STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Autism: De-Escalate Meltdowns and Diffuse Explosive Behaviors in Children and Adolescents - Live Webinar
2023-11-03 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Do you work with children and adolescents with autism who exhibit explosive behaviors that interfere with their ability to effectively and efficiently navigate their environment? They appear willful, obnoxious, over reactive, and unfeeling. They lose control of their ability to cope or regulate their behavior, which can send them spiraling into a gut wrenching meltdown.
Join autism expert Joe’l Farrar, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, BCBA, for this live webcast and learn proven strategies and techniques to help children and adolescents with autism de-escalate before a full blown meltdown ensues, develop self-control and self-management skills to prevent future meltdowns and learn appropriate/replacement behaviors. Dozens of strategies will be taught through dynamic video case examples and demonstrations. “Teach them in the way they learn” will be a mantra throughout the program.
Walk away with these interventions and more:

Breathe card and emotions chart to develop self-control and self-management skills
Surprise cards, change of schedule cues, and transition markers to alleviate anxiety
Video modeling and role playing to improve social/emotional communication
First person stories and visual cues to promote positive behavior
Visual cues, music, and software designed to increase attention and focus
Social stories, social scripts, and emotions charts to develop self-regulation
SOCCSS, keychain rules, and t-charts to target challenging behaviors

Supporting Self-Regulation Development in Young Children - Webinar
2023-11-02 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Phoenix)
Childhood development is a dynamic process that starts in-utero with neurological connections influenced by internal and external factors to support growth. Self-regulation skills are a cornerstone of development that help children succeed when they have a sense of control and confidence through predictable routines and communicated expectations. Co- regulation involves a complex process of observing subtle cues in children, understanding a child’s body language and responding to the child’s needs in a prompt and consistent manner with intentional and focused interactions. The early years are a critical period where the brain has the ability to change, relearn and strengthen important connections when a child is engaged in rich experiences and interactions. Strategies will be covered to provide children with the building blocks they need for a strong foundation of self- regulation skills and executive function to foster independence, ability to cope and good decision-making skills. Self-regulation skills are imperative for development of emotional intelligence, academic achievement, positive social relationships and life-long transitions.
This course will review how to integrate evidence-based strategies into daily activities to encourage positive interactions in a variety of environments based on child’s unique needs. As providers, we need to respect family priorities with goal development and plan of care, with attention to cultural sensitivity and the impact of adverse childhood experiences. Coaching strategies will be reviewed to help empower families to support self-regulation skills throughout the early years.
Highlights

Strategies to support child development sequences through natural learning opportunities
Providing children with a sense of security and belonging through daily interactions and meaningful experiences to promote trust and self-confidence
Encouraging consistency with daily routines to best support child success – allowing flexibility as needed with individualized treatment planning with family identified priorities
Evidence-based coaching strategies and reflective practice to empower families and caregivers in a variety of environments

“Break Through” Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges - Live Webinar
2023-11-02 08:00 - 16:00, 2023-09-22 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Message from Your Presenter …
No one ever said that working with children with autism, ADHD or sensory disorders is easy. Theo will only eat white foods, tends to be buried in his own world and melts when he is transitioned too quickly. Steven, in 6th grade, has ADHD, poor organization skills and an attitude that is hard to break through. But, how do we help a child break through the self-regulation issues that limit their achievements?
That was the question I posed to myself twelve years ago. I set out to learn as much as I could about theories, techniques, and research that could help make the lives of these young people much more manageable and promising. I took intensive courses on multi-sensory approaches, sensory integration, self-regulation, yoga, autism, ADHD and became a Certified Autism Specialist in 2016. I have extensive experience adapting these techniques to make them usable in a variety of settings while working closely with teachers, aides, child study professionals and parents.
Join me as I guide you through a broad set of self-regulation interventions culled from my years of research and practice along with strategies for adapting them to your setting. You will leave my program with the essential skills, interventions and strategies to help children find harmony with themselves, their families and the world around them!
You will learn:

The most effective calming, sensory, motor or behavioral techniques for a given type of behavior
Peer-to-peer video feedback as a social intervention for children and teens with ASD
Sleep interventions for children with erratic sleep schedules
Interventions for Repetitive and Restrictive Behaviors for a child with stereotypy
Organization strategies for home and school for teenagers with ADHD
And more!

I look forward to seeing you there! Register today!

Nutrition Management for Patients with ADHD - Webinar
2023-11-02 06:00 - 08:00 (America/Phoenix)
Research shows that protein promotes alertness in the brain. Carbohydrates do the opposite and artificial colors or flavors are even worse. This course will discuss the latest brain research and evidence-based best practices regarding diet and nutrition to get kids and adults motivated, focused, organized, and performing closer to their true potential. Byrecognizing how the brain works in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) along with the executive function relationship, participants will be able to better identify a variety of interventions that can positively influence symptoms of ADHD in your patients. Diet, nutrition, and environmental influences will be covered and their role in the focus of brain development and overall health.
Highlights

Confidently speak with your patients and parents onnutrition and general nutritional recommendations set forth by the FDA
Enhance your patient’s focus by adding a nutritional component to your overall plan of care

Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD) - Webinar
2023-11-01 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Research suggests that up to 38% of the generalpopulation has an Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder (OMD). Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders are atypical, adaptive patterns of the orofacial mechanism in response to suboptimal cranio and dento-facial development. These disorders can affect individuals across the lifespan and can have negativeconsequences on overall health. Since they are a multifactorial problem, intervention requires an integrated,multidisciplinary team approach. In this course, rehab professionals will learn the causes of OMDs, how to identifysigns and symptoms, consequences of untreated OMDs, andthe essential role they play in optimizing their patients’ airwayhealth.
Highlights

Review common signs and symptoms of Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD) and their impact on health
Identify potential deleterious consequences ofundiagnosed Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD)

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health - Live Webinar
2023-11-01 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Diet is an often-ignored aspect of the prevention of poor mental health and the promotion of good emotional health. The causes of behavioral health problems are complex, and nutrition is a valuable yet often missing piece of the puzzle to help clients improve their emotional state.
Imagine if you could feel more confident talking with clients about nutrition from a therapist’s point of view, and do so while adhering to our ethical code.
Kathleen Zamperini, LPC, NCGC-1, CMHIMP, brings a unique perspective as a licensed professional counselor with a degree in nutrition and certification with the Mental Health Integrative Medical Institute. She uses the language of a therapist to explain key concepts of integrating a cognitive behavioral approach with nutritional strategies to improve treatment outcomes.
Discover the clinical applications to transform the way your clients view food and revolutionize your clinical toolbox to ethically educate clients about nutrition and how they can make lasting changes.

Cognitive Development for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Webinar
2023-10-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) encourages the use of evidence-based practice in clinical decision-making; however, recent surveys show that most clinicians report they do not have the time to researchtopics. Autism research has doubled over the past decade and with advances in neuroimaging, we now know which neurological differences can predict future language development. Participants who attend this course will have the opportunity to evaluate research from multiple disciplines and develop an understanding of how neurodivergent brains process input differently during sensitive periods in language development.
Highlights

Examine how neurodivergent brains process input differently during sensitive periods in language development
Recognize how key mechanisms that lead tolanguage development in typically developing infants do not necessarily lead to the same outcomes for autistic infants
Debunk neuromyths that may be impacting your sessions and extract neuro facts within these myths

Interventions for Children with Limited or Absent Verbal Communication - Webinar
2023-10-26 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
This course will review the components of visual supports/tools as strategies for improving client participation. In addition, we will review the fundamentals of Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) to better engage clients with limited/absent verbal communication. The functions of behavior combined with the completion of a reinforcer assessment will improve client motivation and strengthen the rapport between therapist and client. The course will review the importance of considering sensory integration dysfunction as an integral area to be addressed in collaboration with the occupational therapist. This workshop will give therapists an understanding of the complex needs of our clients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and help create an inclusive and multi-disciplinary approach to treatment.
Highlights

Immediately improve your clients’ functional communication skills using practical techniques
Practical behavioral strategies for therapy and evaluation sessions that you can use the next day
Examine how sensory integration, behavior management, and functional communication needs affect your client’s performance in therapy
Effective, evidence-based tools to help build compliance & client engagement during sessions
Increase understanding of the complex needs of our clients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders - Live Webinar
2023-10-26 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
What do you do with anxiety and trauma clients who do not improve?
The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity, freeing a path for spontaneous insights and clearer thinking.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a comprehensive mind-body treatment that desensitizes three areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions. EFT combines physical interventions derived from restorative (self-applied) acupressure theory with cognitive interventions.
EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level in the EFT group (Energypsych.org). EFT is an effective brief therapy and belongs in every therapist’s tool box.
Transform your clinical excellence. Bring EFT into your practice and treat resistant problems that other methods failed.
This seminar focuses on cutting-edge techniques of EFT to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders, including:

Phobias
Generalized Anxiety
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic
OCD
Acute Traumatic Stress Reactions

These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs, and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes.

Big Behaviors in small containers: 50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation - Live Webinar
2023-10-23 07:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Do parents come to you labeling their children as Manipulative, Out-of-Control, Disobedient, or Shut Down?
Believe it or not, you don’t need superhero powers to see the vulnerable, dysregulated child within.
This workshop will offer practical, fun, and immediately useful play therapy interventions for engaging the family in treatment planning and goal setting, augmenting adaptive coping, enhancing the healthy attachment between parent and child, help shift paradigms around problematic child behaviors and powerfully explain the stress response system.
Interventions for helping clients practice anger management, expand their emotional literacy, practice pro-social skills with family and friends, address their problematic thought life, and increase coherence in their narratives around hard things that have happened.

FREE PD OPPORTUNITY: Assistive Technology (AT) Consideration and Assessment Made Easy with Penny Reed - Live
2023-10-19 08:30 - 15:30 (America/Phoenix)
Greetings.
The ADE/ESS Assistive Technology Team is pleased to announce our AT Builders Fall series kickoff presentation: “Assistive Technology Consideration and Assessment Made Easy” with Penny Reed, Ph.D. This presentation is intended for special education administrators, special education teachers, general education teachers, OTs, PTs, SLPs, and Assistive Technology Specialists.
Date/Time: Thursday, October 19, 2023
8:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. (Seats are limited; register now!)

Fee: Free (lunch on your own)
Where: Helios Education Foundation
15002 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85032

Penny Reed, PhD, is an independent consultant in AT services and provides training on a variety of topics related to AT with a special focus on improving delivery of AT services. Dr. Reed has a BS in elementary education, an MS and PhD in special education, and certification as both a principal and special education administrator. She was the director of the Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative (WATI) for many years and serves on the Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology (QIAT) Leadership Team. She is a founding member of the QIAT Consortium, the National Assistive Technology in Education Network, and the Coalition for Assistive Technology in Oregon. Dr. Reed has authored and co-authored numerous articles and manuals, including her most recent publication, Best Practices in Special Education: A Framework for Assistive Technology (2022), co-authored with Gayl Bowser.
Workshop Description:
Are you confused about your responsibility to provide assistive technology devices and services?
Are you frustrated with delays in obtaining AT assessments from sources outside of your district or the cost of those assessments?
Are you looking for an efficient, effective way to determine a student’s need for Assistive Technology?
Then this workshop is for you.
Assistive Technology Consideration and Assessment Made Easy
This activity-packed workshop will present a team-based model for completing assistive technology (AT) consideration and assessment. It begins with a brief overview of the laws related to the provision of AT services in the schools, including AT Consideration and Assessment. Participants will examine and discuss AT Consideration forms to determine what works for them. Then, an AT Assessment process will be explained. Specific, easy-to-follow forms will be provided. Participants will use the forms for guided practice in completing the AT Assessment process. The training will end with pointers for implementation planning. It is most beneficial if participants can attend as a team.
Register for Assistive Technology Consideration and Assessment Made Easy.
If you have questions regarding this training, please email ATinfo@azed.gov
Thank you.

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2023-10-19 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Attend this seminar and learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your client’s most challenging behaviors including:

Tantrums
Running out/away
Noncompliance
Nagging
Refusing to work/help
Yelling/screaming
Bullying
Panic/anxiety reactions
Lack of follow through
Not following directions

You will walk away with immediate strategies for out of control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Robert Marino is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action oriented handouts, you will leave this seminar with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.

#7318 Types of Play that Build Learning Connections - Live Webinar
2023-10-18 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Phoenix)
#7318 Types of Play that Build Learning Connections
Summary: For children, play is learning, especially when the play is structured to engage and connect them to meaningful thought. This course will explore various types of play and activities to elicit learning. No toy bag…. no problem. The instructor, an experienced play therapist, will share ideas for finding the best toy for the child you’re working with. Learn evidence-based strategies to engage in different types of play, including food play for picky eaters. Topics will also include outdoor play, sensory play, and music play. Learn some new ways to make toys from household items. You will also learn strategies for transitions in-between activities to keep children engaged.
Instructor: Pamela Orf ITFS, PLAY home consultant

Social Media, Reality TV & Influencer Culture: CBT, EFT, and More for Enhanced Treatment of Clients Impacted by Toxic Content - Live Webinar
2023-10-13 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Creating lasting change in therapy is hard work – especially when your client is distracted, disengaged, or lacks the necessary skills to retain therapeutic interventions…
If you’re struggling to make progress with your young clients, you’re not alone! Social media, reality TV, and influencer culture immersion have caused a critical thinking drought. And it’s making therapy harder.
Understanding how social media and reality television impact your clients – decreased self-esteem, increased anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation − is vital for the whole picture of mental health and has a direct impact on you as the professional.
Join Janine Oliver, PhD, LCSW, clinician and researcher of reality tv and social media, as she demonstrates the connection to critical thinking decline and shares ways to improve your efforts as a therapist to make your interventions more effective, efficient, and durable. You’ll get:

Strategies to sustain lasting critical thinking skills
Confidence grounded in new skills and research to navigate social media and reality tv
Proven strategies to enhance engagement and problem-solving to help your client come up with their own solutions
Exercises and assessment tools to build resilience and grit to enhance clients critical thinking

Register now and walk away confident and grounded in new skills and research to navigate social media, virtual reality and external influences impacting people today!

Suicide and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Effective Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Young People in Crisis - Live Webinar
2023-10-12 06:00 - 14:00, 2023-09-28 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Helping young people heal is your greatest reward.
But when treating adolescents with depression, anxiety, and trauma the full extent of their suffering is not always obvious. Many in distress wear a mask of strength while secretly harming themselves or hiding their struggle with thoughts of suicide. You worry that you could be missing critical signs.
This seminar will provide you with the assessment tools you need to unmask self-harming and suicidal thoughts, adapt interventions from DBT and CBT to work with the distinct challenges of treating suicidal and self-harming adolescents, and manage the specific confidentiality and liability issues that accompany working with minors.
There’s too much at stake to be unprepared!
Sign up today and leave this critical program confident and capable in using these vital assessment tools and treatment techniques to bring hope and healing to vulnerable young clients!

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health -Live Webinar
2023-10-11 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)

Smartphone Addiction: Clinical Tools for Tech-related Anxiety, Depression and More - Live Webinar
2023-10-10 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Smartphone and internet overuse can be heavily implicated in anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and stress.
…and 67% of your clients are compulsively checking their smartphones for alerts, calls, and texts
…even without getting a notification.
Clinical training never taught us how to handle toxic relationships with devices.
That’s why industry leaders, Nina Hersher, MSW, and Nadja Streiter, LMSW, have developed a 1-day training that will leave you feeling confident and skilled that you are fully addressing the effects of technology use with your clients.
Best of all, the learning will be fun and easy—including use of case studies, activities, visual tools, and experiential exercises. Walk-away knowing exactly how to help clients:

Understand how their mental health is connected to their digital use, so they buy into the process
Implement psychosocial interventions to experience more energy and focused attention
Recognize the insidious nature of social media’s comparison culture and turn towards their life again
Develop a step-by-step plan for flourishing in a digital world

Become more skilled addressing tech-related issues in session, register now!

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes - Live Webinar
2023-10-09 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
How many of your clients have sleep issues?
Or maybe the real question is how many of your clients don’t?
Where we used to think mental health problems caused insomnia, we now know that the relationship is more circular than casual. Risky and addictive, drugs aren’t the answer. But without addressing sleep issues, and intervening in this vicious cycle, your treatment plans for mental health issues will likely be less effective and yield less successful outcomes.
You CAN help your clients improve their sleep and make your treatment of mental health issues more effective than ever before … and you don’t need to be a sleep expert to do it!
Whether you work with anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar, or any other disorders, this one-day training will give you the sleep assessment tools and treatment techniques you need to guide clients out of their sleep-deprived world so you can improve clinical outcomes.
Attend this training and discover how you can:

Naturally improve sleep in clients without the use of addictive medication
Identify sleep disorders and differentiate them from mental health symptoms
Improve sleep for clients of all ages – from kids to adults
Snap clients out of sleep-depriving habits with behavior-changing exercises

Sign up today and add a new tool to your toolbox to bring greater healing to your clients through the power of sleep!

# 306 CAN-EAT Approach …Using medical, motor, & therapy strategies in pediatric feeding - Webinar
2023-10-06 10:00 - 2023-10-07 18:00 (America/Denver)
Pediatric feeding and swallowing problems that effect infants and children may be complex and often involve a combination of factors including issues that can make eating painful or difficult. In order to successfully remediate feeding problems, clinicians must understand how medical and nutritional issues can contribute to feeding disorders and use a comprehensive approach to intervention. The CAN-EAT Approach© is a 2-day workshop focusing on medical, nutritional, and therapeutic strategies for children with pediatric feeding disorders.

This course will allow participants to describe how pediatric feeding disorders are defined in the literature, what the contributing factors include, and how this relates to clinical practice. Identify primary gastrointestinal issues (gastroesophageal reflux, constipation, motility disorders, eosinophilic esophagitis, and visceral hyperalgesia) during a feeding evaluation and explain how these issues affect a child’s feeding skill development and ability to progress. Participants will analyze a child’s oral motor function and apply the knowledge in treatment making recommendations for appropriate diet, utensil use, and development of a therapy plan for skill development. Identify signs and symptoms of pharyngeal dysphagia or risk for pharyngeal dysphagia in a child and make appropriate recommendations for further assessment or treatment. Analyze moderate and complex pediatric feeding cases identifying barriers to feeding progression and apply principles to prioritize treatment strategies and write appropriate goals. Describe and apply examples of therapeutic techniques to reduce gagging, improve liquid and food acceptance, improve chewing skill, and wean from a feeding tube.

In the CAN-EAT Approach© “CAN” stands for comfort and nutrition which come first. Day one will focus on strategies to build GI comfort and good growth as well as explore other medical issues that interfere with feeding progression. Day two will focus on therapeutic strategies from a variety of philosophies. “EA” represents establishing acceptance of the spoon, easy textures or mealtime routine. Then “T” stands for therapy for skill development and feeding progression. Therapeutic strategies for common feeding problems will be explored in depth through lecture and video demonstration.

Information is applicable to infants and children from birth to 21 (class will discuss infants but is not focused on infant feeding issues)

Instructor: KRISTEN BRACKETT, MS, SLP/CCC

A Guide to Functional Support for Lip and Tongue-Ties - Webinar
2023-10-06 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Phoenix)
This course gives you the clinical competence to rule out tethered oral tissues when working with feeding (and speech)clients across the lifespan. Clinicians who have advanced training in identifying tongue-ties, refer to appropriate providers, and have a systematic way to complete education to the client/child/caregiver will become a valued resource within their community. This workshop will teach you how to identify when a tongue-tie is causing a functional impact, improve your decision-making process about when to refer, and how to support your client through the healing process. Bring your gloves, “Big Mouth/Mighty Mouth”, a straw, and water for demonstrations of strategies to improve awareness of appropriate placement/swallow patterns for speech and feeding and assess tongue movement during the swallow. After completing this course, you will bring advanced knowledge of swallow function, speech placement, and oral rest postures back to your clinic/hospital, which will lead to improved outcomes for your clients!
Highlights

Effective assessment tools for identifying the functional impact of tongue-ties in relation to infant feeding, toddler feeding, adult feeding, and speech
Recommendations for emotional support to guide your clients through what to expect at an age-appropriate level
Positive outcomes can be expected due to the overall improved understanding of anatomy, function, and the frenectomy process

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2023-10-06 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging child—the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”. They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. We know this child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their behavior doesn’t reflect these positive qualities. These are the children who confuse and frustrate parents and who overwhelm teachers and peers. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.
Join clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Processing Disorders. Through hands-on activities and dynamic discussion, you will learn techniques, behavioral strategies, problem-solving strategies and brain training exercises to:

Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger them
Increase their self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
Reduce the frequency and duration of their tantrums and emotional outbursts

Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

Disordered Eating Behaviors: Identify and Treat the Underlying Trauma - Live Webinar
2023-10-04 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
As you perform your typical intake with a new client, you review their eating habits. There are indications of abnormal eating behaviors like yo-yo dieting and restrictive eating. The client guiltily says things like “I know I should eat heathier.”
Your guard is up, but you quickly move along when their problems don’t take the form of a full-blown eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia.
Non-DSM-5® disordered eating is more common than most clinicians realize, and these behaviors are frequently hiding something deeper –serving as a coping mechanism for the unresolved trauma that lies beneath. Without addressing the trauma behind the disordered eating, your client will fail to find the relief they seek.
Whether you specialize in eating disorders or not, now you can learn to assess and treat disordered eating from a trauma-informed, body-positive lens for improved outcomes! Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S will guide you step-by-step through the skills and essential treatment techniques you need for every stage of therapy, including:

Tools to sensitively and effectively gather accurate information about your clients’ disordered eating behaviors
Interventions from EMDR, Polyvagal Theory, and more
Insights from non-diet, body-positive paradigms to reframe clients’ damaging relationship with food

Sign up today to help your clients resolve their traumas and release unhealthy disordered eating behaviors with this powerful non-diet paradigm!

Developing Executive Functioning Strategies - Webinar
2023-09-29 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Phoenix)
As clinicians and educators, we have a unique knowledge-base and skillset to improve our own executive functions as well as that of our clients. When we identify strategies for working “smarter not harder,” we are better able to enrich the executive functioning skills while targeting goals. After completing this course, participants will be able to: describe executive functions, identify your own executive functioning strengths and weaknesses, identify the co- occurrence with neurodiverse populations, and select strategies you will embed into your existing practice tomorrow.
Highlights

Improve your executive functioning strengths and reduce weaknesses
Practice multiple techniques for improving executive functioning skills
Practical applications for functional strategies you can use the next day

#7366 Managing Pediatric Behaviors in Rehabilitation Treatment Sessions - Live Webinar or Self Study
2023-09-28 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
Why everyone needs a hopping penguin! This course offers a guide to identifying behaviors and utilizing
antecedents and consequences effectively. The purpose of this course is to introduce the functions of interfering behaviors that can reduce or block progress towards attainment of therapy goals, as well as showing ways to utilize modifications of antecedents and consequences to reduce or eliminate these interfering behaviors. Using the research based approaches of behavior analysis, this presentation will provide guidance for changing the trajectory of sessions. The presentation will utilize a video samples of real kiddos to demonstrate application of material.

Instructor: Amy M Prince, MA-CCC, SLP, BCBA and Amber Ladd, MA-CCC, SLP, BCBA

Infant Positioning Strategies Progressing Development while Promoting Safe Sleep - Webinar
2023-09-28 07:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Since the launch of the Back to Sleep campaign in 1994, there has been a drastic shift in the way we care for infants. It is difficult to radically change one aspect of infant care without influencing other areas. We continue to see this effect with the rise of certain infant diagnoses in pediatric clinical practice. Clinicians routinely face the same questions from parents and caregivers seeking advice on “what is best for my baby?”, fielding questions on SIDS and safe sleeping practices. Infant Positioning Strategies is a comprehensive continuing education course that navigates the maze of information to give clinicians the confidence and skills to effectively address them, improve outcomes, and teach parents how to keep their infants safe. What you know could save a baby’s life!
In this interactive course, we will take a deep dive into the information on safe sleeping practices, the leading theories on sudden infant death and highlight recommendations that will safeguard babies from preventable situations that endanger them. Participants will glean a wealth of information about evaluating and treating the now common diagnoses of torticollis, plagiocephaly, and other developmental delays in relation to the consequence of the back sleeping practice. Hands-on evaluation and advanced treatment techniques will be demonstrated in an interactive format. The topics of related reflex integration and sensory processing as it correlates to exclusive supine positioning will also be discussed. Participants will walk away from this course with a wealth of tools and knowledge to use immediately in the clinic.
Highlights

Application of the NIH Safe Sleep recommendations and the practice of back sleeping to achieve a safe sleep environment
Evaluating warning signs of torticollis, plagiocephaly, and other common developmental delays
Hands-on labs for manual torticollis techniques, plagiocephaly positioning, home exercise programs with caregiver carryover
Assessment and treatment tools specific to improving feeding, sensory processing, reflex integration, and motor development
Best practices for ergonomic body position techniques while using car seats and other baby apparatuses

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2023-09-22 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Many persons diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you will learn more about these reasons, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Looking at ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider reasons for the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way the brain works in ADHD, you will be able to better identify a variety of strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and positively influence symptoms of ADHD in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with information about some of the most common non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you will also learn a variety of practical strategies that can be implemented immediately and at low cost.
We will navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements, and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

#7479 BREATHE YOUR WAY TO BETTER BONE (and ALL) HEALTH THE MEEKS METHOD®- Live Webinar
2023-09-21 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
#7479 BREATHE YOUR WAY TO BETTER BONE (and ALL) HEALTH
THE MEEKS METHOD®

With a focus on the Breath in Optimal Body Alignment, this highly experiential webinar will be centered on how we can breathe in many ways for better bone and overall health. This webinar will introduce you to the concepts that your bones also breathe and the importance of breathing during exercise. You will learn and practice safe, therapeutic, and functional breathing movement and exercises that you can use in professional and personal lives the very next day.
To ensure good breathing technique, Sara will demonstrate several breathing exercises via embedded videos. Beginning with Noticing the Breath to Breathing in Athletics and ancient Yogic Breaths, these concepts can take you and your clients further into functional movement than they or you might have thought possible. Focusing on optimal body alignment will provide more room for the internal organs (especially the lungs and heart).

The innovative, comprehensive, evidence-based, 12-point approach of The Meeks Method® has been shown to be safe and effective for many musculoskeletal and spinal conditions. Participants will be able to question Sara Meeks during the presentation and, in addition, will have available complimentary handouts of The Re-Alignment Routine and a full-color PDF copy of the PowerPoint presentation.

Instructor: SARA M. MEEKS, PT, MS, G.C.S, K.Y.T

Trauma Informed Care: What Does An Occupational Therapy Practitioner Need To Know? Live Webinar
2023-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
The significance of recognizing and addressing the complex impacts of trauma on both clients and practitioners, to not only tailor interventions that foster holistic healing and growth but also empower us to forge deeper therapeutic connections, will be explored in this course. This content will help you learn how to use evidence-based strategies rooted in trauma-informed principles to extend compassionate support to those we serve and cultivate an empathetic foundation to navigate our own personal and professional experiences of trauma.

Learning Outcomes

After this course, participants will be able to identify basic principles of trauma and trauma-informed approaches.
After this course, participants will be able to recognize the impact of trauma on the brain and human behavior.
After this course, participants will be able to list 6 trauma-informed strategies recommended by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).

Agenda

0-5 Minutes
History and Definition

5-10 Minutes
Types of Trauma

10-15 Minutes
Current Evidence & Barriers to TIC

15-20 Minutes
The Impact & Symptomology of Trauma

20-35 Minutes
Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Brain

35-40 Minutes
Attachment Theory and Trauma

40-50 Minutes
Case Study

50-55 Minutes
Strategies for TIC for Patients and Practitioners

55-60 Minutes
Resources; Summary and Q&A
