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The Global Pandemic Through the Lens of Trauma
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- Appraise the clinical benefits of creating connection for your trauma clients.
- Utilize various strategies to help kids and adolescents experience emotional safety.
- Demonstrate activities to use in clinical practice that can help trauma clients from re-experiencing past traumas.
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06/08/2020
Help Kids Foster Personal Power and Internal Safety: Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for School & Home
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- Integrate yoga and mindfulness practices that interrupt intrusive thoughts and increase self-compassion
- Discover how increased self-awareness and embodiment can support anxiety reduction and change children’s relationship to stress.
- Implement practices that support increased sense of safety and reduce overwhelm.
- Apply simple practices that build students’ sense of personal power and agency.
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05/08/2020
Oppositional Defiance or Faulty Neuroception: Disruptive Behaviors through the Lens of the Polyvagal Theory
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- Categorize specific behaviours as they relate to each of the three basic pathways of the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
- Utilize neuroception-informed interventions, including physiological co-regulation and interpersonal engagement, to treat oppositional behaviour.
- Appraise the efficacy of integrating the Polyvagal Theory into “behaviour management” programs.
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05/08/2020
Coping Skills for Kids and Tweens: How to Manage Big Feelings in an Uncertain Time and Beyond
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- Determine how the pandemic has impacted students socially and emotionally and integrate strategies for better focus.
- Apply coping skills for kids to try either at home or school to implement safe ways to express anger.
- Develop students' relaxation and coping skills to manage anxiety.
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05/08/2020
When Worry Shows Up at School: A Primer for Educators, Administrators, and Counselors
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- Distinguish the signs and symptoms of school related anxiety.
- Appraise the concept of the worry loop as is relates to children.
- Create effective accommodations for anxiety to ensure they are beneficial, dynamic and temporary.
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05/08/2020
Creating Psychological Safety in the Face of Uncertainty: Family Based Interventions and Skills
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- Utilize three practical strategies to increase the sense of psychological safety for parents.
- Demonstrate the PACE model for developing connection with children and adolescents.
- Develop strategies for parents and children to reflect, regulate their affective states, and relate to one another.
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06/08/2020
Reframing Children’s Traumatic Experiences: Playful, Embodied Interventions to Restore, Regulate & Connect
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- Develop effective ways to help children understand and process on what is happening in their body as a result of traumatic stress.
- Evaluate how embodied interventions can reframe trauma experiences and connect to a mind-body awareness.
- Analyze how sensorimotor processing can alleviate the re-experiencing of trauma.
- Apply specific movement, breathing, interoceptive, and mindfulness techniques that can help children and families gain mastery over their lives.
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06/08/2020
IFS and Parenting: Help Kids Transition Forward to a Calm Centered Place
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- Demonstrate how parents can effectively communicate with their children from a calm, centered place.
- Demonstrate how parents can facilitate children's self-awareness, confidence, and control of challenging circumstances.
- Create ways to encourage parents toward compassion and empathy in challenging moments instead of guilt and shame.
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06/08/2020
Adolescence in Crisis: Racial Trauma and Identity (A Trauma-Focused DBT Perspective)
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- Apply a racial trauma-informed treatment framework to existing and future clients.
- Appraise how a DBT-informed approach can support clients who have experienced racial trauma.
- Utilize DBT strategies to overcome resistance to discussion, racial identity exploration and formation among adolescent clients.
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06/08/2020
Helping Parents Through Crises: Avoiding Pitfalls & Amplifying Opportunities
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- Devise two interventions that interrupt anxious routines in families.
- Compose three cognitive patterns to target in anxious families.
- Appraise the efficacy of utilizing a family-centred approach to working with children.
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04/06/2020
Attachment Centered Family Therapy: Interventions for Improving Parent-Child Connection and Attunement
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- Determine the principles of Attachment Theory.
- Demonstrate the PACE model to engage caregivers in effectively responding to their child(ren).
- Determine the elements of the social engagement system as it pertains to the parent child relationship.
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16/06/2020
LEGO®-Based Play Therapy Techniques: Unlocking Creativity to Strengthen Relationships, Encourage Flexible Thinking, and Promote Problem Solving
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- Appraise the history, research, and rationale of incorporating LEGO® in play therapy and counselling.
- Utilize five play therapy interventions with individuals, groups, and families.
- Differentiate when to utilize directive versus non-directive LEGO® based interventions.
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03/06/2020
Tech Addiction in Children & Adolescents: Brain-Based Interventions to Optimize Digital Health in Today’s Screen Culture
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- Formulate the neurological, dopaminergic, and hormonal/adrenal impact of screen time on children, adolescents and young adults.
- Analyze the emerging research related to behavioural interventions for technology overuse.
- Designate how tech overuse can impact pre-existing mental health disorders.
- Utilize strategies for parents/caregivers to work with problem screen usage within the home including boundaries, discipline and communication.
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19/06/2020
Crisis Teaching Strategies for Teachers and Parents During COVID-19: Successfully Transition K-12 Students to Remote/Digital Learning
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- Utilize strategies to deliver relevant, engaging and authentic learning experiences for students.
- Modify lesson plans, activities and exercises for productive, virtual and at-home learning.
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06/05/2020
Executive Function: Brain-Based Tools & Strategies to Help Kids and Families Cope with the Unexpected
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- Appraise the impact of significant, unexpected life changes on kids’ brain function.
- Implement brain-based interventions to reduce anxiety, depression, and dysregulation in kids.
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14/05/2020
Telehealth Meets Play Therapy: Treating Children and Adolescents in a Virtual Setting
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- Determine the benefits of providing play therapy on a digital platform.
- Apply directive and non-directive play therapy interventions to use in telehealth therapy sessions with children and adolescents.
- Develop interventions for challenging clinical scenarios in telehealth, including resistance and crisis intervention.
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08/05/2020
CBT Strategies for Kids and Adolescents: Supporting Students with ADHD and Anxiety
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- Determine the unique characteristics and challenges that students with anxiety or ADHD have with respect to coping with the academic and social demands of the school environment;
- Utilize evidence-based interventions to help the anxious or ADHD student make a positive adjustment to re-entering school subsequent to a prolonged absence due to COVID-19 quarantine.
- Develop interventions for teaching executive functioning skills to children and adolescents with ADHD.
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21/05/2020
Build Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth in Kids & Community: Mindfulness Practices for Therapists, Educators and Families
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- Measure the impact of stress on learning, mental health and behaviour in kids.
- Implement techniques to boost resilience following isolation.
- Integrate playful mindfulness practices to rebuild social and emotional intelligence.
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16/06/2020
Ethics with Minors: An Essential Guide for Mental Health Professionals
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- Assess select ethical and legal issues unique to working with minors.
- Determine how to effectively navigate codes of ethics, laws, and licensing rules when working with minors.
- Utilize recommended methods for reducing risk and avoiding problems.
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29/05/2020
Nutrition and Mental Health in Kids & Teens: What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know
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- Appraise the impact of the common foods of the Standard America Diet on mental health.
- Integrate nutrition-specific questions into the initial intake/assessment.
- Develop general nutritional recommendations for caregivers and families to support optimal mental health.
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08/06/2020
Navigating Youth Mental Health in Today's Educational Setting
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- Assess for achievement and determine educational placement for students.
- Formulate how disruption to a child’s schedule impacts their mental health.
- Apply emotion regulation interventions to increase focus and academic achievement.
- Demonstrate cognitive behavioural interventions to decrease symptoms of anxiety, ADHD and depression.
- Employ behavioural strategies to increase engagement with students in virtual learning settings.
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11/08/2020
Suicide and Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents: Assessment Tools and Treatment Approaches to Help Young People Heal
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- Utilize screening and assessment tools to determine which clients or students present the highest risk for suicide.
- Appraise the efficacy of utilizing a multi-systemic approach for supporting suicidal and self-harming children and adolescents.
- Integrate alternative coping strategies to help self-injuring clients or students manage triggering situations without engaging in self-harm.
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21/07/2020