The Bridge From Rage To
Reason: Coaching Traumatized Children to Think Before They Act
Using a simple model of the
brain, participants will learn how to help children and
adolescents move from an emotional reaction to a thinking
response. This will include the following: 1) The psych/social
factors necessary before a constructive response to discipline can
occur. 2) How trauma and loss create "futureless" thinking and
self-defeating decision making. 3) To recognize how adult
communication styles encourage or discourage behavior compliance.
4) How to counteractt "futureless" thinking by teaching children
how to connect here and now behavioor with future consequences. 5)
How to create a behavior change plan which teaches new and healthy
behavior skills instead of relying on ineffective punishment to
change behavior. 6) How to recognize emotional antecedents and
origins of negative behavior and initiate effective intervention
strategies. 7) How to identify behavior incentives and
consequences most likely to effect change. 8) How to "walk them
through the thinking process" using a communication method that
encourages appropriate behavior and positive decision making. 9)
How recognize and respond effectively to defiance, resistance or
incompetence when behavior change does not occur. 10) How to
recognize and respond effectively to signs of personal or
professional burn-out.
Treating Out-of-Control
Behavior
A critical look at the details of
a specific out-of-control incident will provide the clinician with
invaluable information for the development of effective
intervention strategies. Using case studies, this program will
focus on identifying the often-overlooked issues that underlie or
prompt angry outbursts or other forms of out-of-control behavior
in children or adolescents. Detailed debriefing techniques
designed to uncover hidden “triggers” for out-of-control behavior
will be discussed as well as a variety of creative intervention
strategies. OBJECTIVES: Participants will learn to: Use a simple
graphic construct of the brain to help patients understand the
different brain functions related to emotions, cognition and the
ability to conceptualize future consequences. How social history,
genetics and certain neurological disorders damage a child’s
ability to conceptualize future. How to determine the “behavior
age” of a child/adolescent. How to communicate the goal and
function of the debriefing process to children and families. How
to structure an effective debriefing process. How to ask the
uncommon questions, which reveal the precise emotional or
cognitive underpinning of the out-of-control behavior. How to
avoid questions and comments that will derail the debriefing
process. How to utilize debriefing data to identify precise coping
skills training needed to prompt successful behavior change. How
to integrate the findings of the debriefing procedure into the
treatment process.
Motivating the Unmotivated
Effectively motivating and
encouraging unmotivated youth to succeed is a learned skill. This
program provides youth workers with strategies for positively
engaging the “just doesn’t care” youth. Understanding what is
important to an youth and communicating their value to you and the
community will encourage them to work well and productively. The
KCRR method taught in this workshop enables youth workers to
develop an individualized motivational strategy for each youth.
Therapeutic Interventions
for the Chronically Disruptive Juvenile Offenders
The Family Is the Secret:
Social History Training
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