Teaching Children Emotional Regulation

Top Down (mental) and Bottom Up (physical)

Strategies for Therapists

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Includes:

• How to talk about emotional regulation so that kids can hear you
• How to pick which regulation programs to use with your client
• Unique benefits of both Top Down and Bottom Up strategies
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By the end of the presentation participants will:

• Describe and use a framework to organize decision making for choosing bottom up (physical) vs Top down (cognitive) strategies
• Learn over 6 new self-regulation strategies for kids 4 years and over that have frequent emotional outbursts, meltdowns and anxiety
• Describe 3 Primitive reflexes that send kids into fight/flight states
• Feel comfortable assessing for diaphragmatic breathing and learn 2 breath release techniques

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For Therapists Who:

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• Are constantly looking for new ways to reach different populations
• Working with kids that "get it" but don't "use" the tools they know
• Want to explore regulation programs before committing to training and buying materials

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Testimonial:

"Thought the emotional regulation course was a great mix of learning new content as well as strengthening my understanding of other more familiar activities/strategies I currently use. The course offered multiple chances to collaborate with other therapists across the country which was helpful and I would totally do it again!" -Autumn F OTA

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