Beyond Behaviors: Effective Neuroscience-based Tools to Transform Childhood Behaviors featuring Dr. Mona Delahooke

Objectives

Determine treatment strategies/techniques based on each individual’s emotional/ sensory/motor profile and neuroception of safety in social-emotional development.
Distinguish the difference between intentional misbehavior and stress responses.
Integrate mind and body-based techniques for the treatment of mental health, behavioral and developmental challenges.
Employ the 3-step process of personalized attunement to help children become calm and emotionally regulated.
Argue the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach to supporting social-emotional development.
Investigate the critical importance of the “therapeutic use of self” when working with children.

Outline

Module 1: Why Our Current Behavioral Approaches Miss the Mark & Fail our Kids

What really causes children to lose emotional or behavioral control?
Moving from a “fixed” mindset to a “Neurodevelopmental” mindset
Three main reasons current treatment protocols fall short
Reframing behaviors based on context and as “adaptations”
The problems with time-out, isolation, “attention-seeking behavior” and “willful disobedience”
Intentional mis-behavior or unintentional stress response?
Utilizing a developmental roadmap

Module 2: A New Way of Understanding Behavioral Problems

The “Developmental Iceberg”
4 Causes of Behavioral Problems
Utilizing the polyvagal concept of “neuroception” to understand and change behaviors
Developing neurodevelopmentally-informed treatment plans

Module 3: Underneath & Beyond Behaviors: Learning the Language of a Child’s Nervous System

Module 4: The Six Key Processes of Social & Emotional Development & DIR Therapy

Module 5: Nervous-System Based Techniques for Behavioral Change, Part 1

Module 6: Nervous-System Based Techniques for Behavioral Change, Part 2

Neurodiversity, Trauma, & ASD Examples
De-escalation strategies
Developing a child’s own strategies
Recognizing & naming autonomic states
Clinical examples
Addressing “disruptive” behaviors
Interpreting behaviors in neurodiverse individuals
Trauma & behavioral problems
Racism & its impacts on children
Analyze benefits, risks and limitations of a neuro-biologically informed treatment of behavioral disorders in children
Conclusions

Target Audience

Copyright : 11/06/2020

Oppositional Defiance or Faulty Neuroception: Disruptive Behaviors through the Lens of the Polyvagal Theory

Objectives

Categorize specific behaviors as they relate to each of the three basic pathways of the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
Utilize neuroception-informed interventions, including physiological co-regulation and interpersonal engagement, to treat oppositional behavior.
Appraise the efficacy of integrating the Polyvagal Theory into “behavior management” programs.

Outline

Behavior Challenges: Intentional Choice or Stress Response?

What the Polyvagal Theory brings to the “behavior management” table
The autonomic nervous system (ANS)
Neuroception: How children’s brains perceive safety and stress (and what that means for behavior)
Is ODD a behavior disorder, or a nervous system looking for relational safety?

Clinical Strategies for Building Relational Safety and Security

Target Audience