ODD, ASD, ADHD & Mood Disorders: Over 50 Techniques for Children & Adolescents

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Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA, LPA Related seminars and products

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Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA, LPA, is a licensed behavioral health therapist working in a private practice setting in Richmond and Lexington, KY, and a nationally recognized school consultant. Jen has 25 years of experience working with crisis management, psychological testing, inpatient/outpatient treatment, groups, families, and the court system. A tireless and passionate advocate for children and families, she developed a parent training program recognized by the Governor’s Commission for the Treatment of Children & Families and Kentucky’s Child Protective Services. Jen helped create a regional children’s crisis stabilization unit, children’s advocacy center, and an intensive after-school program for behaviorally challenged youth. She has published the Creative Parenting Handbook, Parenting Better Children, CD Awareness in Focus: Modern Guided Imagery Techniques for Immediate Practice, CD Awareness in Focus by Kids for Kids, and The Mandela Workbook: Activities Across the Lifespan.

In addition to delivering her nationally recognized training programs for PESI and keynote presentations, Jen regularly speaks on mental health issues and child abuse for Morehead State University, Eastern Kentucky University, KY Child Protective Services, and National Public Radio; as well as serving as the psychometrician for the Center for Academic and Tutoring Services (CATS) – University of Kentucky, and providing psychological evaluations and therapeutic support services for the Department of Disability Determinations and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. Jennifer consults regularly for private/state foster care organizations, social services, schools, psychiatric hospitals, Head Start programs, in-home therapy programs, and case management services. Her specialties are in the areas of child abuse, PTSD, DBT, behavioral disorders, anxiety, autistic spectrum, and attachment. Jen shares time-tested, real approaches from the trenches, using humor, energy and passion for helping others.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Wilke-Deaton has employment relationships with the University of Kentucky and Hundley Psychological Services. She receives compensation as a guest speaker. Jennifer Wilke-Deaton receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Wilke-Deaton has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Utilize over 50 proven techniques for working with kids with behavioural issues, high-functioning ASD, ADHD and mood disturbance.
2. Recommend how to promote “whole brain” change in children with verbal processing and auditory learning issues.
3. Develop tools for daily mindfulness and self-regulation practice.
4. Apply strategies to develop life skills for a wide variety of emotional disturbances and behavioural problems.
5. Implement strategies for treating intolerance, anxiety and impulsivity.
6. Dissect how to reduce power struggles & anger through CBT and validation techniques.

Outline

DSM-5® Updates & Making Effective Treatment and Academic Goals for:

• ODD/CD
• ASD
• ADHD
• Anxiety/Depression
• Trauma
• Substance Abuse

The Brain-Behaviour Connection

• Executive Functioning
• Auditory Processing
• Emotion Regulation
• Sensory-Motor

Proven Treatment Techniques for ODD

• Environmental support to increase autonomy
• Self Regulation to decrease arousal states
• Reverse aggression and inattention caused by technology and video games
• Promote healthy brain function with structured daily living practices
• Reduce power struggles and anger through CBT and validation techniques
• Foster positive peer involvement & altruism
• …and more

Proven Treatment Techniques for ASD

• Group and individual techniques for developing social skills of:
  • Improved prosody
  • Appropriate eye contact
  • Awareness of personal space
  • Effective use of gesture and posture
  • Redirection from preoccupational interests
  • Coping with transitions

Proven Treatment Techniques for ADHD

• Reduce excessive movement and climbing
• Improve executive functioning and attention to detail
• Develop an effective teaching/learning environment
• Promote fluid task shifting
• Develop “whole-brain” problem-solving skills
• Boost sensory regulation
• Effectively advocate for seating assignment, home/classwork planning, and task fatigue
• …and more

Proven Treatment Techniques for Anxiety/Depression/Trauma

• Inoculate anxiety in high pressure situations with behavioral tools
• Facilitate anxiety control and decrease escapism at school and home
• Reverse lethargy and withdrawal through CBT techniques
• Increase distress tolerance skills utilizing sensory tools and imagery
• Nurture mindfulness skills and prevent hopelessness and worthlessness
• Prioritize worries for mindfulness practice through narrative activities and engagement of acceptance and commitment
• Create hands-on tools for decreasing sensory sensitivity
• Teach body awareness

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Teachers 
• School Guidance Counselors
• Case Managers
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Educational Paraprofessionals
• School Administrators
• Nurses
• Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children

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