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Digital Seminar

Mindfulness Toolkit for Kids & Teens: Skills to Teach Your Clients


Speaker:
Debra Burdick, LCSW, BCN
Duration:
6 Hours 10 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 03, 2012
Product Code:
POS061210
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Finally, the Mindfulness Skills that have helped millions of adults improve their health, happiness, and relationships have been adapted for children and teens. This workshop recording will teach you well established mindfulness skills for helping children and teens improve concentration, emotion regulation, resilience to stress, and positive mind set. You will personally experience the process of doing each of the skills and processing your own results that you can apply to your work with your clients. You will learn a proven 4 step process for integrating Mindfulness into your practice. You will learn the Neurobiology behind Mindfulness and simple ways to explain this to children. The speaker incorporated Mindfulness Skills into her practice with adults and children after she used them to heal from a chronic illness and taught them to her daughter to help with ADHD and sleep. This seminar recording will focus on experiential learning and will include PowerPoint slides, and case examples.

Credit


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Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


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Speaker

Debra Burdick, LCSW, BCN Related seminars and products


Debra Burdick, LCSW, BCN, also known as ‘The Brain Lady’, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a board certified neurofeedback practitioner. Debra is an international speaker and author of the best-selling books Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets (PESI, 2013), Mindfulness Skills for Kids & Teens: A Workbook for Clinicians & Clients with 154 Tools, Techniques, Activities and Worksheets (PESI, 2014), ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens (PESI, 2015) and Mindfulness Skills for Kids: Card Deck and 3 Card Games (PESI, 2017). She has taught mindfulness skills to her clients for over 25 years. 

She recently retired from her private practice, and previously worked at the Child Guidance Clinic, Family Services, Child and Family Agency, and Lawrence and Memorial Hospital. 

Debra incorporates mindfulness skills in all areas of her practice. She initially became interested in mindfulness to deal with a chronic illness (now thankfully healed). She found it so helpful in her own life that she started teaching her clients the skills she was using. She went on to develop clinical material on mindfulness skills and created a four-step process for working with clients using mindfulness that she perfected in her private practice and in an intensive outpatient program. Her clients have shown her that mindfulness skills improve the rate and quality of treatment outcomes.

Debra has presented numerous presentations, workshops, and teleseminars. She is often interviewed on Internet radio and telesummits and her work has been featured in The Day newspaper, Self-Improvement Magazine, and “Parenting Powers” television show.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Debra Burdick maintains a private practice.  She is an author for Vervante publishers and receives royalties.  She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Burdick contributes to SelfGrowth.com and receives no compensation. 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Counselors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Understand the neurobiology behind mindfulness and be able to explain it in simple terms kids and teens will understand
  2. Explain basics of mindfulness programs being used for kids and teens in therapy and schools such as MBSR, MBCT, DBT, MindUp, Inner Kids, Learning to Breathe
  3. Experience specific mindfulness skills that work for kids and teens
  4. Implement a proven 4 step process to integrate mindfulness into your practic
  5. Improve treatment outcomes for kids and teens who experience anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, poor emotional regulation, ADHD, behavior problems, sleep disorders and more
  6. Identify and address obstacles and resistance to mindfulness in parents and client

Outline

Neurobiology of Mindfulness
  • Changes the brain
  • Neurobiology of mindfulness - in children’s language, too
  • Mindfulness Research with kids
Mindfulness Strategies for Specific Stages of Childhood
  • Explaining it to kids and teens
  • Developmental level
  • Cognitive level
  • Attentional capabilities
  • Relevance
  • Emotion regulation
  • Parent involvement
  • Introspection, stories, play, activities, practice
  • Getting clients and parents to buy into the practice of mindfulness
Basic Concepts and Comparison of Various Mindfulness Programs
  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • MindUP Program
  • Inner Kids Program
  • Learning to Breathe - A mindfulness curriculum for adolescents
4 Steps to Integrate Mindfulness in Practice
  • Introduce, explain and practice the skills with your client
  • Strategies for processing what happens with your client
  • Techniques to increase client use of mindfulness at home
  • Identify and overcome obstacles and resistance
Mindfulness Skills - Adapted for kids and teens
  • Mindful greeting, setting intention
  • Mindful breath - bubbles ,flowers, candles, balloons
  • Core practice
  • Present moment awareness
  • Mindful: listening, seeing, tasting, smelling, movement
  • Mindfulness of: Thoughts, feelings, physical body
  • Mindfulness of tasks
  • Journaling
  • Mindful kindness - friendly wishes
Using Mindfulness to Effect Change
  • Ethics: who should teach mindfulness
  • Incorporating mindfulness into your Life
  • Incorporating mindfulness into your practice
Case Studies
  • Examples from practice
  • How kids and teens used mindfulness for anxiety, depression, ADHD

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