Calming Challenging Behavior
Your Course Description
Behavioral Intervention
- Understanding the ‘brain on fire’ reactions that drive anger, anxiety, and power struggles is the foundation for interventions that calm challenging behaviors.
- Using effective connection strategies, you can help young people articulate what’s going on inside. And you can share these tools and strategies with parents as well to support more positive interactions outside of your program.
- This training offers a practical approach, grounded in brain science, mindfulness, and positive youth development. Having more knowledge and skills to avoid frustration and stress will reenergize you for this important work.
Your Learning Objectives
- Understand how the brain contributes to anger, anxiety, and power struggles
- Learn how mirror neurons work and how to use them to shift a youth’s challenging behavior
- Discover the best connection strategy to help young people develop self esteem
- Be able to use parent-friendly phrases that improve communication and motivate positive interactions at home
Your Course Details
- Completion Certificate
- Youth Worker Track
- This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.
Your Trainer

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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Behavior Management
Encouraging behaviors that are better choices
Communication
Listening and speaking to deeply connect
Emotional Regulation
Helping young people to manage emotions
Youth Development
Inspiring young people to thrive
Relationship Building
Building trust through caring relationships
What YIPA members are saying
The presenter was so easy to listen to and provided great real life, hands-on strategies that were very applicable to youth work.
Loved this facilitator. Great tips on how to work with youth AND families.
This was a great training and helped reaffirm the work I'm doing with youth who have gone through trauma. This training also helped me understand how to explain these concepts to volunteers and other people working with youth!