Laura Ehlert – Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents – Reduce Frustration – Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors

Course Description

Laura Ehlert – Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents – Reduce Frustration – Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors

Laura Ehlert – Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents – Reduce Frustration – Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors

This recording will help you to better intervene with the challenging child – the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. We know this child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their behavior doesn’t reflect these positive qualities. These are the children who confuse and frustrate parents and who overwhelm teachers and peers. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are dysregulated and unable to succeed socially and academically.

Watch clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn how to effectively intervene with emotional and behavioral dysregulation using techniques that address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger them. Through discussion and hands-on activities, you will learn how to create appropriate behavioral expectations and environments that will help children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Processing Disorders.

Intervene with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to succeed at home, school and with peers!

• Recognize the signs of underlying processing deficits that lead to dysregulation
• Strategies to improve self-control, social success, emotional regulation and task completion
• Strategies to reduce frequency and duration of behavioral and emotional outbursts
• Problem-solving strategies to create positive structure and expectations, positive coping and self-regulation
• Brain training exercises that will increase self-regulation

1. Communicate how sensory, language, and executive skills impairments create fight/flight/freeze and defensive responses that lead to dysregulation and related behavioral issues in children.
2. Select the appropriate intervention strategies to improve student skills including self-control, social success, emotional regulation and task completion.
3. Employ behavior modification techniques and problem-solving strategies to diffuse students’ escalated and oppositional behavior.
4. Implement environmental strategies to accommodate children’s processing deficits and emotional regulation needs.
5. Utilize problem-solving strategies to develop appropriate behavioral expectations and coping mechanisms for improved self-regulation skills in students.
6. Apply cognitive restructuring strategies to reduce frequency, severity and duration of children’s behavioral and emotional outbursts.

Treatment Approaches Using Processing Perspectives

• improve self-regulation in children through our own paradigm shifts
• Ping + Ping + Ping = Frustration and dysregulation
• De-escalation strategies and precursors to problem-solving
• Behavioral and mindful intervention for dysregulation triggers

Sensory Deficits

• Integration, meaning and perception
• Experience your own dysregulation to sensory challenges
• Reduce sensory triggers
• Desensitize strategies to reset the -˜panic switch
• Manage the environment to reduce sensory overload

Language/Learning Deficits

• Incorporate language processing into our understanding of behavior
• Meaning = perception = reality = response
• Your emotional response to their language challenges
• Recognize, validate and problem-solve common language deficit triggers
• Social Pragmatics insight and behavior

Executive Functioning Deficits

• Impact of processing inconsistencies on daily functioning
• Experience how we might set kids up to fail without realizing it
• Problem-solving strategies to improve organization, working memory and meta-cognitive deficits
• Environments that manage fidgeting, restlessness and inattention and provide positive social-emotional regulation
• Roadblocks created by executive skills deficits

Perspective-Taking and Meaning

• The -Set-up: Child’s expectations + delayed development = failure
• Develop appropriate expectations; Pitfalls and strengths of developmental models
• Strategies for triggering triggers
• Reinforcing desired behavior using Nurtured Heart Approach

Behavioral Strategies

• Create realistic expectations through better understanding of the child’s process
• Behavior modification and skills coaching: Resetting and choices to improve self-regulation
• Environmental structures that regulate
• Empower children to improve self-regulation
• Cognitive restructuring to reduce tantrums and emotional dysregulation

Problem-Solving Strategies

• Reduce stressors
• Improve child’s acceptance and personal responsibility for behavior
• Create realistic expectations
• Learning/teaching flexibility
• Use language to self-regulate

Neuro-Biological Considerations

• Diet/food
• Supplements/vitamins
• Sensitivities/toxins
• Movement and exercise to regulate the brain