An exercise to improve executive function
Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
It’s helpful for children to have a strategy to think about an activity or action before they do it. Building “time to reflect” as well as “intent to act” into the thinking process is empowering. This worksheet provides an opportunity for the child to explore the parts of a task, the plan of action to complete the task and the steps to revise their approach in the future.
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Jennifer Cohen Harper, MA, E-RYT, RCYT
Get two yoga and mindfulness practices to share with the children in your life. Each exercise comes with matching coloring pages and worksheets to further enhance the experience and deepen reflection, and you can download these supporting materials for free. Don’t forget to try these out yourself as well, as we all could use some orienting and grounding no matter what our age!
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A Yoga Practice for Children with ADHD
Jennifer Cohen Harper, MA, E-RYT, RCYT
Sometimes children with ADHD just can't stop moving...Here's a quick and enjoyable strategy to help restore attention and focus.
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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
For many people who were raised in abusive, neglectful, or dysfunctional families, “you made your bed now lie in it” is a common life philosophy taught and promoted throughout childhood. But the truth is, the personal, academic, and professional decisions that met your needs 5, 10, or 20 years ago may be completely irrelevant to your life today.
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...and what you can do about it
Robert Rhoton, PsyD, LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S.
When a child with behavior challenges enters our office, we instantly go into teach mode to tell them how to change their behaviors. Why? Because we don't know what else to do.
But the child's behavior doesn't improve. It's not because they're willful, or bad, or even because they don't care. It's because the lasting impacts of trauma have the children in your practice stuck in "lizard brain." In this short video, I explain why lizard brain impacts every trauma treatment plan you create...
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Practical applications from a PESI seminar
Teresa Sadowski, MA, CCC-SLP
Teresa Sadowski has been a Speech Language Pathologist for 27 years. Join Teresa as she reviews the PESI seminar "Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Tools to improve self-regulation, learning and classroom climate" and discusses how the tools and strategies she learned can be applied to practice.
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Brené Brown on Vulnerability as a Crucial Strength
Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, Mary Sykes Wylie, Ph.D., Richard Simon, Ph.D.
Brown has taken the concepts of shame and vulnerability and turned them completely on their heads. In short, she subversively makes shame less shameful, a part of the ordinary human condition. So the question isn’t why shame, but what to do about it.
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And how you can get started today.
Joann Lutz, MSW, LICSW, E-RYT
This simple intervention can be used anytime in the session when the client feels anxious, tense, ungrounded, or in some pain, or as part of a goal of learning to connect with body sensations.
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How to guide couples through the trauma of betrayal and infidelity
John M. Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Gottman, Ph.D.
In this video, John and Julie Gottman will step you through the different phases of their Trust Revival Method to help rebuild and nurture trust in a relationship.
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A powerful art-based play therapy technique
Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S
The Inside/Outside Box is a wonderful tool that elicits powerful emotions and helps tweens and teens begin to see their whole self, creating a launching pad for blossoming self-esteem and self-worth.
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