Walk away with practical, ready-to-use strategies for meltdowns, shutdowns, elopement, and aggression.
You’ve tried everything – but some kids still lash out, shut down, bolt, throw chairs, scream, or hit.
These aren’t just “challenging behaviors” – they’re survival responses from nervous systems stuck in distress.
What if the issue isn’t a lack of tools, but a fragmented approach that overlooks the deeper causes?
Today’s kids face complex dysregulation rooted in trauma, sensory challenges, executive functioning delays, anxiety, and neurodivergence.
And traditional methods often fall short, leaving these kids misunderstood, labeled and underserved.
This transformative training with Tere Brown-Irish, OTR/L – creator of the Drive Thru Menu Suite of Exercises – introduces a polyvagal- and sensory-informed framework to address behavior at its root: through connection, regulation, and a whole-child approach.
Designed for occupational therapists, mental health clinicians, educators, and other child-serving professionals, this course offers a practical, compassionate path forward for even the most reactive, aggressive, or withdrawn children.
You’ll discover:
This course won’t just expand your toolbox – it will help you organize it into a powerful, integrated system to support the kids who need it most.
Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.
CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements.
There may be an additional fee for CE certificates. Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details.
**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 professions standards.
Tere Bowen-Irish, OTR/L, has over 45 years of experience as an occupational therapist, specializing in psychiatry and pediatrics across hospital, school-based, and private practice settings. Through her practice, All the Possibilities, she provides consultation, evaluation, treatment, and education to support the functional and emotional well-being of children of all abilities. Tere has delivered continuing education nationally for over two decades, sharing practical, strengths-based strategies with therapists, educators, health professionals, and parents. She is also a certified YogaKids instructor and Mindful Schools Educator. Her publications include the Drive thru Menu Suite of Exercises, Yoga and Me, Come Be a Tree, and My Mindful Music (coauthored with Maryann Harman). Currently, she offers therapy and mindfulness instruction – often with the help of two canine companions – at a therapeutic school serving students unable to attend public school.
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Getting the Root of Behavior
Communication, Not Defiance
The Role of the Brain & Nervous System
Trauma, Stress and the Developing Brain
Preventative Interventions
Setting the Stage for Success
Acute Interventions
Responding in the Moment
The Human Element in Intervention
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