The Importance of Looking Beyond Behaviors to Support Children’s Social and Emotional Development
This training will introduce a new approach to solving young children’s behavioral challenges, focusing on building a child’s foundation for emotional and behavioral control and moving beyond paradigms that focus on compliance and surface behaviors.
Dr. Delahooke will describe behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the overarching context of relational safety.
As a result of this workshop, participants will:
1. Understand the “Developmental Iceberg” and how it helps us discover how to support each child and family’s individual needs
2. Understand the 3 main states of the nervous system that inform us what to do in real time when managing children’s behavioral challenges.
3. Describe how caregivers, providers and teachers can use the “therapeutic use of self” when working with vulnerable children, regardless of their diagnosis.