Brain-Body Therapy for Kids: The Brain-Body Approach

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Mona M. Delahooke, PhD Related seminars and products

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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.

Objectives

1. Employ the “Developmental Iceberg” and how it helps us discover how to support each child and family’s individual needs.
2. Differentiate 4 proposed pathways of the nervous system that inform us what to do in real time when managing children’s behavioral challenges.
3. Argue how an understanding of neuroception and interoception is changing the meaning of clinical practice in the treatment of emotional regulation issues.
4. Assess co-regulation as a parallel process that impacts the therapist, parent, and client.

Outline

• New clinical concepts that are changing the way we treat emotion regulation issues in children
• Discovering a new paradigm for targeting behaviors: Categorical vs dimensional clinical thinking
• The four pathways of the nervous system you can use to determine how to best manage a child’s behavioral challenge
• The role of Polyvagal Theory in effective treatment of child behavioral issues
• The subconscious and conscious processes that influence social and emotional development
• Implement a model for working with anxious children and school refusal
• Limitations of the model and discuss implications of the research

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners 
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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