Calming Challenging Behavior

Your Course Description

Behavioral Intervention
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  • 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

  • Icon Completion Certificate
  • Icon Youth Worker Track
  • Icon 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

Reviewer Photo Samantha Moe and Associates provides continuing education, advanced training, and parent coach certification for family service professionals who support intense kids and their families. Certified parent coach and speaker Samantha Moe has coached parents on how to help their children calm, connect, and cooperate since 2004. She is the creator of the Mad to Glad Blueprint, a revolutionary brain-and-nervous-system-based approach to positive communication and parenting that works to soothe and prevent intense kids’ most challenging behaviors. Samantha holds a Master’s degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Minnesota and possesses a background in interdisciplinary training in sensory integration, play therapy, and emotional integration. Find out more about upcoming talks, trainings, and workshops at www.samanthamoe.com.
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Your Skill-Building Objectives

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Behavior Management

Encouraging behaviors that are better choices

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Communication

Listening and speaking to deeply connect

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Emotional Regulation

Helping young people to manage emotions

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Youth Development

Inspiring young people to thrive

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Relationship Building

Building trust through caring relationships

What YIPA members are saying

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The presenter was so easy to listen to and provided great real life, hands-on strategies that were very applicable to youth work.

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Loved this facilitator. Great tips on how to work with youth AND families.

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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!