2-Day Advanced Training: Treating Complex Behavioral Challenges in Severely Dysregulated Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

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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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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (For the in-person event, after attendance has been verified, pre-registered attendees will need to log into their online account to complete the online evaluation. Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others. After completion of the evaluation participants can download/print their certificate of completion. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), a letter of attendance will be available in the attendee online account after completion of the evaluation. An adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be sent within 30 days (if your board allows)).

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see below.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
 

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Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

 

PESI, Inc.  is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Approved provider # 3322. This Live activity is offered at 1.25  CEUs Intermediate, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

 

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Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

This activity consists of 12.5 clock hours of instruction that is applicable for physical therapists. This certificate is proof of your attendance. Please retain it in your records or use for submission as proof of completion when required.

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Physicians

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PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

This course contains 12.5 hours of live continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.

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Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 760 continuing education minutes as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 

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Speaker

John Pagano, PhD, OTR/L Related seminars and products

Pagano FAB Strategies, LLC

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John Pagano, Ph.D., OTR/L, is an occupational therapist with over 30 years of experience in treating children, adolescents, and young adults with developmental, severe behavioral, and sensory integration problems in NICU, birth-to-three, sensory integration clinic, pre-school, school, group home, and adolescent psychiatric hospital settings. He is the owner of Pagano FAB Strategies, LLC, which provides proven approaches that simultaneously address inappropriate behavior as part of therapy, teaching, and parenting. Dr. Pagano currently is the occupational therapist at an adolescent psychiatric hospital and school and is part-time faculty in Occupational Therapy at Quinnipiac University. He integrates sensory processing, mindfulness, positive behavioral support strategies, and massage strategies to help youngsters with complex behavioral, mental health, developmental, intellectual, and sensory processing challenges.

Dr. Pagano has a Ph.D. in Marriage & Family Therapy, M.S. in Special Education and B.S. in Occupational Therapy. He has certifications in Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Movement-Based Learning, QST Massage for Autism, as well as being an instructor in Positive Behavioral Support.

Dr. Pagano presents workshops internationally to occupational, speech-language, physical, and mental health therapists as well as educators on improving self-regulation in youth with complex, behavioral, developmental, cognitive, and sensory processing challenges. He is the author of FAB Functionally Alert Behavior Strategies: Integrated Behavioral, Developmental, Sensory, Mindfulness & Massage Treatment (Pagano FAB Strategies, LLC).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: John Pagano has an employment relationship with FAB Strategies, LLC. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: John Pagano is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association.

Objectives

1. Apply the latest research on effective strategies for the treatment of children/adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and PTSD.
2. Assess and differentiate sensory integration and behavioral challenges in infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
3. Apply the assessment of sensory integration and behavioral problems to develop objective goals and apply appropriate intervention strategies addressing individual behavioral and/or sensory integration challenges.
4. Interpret and integrate sensory, preference, and behavior function assessments to improve learning and behavior.
5. Determine the most problematic environmental and body triggers for each child and the most effective coping strategies to promote self-regulation.
6. Manage sensory overload and self-injurious behaviors through a multi-disciplinary approach of positive behavior techniques and sensory modulation strategies.
7. Use sensory, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care to improve relationships and social skills.
8. Employ fun movement strategies and role-playing games to help children/adolescents understand and manage feelings and develop social skills.
9. Implement strategies to improve frustration tolerance and decrease physical and verbal aggression during individual and group treatment sessions.
10. Integrate pressure touch, environmental adaptation, and oral sensory strategies to promote self-control and calm that are effective in the clinic, classroom, or at home.
11. Develop individualized visual supports that orient children/adolescents to their daily schedules and classroom expectations.
12. Implement strategies to help children/adolescents modulate their arousal levels to decrease self-injurious behavior and suicidal ideation.

Outline

• Latest research on effective treatment strategies
• Intellectual and developmental disabilities, ASD, and PTSD
• Manage comorbid disorders and symptoms
• How to get children/adolescents to pay attention

• Identify the primary reason for a challenging behavior
• Assess sensory modulation and preferences
• Find youth’s major interests and reinforcers
• Write reports that parents and other professionals will read

• Effectively intervene when the youth first begin feeling upset
• Engaging activities to improve behavior
• Teach self-awareness of triggers and arousal level
• Manage the environment to limit and anticipate triggers
• Case Study: Adaptations to manage behavior in a Head Start Class

• Reduce visual, auditory, and tactile distractions
• Applied Behavioral Analysis using Pivotal Response Training
• Positive Behavioral Support and FAB Turtle
• Develop a sensory coping area
• Strategies for combined sensory sensitivity and trauma disorders
• Minimize self-injurious behavior
• Sensory emphasis of learning activities
• Case Study: Therapy ball activities to calm an 18-year old with ASD & Intellectual Disabilities

• Integrate trauma-informed care into all activities
• Match mindfulness strategies to attention and arousal levels
• Inclusion with integrated class, small group, and individual sessions
• Sensory strategies to improve learning and behavior
• Activities to match interest and developmental level

• Teach children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities
• Fun movement strategies to help children understand and manage feelings
• Movement breaks that improve behavior
• Role-playing games and anti-bullying techniques

• Improve relationships through positive interactions
• Decrease verbal and physical aggression
• Avoid or minimize conflicts
• Developmentally teach frustration tolerance and reinforce appropriate actions
• Case Study: Individualized activity programs for adolescents with anxiety, ODD, ASD, sensory over-sensitivity, and physical aggression

• Conditioning to calm children with intellectual disabilities
• Individualized activity program for a child you work with
• Fidgets, head phones, and adaptive equipment
• Visual supports to teach schedule, routines, and rules
• Touch for calming and improving relationships
• Case Study: Pressure touch for calming a 3 and 8-year old with ASD

• Activities to increase arousal level
• Help children recognize their need for help in avoiding aggression
• Reduce and challenge depressive thoughts using art
• Decrease self-injurious behavior and suicidal ideation
• Energy wheels of activities for improved mental health

Target Audience

• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapist Assistants
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Case Managers
• School Counselors
• School Social Workers
• School Psychologists
• Teachers
• Nurses
• School Administrators
• Educational Paraprofessionals
• Other Helping Professionals Who Work with Children 3-21 Years of Age

Location

2720 10th Ave S, Education Center 1st Floor, Great Falls, Montana 59405, United States