
- The importance of an integrated approach in child psychotherapy
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- School Administrators
- Teachers/School-Based Personnel
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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