STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Practical Strategies to Help Individuals Rally Their Motivation - Livestream
2024-03-19 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Phoenix)
In this 90-minute livestream course we’ll explore motivation-based myths. We’ll then contrast this information with research-based, as well as tried-and-true methods, to help individuals rally their motivation so they can tackle basic to complex social and organizational goals. In this journey we’ll also explore factors that get in the way of motivation such as anxiety, perfectionism, lagging social and organizational competencies, and/or digital device distractions, and then review practical strategies and tools to help individuals feel “they can” rather than “they can’t.”

School Refusal: Real Help for Children and Teens Who Can’t or Won’t Go to School - Live Webinar
2024-03-18 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
School refusal creates chaos in families and often becomes a vicious cycle in which students become trapped.
Often a symptom of anxiety and depression, school refusal creates an immediate short-term relief for kids seeking to escape aspects of the school day. But the result typically includes falling further behind academically, increased feelings of disconnection from peers, and lowered self-esteem.
Join Susan Gibbs, LPC, to learn from her extensive experience in addressing school refusal effectively. She will bridge the clinical and educational words and share approaches for both environments so you can help struggling students and families.
You will leave with the ability to:

Identify the 4 functions of school refusal
Anticipate and plan for 5 critical times of day
Create student and family specific plans that focus on the student’s inner wealth and human connection
Equip parents and educators with age-appropriate interventions to successfully handle school refusal in-the-moment
Apply the Nurtured Heart Approach to school refusal

Register today to help students end the cycle of school refusal by changing the way they see themselves and the world around them.

Rehabilitating the Youth Athlete: ACL Injuries - Webinar
2024-03-15 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Rehabilitation following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is extensive and has many different components. When treating the youth athlete there are unique considerations that require additional understanding to provide evidence-based care. This course will discuss phases of ACL rehabilitation pre-operatively through return to sport. This course will also touch on youth athlete ACL tear epidemiology, risk factors, and evidence-based ACL injury prevention strategies. Attendees will review the evidence behind physical therapy care along the full timeline of ACL treatment with a focus on the youth athlete. At the end of this course, attendees will have improved treatment progression skills and criterion-based knowledge they can apply immediately to their youth ACL reconstruction patients.
Highlight

Immediately improve your ACL rehab skills to treat your youth patients more effectively
Practical assessment and re-assessment strategies for returning a youth athlete to sport
Effective, evidence-based interventions for all phases of ACL rehabilitation in the youth athlete

50 Mindfulness Techniques for Children & Teens - Live Webinar
2024-03-15 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
​​​​Learning differences, cultural differences, developmental differences, and more all affect how children learn best.
By integrating mindfulness into therapy and the classroom, you’ll move away from a one-size fits all approach and discover ways to adapt mindfulness for all learning styles.
Join author, psychologist, and consultant Dr. Christopher Willard in this one-day workshop where he’ll share fun, creative ways to teach mindfulness. Be prepared for an experiential day practicing mindfulness techniques including awareness, movement, games, play, and creative/expressive activities that can be practiced by young people and adults alike.
You’ll learn:

Proven techniques for depression, ADHD, anxiety, anger, acting out, trauma, and more
Mood boosters for depression such as mindful walking, yoga, and qi-gong
Playful “Alphabreaths” to self-regulate emotions, attention, and behavior
Simple practices for ADHD, executive function and impulse control disorders: “the mindful SEAT” “mindful play and games” “mindful music”, and more
Skills to soothe trauma and anxiety: “seeking stillness,” “touchpoints,” and “four elements” practices will be taught and practiced as a group
Skills that build emotional and social intelligence: mindfulness of music, listening and body awareness exercises

Practices will engage different learning styles through arts, sports, games, music, technology, and more, for attention spans ranging from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.
Mindfulness is more than just breathing, and so is this workshop! Register Now!

2-Day Certification Training: Essentials for Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Live Webcast
2024-03-14 07:00 - 2024-03-15 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Imagine a childhood full of worry, fear, panic, and suffering…
This is the reality for many of your young clients.
Perfectionism, anxious grief, and anxiety disorders are at an all-time high!
The good news is, YOU can be the source of comfort and support that changes all that… this anxiety certification training gives you the latest evidence-based interventions unique to your young clients’ individual needs.
Join kid’s anxiety expert and author Dr. Steve O’Brien as he shares interventions grounded in client-centered cognitive behavioral and family systems therapies equipping kids and their parents to:

Develop effective panic-management plans for reducing agoraphobic potential
Release the grip of social anxiety to promote interpersonal competence
Reframe debilitating worry and negativistic self-talk to foster optimism
And so much more!

Not only will you leave these two days equipped with interventions for treating your young client’s spectrum of anxiety, you’re also eligible to become a Certified Clinical Child and Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA). Visit www. evergreencertifications.com/CCATPCA for details.
This training takes your skill set from generalized to specialized and your young clients from surviving to thriving.
REGISTER TODAY!

Functional Movement Disorder - Webinar
2024-03-13 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Many of us “grew up” in the therapy world having a basic understanding of conversion disorder and have worked with patients where it feels obvious to us that the patient’s movement problems are not consistent with the diagnosis they have been given. It may feel like they are “faking it”.These patients are often frustrating and difficult to treat with positive outcomes, leading to therapist burnout. We often don’t have the tools we need to be effective. Emerging research and an increase in appropriate diagnoses of functional movement disorder (FMD) has helped us identify and treat this very real diagnosis. Join us to fill your toolbox with diagnosis and treatment techniques that will allow you to get very real and positive outcomes with this challenging patient population.
This course will enhance your differential diagnosis skills around FMD and provide you with practical treatment constructs and ideas that you can put into your patient carethe next day. This course includes case studies and video examples to promote learning. After taking this course you will be able to provide your patient population with FMD treatment that will help them get better faster and stay better without frustration and burnout on your end.
Highlights

Practical treatment approaches and model of treatment delivery you can use the next day with all neurological patients
Effective, evidence-based interventions for this population
Case studies with examples of task-specific functions and return to ADLs
Patient factors that arise when treating this population that include pain, cognition, sleep, and stress

Big Behaviors in small containers: 50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation - Live Webinar
2024-03-08 08:00 - 16:00 (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.

#7366 Managing Pediatric Behaviors in Rehabilitation Treatment Sessions - Live Webinar or Self Study
2024-03-08 08:00 - 10:00 (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

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Webinar
2024-03-08 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
It is so frustrating to have used all of the “gold standard” techniques and still not see progress. You’ve already worked through the traditional anxiety interventions but your clients continue experiencing the same nervousness, worrying and panic.
This program was made to help you. Join neuropsychology and anxiety expert, Dr. Janene Donarski as she teaches you the 10 Best-Ever Techniques and helps you master:

Cutting edge modifications to anxiety techniques that work with even the most difficult cases
The latest tips for treating clients with co-morbid diagnoses
Options to use with groups and individuals that work in every clinical population
How to apply the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and the default mode network to create successful exposure therapies and reduce rigid, anxious thought processes

With Dr. Donarski’s pragmatic approach, you’ll get a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms that you can immediately use with all clients and confidently apply in clinical practice.

Self-Regulation: Keeping the Body, Mind & Emotions Regulated in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Differences - Live Webinar
2024-03-08 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Dysregulated kids leave parents, caregivers, and educators frustrated and at a loss for determining next steps.
Meltdowns during transitions. Bedtime refusals. Off-task behaviors. Out-of-proportion emotions.
Kids and their caregivers are coming to you for help. But with multiple underlying causes of dysregulation, it’s hard to know where to begin. And for kids with ASD, ADHD, and SPD, the one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t work.
Join Maria Slavin, MS, OTR/L, specialist with over 20 years of experience in working with neurodivergent children, to learn to identify and effectively address the root causes of poor self-regulation and walk away with dozens of evidence-based strategies for creating simple but effective programs in clinical, school, and home settings:

Sensory techniques for over- and under-responders
Simple self-management and video modeling programs
Sensory lifestyle programs
Top communication support strategies for kids with ASD
3 must-use transition strategies
Behavioral supports for kids with ADHD
Co-regulation strategies for all ages

Don’t miss this opportunity! Register today.

CBT Toolbox for Children & Adolescents: Evidence-based Strategies to Target Specific Behaviors and Diagnosis - Live Webinar
2024-03-07 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
“Fix my kid!”—that desperate cry of parents and caregivers who walk into your office seeking help.
You start the therapeutic process with your go-to techniques. And your young client progresses…for a while. But when they fail to make additional gains, or even regress, your skills as a therapist are put to the test. When all your usual tools have been exhausted, you’re left feeling helpless and wondering how to move forward.
Join Amanda Crowder, LCSW, as she delivers an energetic, technique-heavy workshop that will breathe new life into how you approach avoidant, and complex client cases—with creative, activity-based CBT interventions!
Through powerful must-have CBT techniques, case examples, activities, exercises, and hands-on practice you will be able to:

Improve outcomes for children and adolescents with disruptive behavior, trauma, anxiety, self-injurious behaviors and more
Easily integrate these essential skills in your practice and allow you to individualize them for a variety of disorders and temperaments
Drastically increase children’s engagement in treatment, improve emotional functioning, strengthen relationships, maximize academic engagement, and minimize acting-out behaviors
Create an affiliation between you, the child, and family members – boosting parent/child satisfaction, motivation, and retention in therapy

You’ll leave feeling prepared and empowered to improve the lives of your most difficult-to-treat young clients with a creative, activity-based CBT approach!

"Break Through" Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges - Live Webinar
2024-03-07 07:00 - 15:00 (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?
I discovered this was a simple question with a complex answer. 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 2018. 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!

2-Day Conference: Play Therapy: Engaging Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Trauma - Live Webinar
2024-03-07 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Childhood Disruptive Behavior Disorders are on the rise! Tantrums, anger, defiance, threatening behavior …
How can we as therapists more effectively decrease acting-out behaviors and help repair, rebuild and create strong parent-child relationships?
Join me, Clair Mellenthin, expert in child and family trauma and attachment, as we dive into the impact of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder on children, teens, and their families. You’ll learn effective, powerful, evidence-based play therapy interventions including guided imagery, mindfulness, expressive arts, and sandtray play – all of which include parent-child relationship enhancement activities.
This workshop will show you how:

the impact of attachment plays a role in the etiology in childhood disruptive behavior disorders
to utilize attachment-centered play therapy techniques to treat these diagnoses in children
to strengthen parent-child relationships
to improve overall self-esteem and confidence – giving the child tools to control their challenging symptoms and help heal the family system.

Register today to explore the power of play therapy – and incorporate these strategies into your mental health practices with young clients and their families!

#7375 The Sensorimotor Foundations for Arousal and Affect Regulation: A Multifac - Live Webinar
2024-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Phoenix)
Join Sheila Frick and Tracy Bjorling as they introduce the neurobiological underpinnings for affect and arousal regulation from a sensory integrative and relational perspective. As therapists, we often encounter individuals who are unable to effectively modulate and integrate sensation for the purpose of achieving, maintaining, and shifting arousal and affective states within a range that best supports daily function and participation.
Participants will learn therapeutic guidelines and a variety of sound, relational, movement, and other sensory motor based strategies necessary for designing effective intervention strategies that can be incorporated into daily routines. These strategies can be applied individually to support clients to achieve, maintain, and broaden their optimal range of arousal and affect. Activity recommendations are appropriate for a variety of ages and environments, including in-clinic, home, and schools.

ODD, ASD, ADHD & Mood Disorders: Over 50 Techniques for Children & Adolescents - Live Webinar
2024-03-06 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
It’s guaranteed… this seminar will guide you through focused, clear and successful methods for treating children. You will walk away with evidence-based techniques that will not only re-energize your practice but also help your clients to:
Decrease:

Aggression
Distractibility
Impulsivity
Over-Activity
Sensory Sensitivity
Irritability/Temper Tantrums
Hopelessness
Panic/Anxiety

Increase:

Effective Communication
Self-Control
Coping with Environmental Change & Transitions
Task-Focus & Persistence
Empathy & Remorse
Respect
Social Skills

Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, M.A., L.P.A., national speaker, expert and author will teach you more than 50 techniques that can quickly improve the lives of children and adolescents with ODD, ASD, ADHD and mood disorders. Learn how to troubleshoot and adapt techniques for preschool through high school aged kids through real-life case studies, video/audio clips, reproducible client-friendly worksheets, and step-by-step directions for every intervention. Jen’s passion, caring, humor, and time-tested approaches will make this day of learning fly by! You will leave invigorated and empowered to treat the top childhood disorders.

Beyond Sleep Hygiene: CBT Solutions to Improve Outcomes and Resolve Insomnia in Clients with Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, and More - Live Webinar
2024-03-05 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Stuck progress. Incomplete treatment gains. Symptom recurrence.
These aren’t the outcomes you want for your clients.
Anxiety, PTSD, and depression often share a common problem – sleep disturbance. And you’re likely underestimating its significance.
While old wisdom suggested that insomnia was just a symptom of other disorders that would resolve along with the primary mental health condition…
…new evidence reveals that not only is insomnia a risk factor for numerous behavioral health issues and medical problems – if left unaddressed, insomnia complicates your treatment efforts and diminishes your clients’ recovery.
Insomnia must be targeted directly – and often, simply helping your clients sleep better actually decreases their other symptoms.
In this essential training, Dr. Carney will teach you Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), a powerful evidence-based, gold-standard treatment to help your clients put chronic insomnia behind them. You’ll get the skills you need to:

Increase sleep efficiency so your clients consistently get the rest they need
Transform your clients’ bed into a cue for sleep so they don’t toss and turn all night
Deconstruct unhelpful beliefs to decrease anxiety about sleep
Troubleshoot sleep-related problems at any stage of therapy

Register today and add to your clinical toolbox the treatment that is more strongly recommended than medications to improve sleep!

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-03-05 06:00 - 14:00 (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.

Trauma-Informed Compassionate Classrooms - Live Webcast
2024-03-01 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver)
As an educator, you are faced with the challenge of meeting the social and emotional needs of ALL your students.
This can be challenging enough with typical learners, not to mention those who have experienced trauma or mental health challenges. These kids may present with outwardly aggressive and irritable behaviors which requires more of your time and attention.
Despite the amount of time you invest in behavior charts or incentives for good behavior, traditional behavioral approaches to classroom management and a punitive approach to discipline simply are not effective.
Join Dr. Sarah Kirk and learn how a trauma-informed approach will greatly reduce challenging behavior, improve student engagement and increase learning outcomes. Leave this seminar with new strategies, tools and resources to reduce students’ impulsiveness, aggressive behaviors and inattention and increase their focus, attention and compassion. While this positive approach is absolutely essential for students with trauma, it will also greatly benefit each and every student in your classroom. Return to your school with:

Research-based practices to establish a trauma-informed classroom
A plan to develop positive relationships and build trust with your hard-to-reach students
Proven techniques for communicating more effectively and collaboratively with challenging students
Cognitive skill-building strategies which incorporate the science of neuroplasticity and the strengths-based perspective of neurodiversity

Bal-A-Vis-X Training - Live
2024-03-01 07:30 - 2024-03-02 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
BAVX March 2024
Bal-A-Vis-X Training
Levels 1, 2 and Adaptive (Session A)
BAVX Trainers: Anne Wheaton, Terry Tinney
Schedule: March 1st & 2nd , 2024
Friday, March 1st 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 2nd 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Oro Valley, Arizona

The cost of the training is $290.
This includes 17 hours of instruction for Levels 1, 2, and Adaptive.
Each participant receives 17 hours of recertification
Or 17 hours of CEUs

This training requires active participation, so dress comfortably!

Registration is due by Friday, February 9th
Note: After Friday, February 16th there will be no refunds for this training.

Enrollment is limited to 14 – to ensure a spot, send registration/monies ASAP.

Confirmation information for the training will be sent the week of February 19th

Please make checks payable to: Integrated States LLC
Send check/money order and registration to:

Anne Wheaton
12900 N. Camino Vieja Rancheria
Oro Valley, AZ 85755

For information or questions, please call or e-mail Anne
(520) 609-1710, www.integratedstates.com

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children and Adolescents Succeed - Live Webinar
2024-03-01 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Join child/adolescent behavioral expert, R. Nicolle Carr, Ph.D., and learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood disorders, anxiety, and depression. You will walk away with concrete, yet practical, strategies to successfully intervene with their serious behavioral issues, such as:

Anger and outbursts
Cutting and self-injury
Defiance
Impulsivity
Sensory Issues
Meltdowns and tantrums
Obsessive compulsive
Truancy
Rigidity
Electronic addiction

Through case studies, video clips and dynamic class discussion you will learn:

30-second teacher strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviors
New ways to reduce the costs of out-of-district placements
How to engage students in class, increase productivity, and reduce truancy
Behavioral assessments and strategies for the IEP team
Side-effects of common psychotropic medications
How skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioral difficulties
Characteristics of at-risk students’ mental health problems
Strategies to gain collaboration with clinicians

Leave the day with the “magic dust” you have been looking for to expedite rapid and effective changes in these children and adolescents!

#345 Torticollis: Assessment & Treatment of Infants & Children - Live Webinar
2024-03-01 06:00 - 2024-03-02 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
This dynamic evolving course will concentrate on progressive, effective evaluation and treatment schemes for infants and young children with a diagnosis of torticollis with or without plagiocephaly, including challenging cases. The course is designed to provide therapists with current research and recommendations pertaining to the implications of torticollis, sleep posture and increased use of positional devices on infant postural and motor development. Current evidence-based clinical pathways and guidelines for management of torticollis, movement impairments and infant head shape, including Clinical Practice Guidelines from APTA – Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy, will be incorporated. Red flags for related early infancy and preschool diagnoses will be appraised. Current functional, clinically oriented evaluation and evidence based treatment strategies for infants and young children that can be integrated into routines and play will be provided. Diagnostic procedures and surgical intervention will be reviewed. Recommendations for follow-up and secondary specialist consultations will be presented. Emphasis on home exercise programs, effective strategies, and long term follow-up to team with parents will be explored throughout both days.

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-03-01 06:00 - 14:00 (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

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

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-03-01 06:00 - 14:00 (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!

Athletic Foot and Ankle Injuries - Webinar
2024-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
Foot/ankle injuries are some of the most encountered injuries in the athlete. When these injuries are not managed, there is diminished training time, increased time away from competitive sport, increased risk for re-injury, decreased quality of life, and long-term negative outcomes to the health of the athlete. This course will address foot/ankle injuries that may be uniquely seen in athletes to improve the clinician’s understanding of these pathologies. The content will focus on the most current evidence for the management of these injuries along with evidence based manual therapy, neuromuscular retraining, and therapeutic exercise interventions. Along with the presentation of the current research, we will cover slides with detail on specific manual therapy techniques, verbal and visual cues for balance training, and ideas for collaboration with other members of the sports medicine team. This knowledge will improve the clinician’s ability to effectively treat this commonly injured body region.
Highlights

Immediately improve your knowledge of foot/ankle injuries specifically encountered in the athlete
Evidence-based interventions to improve mobility, neuromuscular control, and strength in the foot/ankle

#7316-2 Why, What, and How to feed Picky Eaters, a professional approach. - Live Webinar
2024-02-23 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Phoenix)
The purpose of this course is to provide case study references and examples of intervention to support the knowledge learned in part 1 of this series. Case studies will be presented throughout lecture, pictures, and videos for different ages and populations impacted by picky eating and the presenter will discuss assessment and intervention while showing visuals of the actual treatment. Course instruction methods include lecture, demonstration, case studies, question/answers.

Instructor: Samantha Heidenreich, OTD, OTR/L, OMT

Therapeutic Yoga: Biopsychosocial Applications for Rehabilitation - Webinar
2024-02-23 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
Yoga continues to rise in popularity, and a growing evidence-base supports the therapeutic utility of yoga in healthcare. Yoga is the most used mind-body therapy in western complementary medicine and can be integrated into rehabilitation efforts to improve physical and cognitive outcomes. Rehabilitation specialists can capitalize on the popularity and efficacy of yoga to improve functional outcomes as well as engage patients to participate in an activity that they can continue independently or in group classes to maintain rehab gains and optimize health. Clinicians are tasked with treating patients as people rather than problems to solve, and yoga offers mind-body tools that support a person-centered, evidence-informed, and biopsychosocial approach to care that both improves the experience of rehabilitation for patients and clinicians alike.
This course will introduce yoga philosophy as well as explore applications of therapeutic yoga that have been substantiated by scientific evidence. Participants will be invited to practice yoga postures as well as breathing techniques with emphasis on mindful attention and sensory integration. Clinicians can immediately utilize these mind-body techniques as self-care to prevent burnout, as well as integrate these practices into physical and cognitive rehabilitation of patients ranging from pediatric to geriatric in a variety of settings.
Highlights

Immediately apply yogic practices that support a person-centered, biopsychosocial approach to rehabilitation efforts.
Incorporate evidence-informed yoga practices into patient care to improve outcomes in physical, occupational, and cognitive/speech domains.

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-02-23 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Many of our clients 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’ll learn more about these concerns, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Viewing ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way brains with and without ADHD function, you’ll be able to better identify a variety of neurodivergent-affirming strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and better manage ADHD symptoms in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with updates about evidence-based non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you’ll also learn a variety of practical strategies that you and your clients can implement immediately and at low cost.
We’ll 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.

Smart but Scattered: Effective EF Strategies to Empower Children to Thrive Emotionally, Socially, and Academically - Live Webinar
2024-02-23 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework …
Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as social-emotional and behavioral difficulties.
… YOU can be the one to help them!
Join Dr. Dawson, esteemed expert and author on Executive Functioning, for a transformative training that will empower you to support these struggling students. Dive into captivating case examples and interactive discussions that translate cutting-edge research into meaningful, practical, and easy-to-implement techniques to help any student.
Walk away with a comprehensive toolkit that includes evidence-based strategies – assessment tools, environmental modifications, cognitive and behavioral skill building techniques – to help students …

Establish effective systems to manage materials, assignments, and responsibilities
Prioritize tasks, manage schedules, and meet deadlines
Mitigate impulsive behaviors and decision-making
Foster perseverance and persistence to reach goals
Discover their unique strengths and capabilities

Go back to your office with can’t fail strategies and real-world solutions to help adolescents to overcome obstacles, at home and school!

Pediatric Complex Feeding Issues: 2-Day Intensive Training - Live Webinar
2024-02-22 09:00 - 2024-02-23 17:00 (America/Denver)
Children do not present with one area of difficulty when it comes to feeding – it is typically a mix of behavior, sensory and oral-motor issues. As a result, we need to learn how to adjust on the fly when a child throws us a curveball in a session that doesn’t fit with our treatment plan.
In this 2-day live webcast, I will show you how to use a roadmap to navigate the muddy waters of feeding and learn how to seamlessly move between sensory, motor and behavior strategies to create the best-individualized treatment plan for each child.
Through video case examples, I will show you treatment strategies, and hands-on exercises to gain the knowledge needed to successfully treat feeding difficulties.
You’ll walk away with advanced techniques to:

Evaluate the causes of mealtime difficulties: behavior, sensory, oral motor, or a combination
Increase the range of foods, decrease rigidity around mealtimes
Increase jaw strength and decrease ineffective lip closure, or poor tongue lateralization
Use deep breathing and proprioceptive input to address self-regulation at the table
Educate parents and caregivers to promote carryover at home
Increase self-regulation around feeding
Increase food play and exploration to increase food acceptance

Don’t miss out! Come join me to learn how to put all the pieces together for children with complex feeding issues.
