STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

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!

ODD, ASD, ADHD & Mood Disorders: Over 50 Techniques for Children & Adolescents - Live Webinar
2024-03-06 06:00 - 14:00
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.

#7375 The Sensorimotor Foundations for Arousal and Affect Regulation: A Multifac - Live Webinar
2024-03-06 18:00 - 20:00
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.

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
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!

"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, 2024-04-04 06:00 - 14:00
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!

CBT Toolbox for Children & Adolescents: Evidence-based Strategies to Target Specific Behaviors and Diagnosis - Live Webinar
2024-03-07 07:00 - 15:00
“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!

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
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.

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Webinar
2024-03-08 06:00 - 14:00
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.

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

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

Functional Movement Disorder - Webinar
2024-03-13 14:00 - 16:00
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

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
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!

50 Mindfulness Techniques for Children & Teens - Live Webinar
2024-03-15 06:00 - 14:00
​​​​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!

Rehabilitating the Youth Athlete: ACL Injuries - Webinar
2024-03-15 09:00 - 11:00
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

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
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.

Practical Strategies to Help Individuals Rally Their Motivation - Livestream
2024-03-19 09:00 - 10:30
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.”

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health - Live Webinar
2024-03-20 08:00 - 16:00
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, CIMHP, 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.

Tackling Autoimmunity with Targeted Nutrition and Lifestyle Tactics - Live Webinar
2024-03-20 10:30 - 12:30
Autoimmunity is on the rise. It’s the third most common cause of chronic illness in the US and women lead the pack as 80% of those affected. Sadly, it takes an average of 4.5 years to get diagnosed. We owe it to ourselves and our patients to better understand how to manage the condition holistically.
Dive into environmental and physiological risk factors, when and how to properly test and powerful nutrition and lifestyle tactics that manage autoimmune dysfunction at the cellular level.

#7210 and #7211 The Neurologic Upper Extremity : Preparations and Impairment - Live Webinar
2024-03-20 17:00 - 19:00
#7210 The Neurologic Upper Extremity I: Preparations and Impairment

Treat the entire upper extremity kinematic chain; not just arm movement! In the first part of this two-part course series, Dr. Steve Page integrates lecture, video, and case examples to discuss the upper extremity kinematic chain. Specific discussions include comprehensive evaluation and treatment of the core, posture, scapulae, and hemiplegic shoulder, and body/arm positioning, and their relative contributions to upper extremity motor performance and function. Dr. Page will integrate biomechanical assessment and clinical problem-solving skills to prioritize impairments and progress interventions. A mixture of demonstrations will be used to allow immediate incorporation into practice. These treatment ideas will include priority stretches, low/high tone, subluxation, pain, and functional activities. Note: This is the first course in a two-part series focusing on management and restoration of the paretic upper extremity. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Vides, Case Studies, Question/Answer, Group Discussion.

#7211 The Neurologic Upper Extremity II: A Multi-Level Approach to Compensation
After nearly 20 years teaching some of the first stroke continuing education courses, Dr. Steve Page knows a thing or two about the upper extremity! In the second portion of this two-part series, Dr. Page discusses strategies to facilitate and optimize upper extremity movement following a neurological injury. Building on Part 1’s focus on mitigating impairment and readying the upper extremity for practice, this second course focuses on optimizing assessments and goals, the importance of practice, strategies to grade practice and drive learning, and task specific training in a variety of patient presentations. Augmentative strategies to enhance practice attempts (eg, modalities; orthotics) are also discussed. Uniquely, this course uses impairment/functional levels as a framework to present interventions and goals that might be applied to particular patients. Note: This is the second course in a two-part series focusing on management and restoration of the paretic upper extremity. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Vides, Case Studies, Question/Answer, Group Discussion.

Instructor: Steve Page, OT/L, PhD, MS, MOT
Live Webinar Dates and Times:
#7210 on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 (8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST) Part One (3 CEUs)
#7211 on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 (8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST) Part Two (3 CEUs)

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes - Webinar
2024-03-21 07:00 - 15:00
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!

2-Day Autism Spectrum Masterclass: Social and Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Complex and Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults-Live Webinar
2024-03-21 07:00 - 2024-03-22 15:00
Transform your autism intervention with this 2-day Autism Spectrum Masterclass!
Begin by joining autism expert, Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP, and learn the most effective evidence-based social and behavioral interventions for working with the autistic clients with co-occurring conditions.
Dr. Sachs makes autism easy to understand, integrating the latest research, positive support interventions, and modifications to cognitive-behavioral therapies to help you confidently work with autistic children, adolescents, and adults, as well as their families, so they can thrive with more successful and meaningful lives!
Joined by Becca Lory Hector, an openly autistic professional who is a dedicated autism and neurodiversity advocate, researcher, consultant speaker, and author, Dr. Sachs will teach you how to manage challenges related to autism information processing differences and those that arise from being an autistic individual in a neurotypical world.
Through engaging case studies, demonstrations, and hands-on activities you will learn the skills necessary to:

Manage emotional and behavioral reactions to anxiety and OCD
Reduce meltdowns and how to intervene during dysregulation
Decode ADHD and executive functioning
Implement management skills to improve attention, organization and motivation
Decipher symptoms of OCD vs. autism
Reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation
Strengthen the skills needed to make/keep friends
Address body and sexual awareness, exploration of self, sexual arousal
Take a trauma informed approach with autistic clients
Understand sensory, motor, and interoception differences and how to meet related needs
Accurately interpret assessment reports to guide effective interventions
Use environmental modifications for successful transitions and tasks completion

Register today and learn the essential autism treatment tools that are easy to implement in the clinic, at school, and home!

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-03-22 06:00 - 14:00
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.

Screen Time and the Impact on the Development of Young Children - Webinar
2024-03-23 08:00 - 10:00
A recent meta-analysis found that there was an increase in screen time of 52% during the pandemic. As professionals treating young children for developmental delays, we are increasingly in the position of explaining to parents that too much screen time is detrimental to development. Although families are often given guidelines about limiting screen time, they are often lacking in information about why those guidelines were developed. Participants will learn how too much screen time affects developmental domains including speech and language, social-emotional, executive functioning, and cognitive skills. Attendees will also learnstrategies to share with parents on when and how it is appropriate to introduce screens to young children.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0-5.
Highlights

Technology’s impact on speech and language, social-emotional issues, executive functioning, and cognitive skills
Analyze the research behind screen time recommendations for young children
Discover resources and talking points to share with parents about the dangers of too much screen time
Compare quality educational media and best practices for introducing digital educational content

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-03-26 07:00 - 15:00
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.

Impact of Visual Deficits on Motor and Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers - Webinar
2024-03-26 13:00 - 15:00
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children spend up to seven hours a day in front of a screen. Such exposure to screen time has compromised their ability to participate in movement activities to encourage normal visual, motor, cognitive, and social development. The subsequent complications can include difficulty with visual processing, and motor and cognitive development that impact the child’s ability to learn. Screen time influence, coupled with a need to confine children in equipment, has further influenced how children learn. This session seeks to provide ways to identify infants and toddlers at risk for developing visual deficits that can later influence the child’s motor and cognitive development. Clinicians involved with at-risk children can potentially change a child’s developmental trajectory.
This course will highlight ways in which practitioners who work with infants and toddlers can use visual approaches to influence motor and cognitive development. Participants will gain an appreciation for the complexity of the child’s visual development and how this sense influences motor and cognitive skills. An initial review of the visual system, risk factors, and available assessments will be provided; followed by a demonstration of intervention strategies. Through interactive discussion and analysis of a case example, participants will demonstrate practical ways to influence the visual system and provide supportive home programming to families, caregivers, or teachers. The participants will be able to return to their clinic, school, or home settings with the knowledge to support their client’s visual skill development.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0- 18.
Highlights

Evidence review from over 10 articles that highlight the alarming problem associated with visual and motor development due to environmental influences on young children and unfortunate later effects related to learning
Practical ways to address visual, motor, and cognitive development
Interact with a case to develop solutions and create opportunities for carry-over in the home or school settings
Effective, evidence-based interventions to address visual, motor, and cognitive deficits

Advanced Strategies to Improve Emotional Regulation & Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents: Help Youth Achieve their Full Behavioral, Academic, and Social Potential - Live Webinar
2024-03-27 11:00 - 2024-03-28 19:00
In a world where children and adolescents face heightened levels of dysregulation and anxiety, mastering advanced strategies for emotional regulation and executive functioning is paramount for effective clinical practice.
Join Jason Mathison, PsyD, NCSP, ABSNP, a seasoned neuropsychologist, in this dynamic two-day training where you’ll unlock a toolbox of over 40 cutting-edge, long-term treatment strategies—meticulously designed for home and school settings—that empower young clients to calm their bodies, enhance their thinking, and achieve their full behavioral, academic, and social potential.
Day one you’ll be immersed in transformational strategies to assist young clients in reclaiming emotional control, particularly when compromised by conditions such as trauma, ODD, ADHD, ASD, bipolar disorder, and mood disorders. You’ll effectively reduce the most challenging behaviors including:

Tantrums
Meltdowns
Running Away
Noncompliance
Screaming
Anxiousness

Having mastered lower-order skills, day two takes a deep dive into motor movement, cognitive skill development, cognitive-behavioral approaches, and nutrition to improve the top 10 executive functioning, including:

Self-Regulation
Impulse Control
Sustaining Attention
Cognitive Flexibility
Initiation
Self-Monitoring

This intensive 2-day training is your gateway to a wealth of knowledge and actionable strategies, equipping you to make a profound impact on the lives of young individuals, enabling them to thrive! Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your clinical skills and elevate your practice to new heights! REGISTER NOW!

Pediatric Sleep Dysfunction - Webinar
2024-03-27 17:00 - 19:00
Good sleep is the foundation of health, development, and success for all of us. Research tells us that children with sleep issues struggle with self-regulation, learning, social skills and are more likely to be obese. The power of sleep has been neglected as an important part of one’s overall well- being. Sleep problems are very common in children. Up to 80% of children with neurodevelopment disorders have impaired sleep. The absolute necessity of good quality sleep for a child’s well-being and development is often overlooked. Clinicians with the ability to identify sleep issues will be able to support children and families with education, strategies, and referrals to specialists when needed.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0- 18.
Highlights

Examine the physiology of sleep and its importance in all aspects of growth, development, and learning through our lifespan
Assessment of a child’s sleep habits with practical strategies, family education, and interventions for improvement

#7221 Neurologic Based Vision Conditions in Occupational Therapy - Live Webinar
2024-04-03 17:00 - 19:00
The purpose of this course is to discuss neurologic related vision conditions in Occupational Therapy. Topics include central retinal artery occlusion, optic neuritis, cranial nerve injuries that impact vision, and visual inattention/neglect. In this introductory course therapy practitioners will be instructed on each diagnosis and how it impacts engagement in occupations.

Practitioners will also gain knowledge on selecting appropriate assessments/screening tools within their scope of practice and how to design interventions to promote independence with daily tasks. (Introductory Level)

2-Day Conference: ADHD, Neurodiversity and Clinical Practice - Live Webcast
2024-04-04 07:00 - 2024-04-05 15:00
Several decades of clinical recommendations have yielded some solid treatment recommendations for ADHD…
Now the neurodiversity movement is challenging how much change we should ask of our ADHD client versus how much latitude and accommodation society should adopt.
This can be complicated enough for our clients—even more so for those of us needing to integrate all perspectives to help our clients figure out what to change and what to accept about themselves.
Join two leading experts in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD for an engaging deep dive into how best to serve your clients with ADHD. David Nowell, PhD and Ari Tuckman, PsyD bring 50 years of clinical practice to inform their presentations with what you need to know most!
In these two days we’ll give you NEW tools to:

Understand the neurological underpinnings of ADHD features
Conduct collaborative interview and treatment planning that is strengths-based and neuro divergent-friendly
Make use of a “top down/ bottom up” understanding of environment-brain-behavior supports and treatment
Collaborate with clients around powerful lifestyle changes to reduce cognitive inefficiency
Integrate a neurological, psychological, and social understanding of ADHD
Educate clients to see time and feel the future to explain common ADHD struggles
Sort through the noise about ADHD medication to make a nuanced decision
Improve clients’ productivity for greater self-esteem and peaceful relationships
Help families apply a coherent approach to parenting children from elementary school to launch
Address psychological fallout of ADHD on self-esteem, coping mechanisms, and relationships
Empower couples with one ADHD partner to create a balanced relationship that is still fun

If you’re looking for a clinical toolbox brimming with strategies to rethink your ADHD approach, we’ve got you covered. Register now!
