The Whole-Brain Child Approach: Develop Kids’ Minds and Integrate Their Brains for Better Outcomes – Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

Course Description

The Whole-Brain Child Approach: Develop Kids’ Minds and Integrate Their Brains for Better Outcomes – Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

Are you struggling to effectively treat behavior disorders, anxiety, and mood disorders in children and adolescents?

Join bestselling authors of  The Whole Brain Child,  Dr. Daniel Siegel, M.D.,  and  Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D, present the latest scientific research – with a special emphasis on  neuroplasticity and the changing brain  – in a way that’s clear, interesting, and immediately practical. You will learn how the role of experience and focused attention effects the ever-developing brain within children and adolescents.

Revolutionize your assessment and treatment for…

• Anxiety
• Affective Disorder
• Executive Functioning
• Disruptive Behavior Disorder
• Interpersonal Neurobiology
• Reactive and Resilient States

Using stories, case studies, practical suggestions and a lot of humor, Siegel and Bryson provide creative strategies of  how to use brain science in your practice. You will learn five different types of integration that can lead to  health and wholeness. This video will highlight types of integration and provide case examples demonstrating  practical strategies  to integrate into your practice.

Help kids acquire new tools to become resilient and feel hope about achieving lasting change in their lives. At the end of the recording, you will have a new framework for treating your clients, along with 12 Whole-Brain strategies to help kids move from reactivity to resilience.

1. Identify the framework of integration, and how it can help lead clients to health and wholeness
2. Explain how the Whole-Brain Child Approach can be used in the clinical treatment of anxiety, affective, executive function, and disruptive behavior disorders
3. Analyze the efficacy of movement as a method to shift a client’s automatic emotional and bodily responses.
4. Apply the framework of interpersonal neurobiology with pediatric and adolescent clients
5. Implement twelve Whole-Brain strategies into clinical practice
6. Show children how to take implicit memories of painful/traumatic experiences and make them explicit

Introduction-Integration as a theoretical framework
Part 1-Two Brains are Better than One: Integrate the Left and the Right

• Whole-Brain Strategy #1-Connect and Redirect:
  • Surfing Emotional Waves
• Whole-Brain Strategy #2 – Name It to Tame It:
  • Telling Stories to Calm Big Emotions and Build Resilience for Difficult Transitions

Part 2-Building the Staircase of the Mind: Integrating the Upstairs and Downstairs

• Whole-Brain Strategy #3-Engage, Don’t Enrage:
  • Appealing to the Upstairs Brain
  • Reducing flight, fight, and freeze responses and increase thinking responses
• Whole-Brain Strategy #4 – Use It or Lose It:
  • Exercising the Upstairs Brain
  • Strategies for executive function, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and oppositional defiant disorders
• Whole-Brain Strategy #5 – Move It or Lose It:
  • Moving the Body to Avoid Losing the Mind
  • Using movement to shift automatic emotional and bodily responses

Part 3-Kill the Butterflies! Integrating Memory for Growth and Healing

• Whole-Brain Strategy #6 – Use the Remote of the Mind:
  • Replaying Memories to Resolve Little Traumas and Big Traumas
• Whole-Brain Strategy #7 – Remember to Remember:
  • Making Recollection a Part of Daily Life
  • Creating new neural connections for self-identity formation

Part 4-The United States of Me: Integrating the Many Parts of Myself

• Whole-Brain Strategy #8 – Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By:
  • Teaching that Feelings Come And Go
• Whole-Brain Strategy #9 – SIFT: Paying Attention to What’s Going On Inside
  • Tools for improving self-awareness and insight
• Whole-Brain Strategy #10 – Exercise Mindsight:
  • Intervention for anxiety and mood disorders

Part 5-The Me-We Connection: Integrating Self and Other

• Whole-Brain Strategy #11 – Increase the Family Fun Factor:
  • Creating new family dynamics
• Whole-Brain Strategy #12 – Connect Through Conflict:
  • Teaching Kids to Argue with a -We in Mind
  • Expressing feelings appropriately in ways that improve relationships