Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection to Build Resilient and Regulated Young Clients

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Mona M. Delahooke, PhD Related seminars and products

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Mona M. Delahooke, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who’s worked with multi-disciplinary teams for over 30 years. A senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, she’s the author of the national bestseller Brain-Body Parenting, How to Stop Managing Behaviors and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids,. and the award-winning Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Mona Delahooke maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, the Profectum Foundation, and Villa Esperanza Services. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Delahooke receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Mona Delahooke is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Zero to Three Foundation, the Infant Development Association of California, and the Partnership for Awareness.

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Objectives

1. Explain the “Developmental Iceberg” and how it helps us discover how to support each child and family’s individual needs. 
2. Summarize four proposed pathways of the nervous system that inform us what to do in real time when managing children’s behavioral challenges.  
3. Describe how an understanding of neuroception and interoception is changing the meaning of clinical practice in the treatment of emotional regulation issues. 
4. Illustrate how co-regulation is a parallel process that impacts the therapist, parent, and client. 

Outline

• Discover how to support each child and family’s individual needs 
• Difference between categorical and dimensional clinical thinking  

• Know what to do in real time when managing children’s behavioral challenges 
• Polyvagal theory and a paradigm shift towards holistic thinking in mental health 
• Limitations of the model and the research and implications  

• Changing the meaning of clinical practice in the treatment of emotional regulation issues 
• Subconscious and conscious processes that influence social and emotional development, psychological symptoms, and brain/body health 
• Examples in treatment of childhood anxiety, social anxiety and school refusal  

Co-regulation Is a Parallel Process That Impacts the Therapist, Parent, and Client 

• What co-regulation is 
• How it influences the building of resilience and eventual self-regulation and executive functioning 
• The importance of an integrated approach in child psychotherapy 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• School Administrators
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel
• Other Mental Health Professionals