STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Child and Adolescent Anger Management Certification Course: Fast Acting Strategies to Prevent and Overcome Oppositional and Aggressive Behavior - 2day Webinar
2020-12-10 09:00 - 2020-12-11 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Today’s children and teens feel overwhelmed, time crunched and stressed out by social media, screen time, and an uncertain and often frightening world. These stressors can lead to frustration and the very natural emotion of anger.
But anger can quickly turn into disrespect, aggression, defiance, and outbursts when young people are unable to cope; sabotaging school performance, peer relationships, and family functioning.
Whether you’re a therapist, educator, counselor, social worker or any professional who works with children and adolescents, it’s essential for you to be properly equipped to work with angry, oppositional and aggressive behavior.
Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein is a licensed psychologist and best-selling author who has worked with over two thousand angry and defiant children and their families over the last 32 years. Dr. Bernstein has appeared on the Today Show and is the author of several publications on anger and defiance.
Join him for this Online Certification Training as he gives you the high-impact skills, reliable tools and proven strategies you need to help children and teens with anger issues manage this overpowering emotion. Dr. Jeff will give you detailed step-by-step guidance and walk you through specific real-life scenarios related to family, school and peer relationships so you can:

End power struggles at home and school
Reduce and prevent angry outbursts, aggression and violence
Get teens to think and reflect before reacting
Cultivate emotional intelligence, communication and problem-solving skills
Help kids trust and value adults
Offer healthier alternatives to angrily shutting down or lashing out

Best of all, you can become a Certified Specialist in Child and Adolescent Anger Management (CSAM-CA) upon completion of this course at no additional cost to you – letting families,schools, agencies or your employer know that you’ve taken the time and effort to effectively work with angry, oppositional and aggressive behavior.
Sign up today, add valuable skills and credentials to your resume, and make a difference in the lives of children and teens!

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children and Adolescents Succeed - Live Webinar
2020-12-10 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Join child/adolescent behavioral expert, Dr. Margery J. Shupe, LPCC-S, 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
Meltdowns and tantrums
Cutting and self-injury
Obsessive compulsive
Defiance
Truancy
Impulsivity
Rigidity
Sensory issues
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!

Kinesiology Taping for Respiratory, Oral Motor, and Speech Related Issues - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-12-09 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Kinesiology Taping for Respiratory, Oral Motor, and Speech Related Issues

Kinesiology taping applications to effectively treat issues outside of the traditional including respiration, articulation, feeding, bruxism, drooling
Hands-on labs to practice and review taping principles which you can safely and effectively use the next day

Building Personal Power and Navigating Stress: Yoga & Mindfulness Practices for School & Home - Live Webinar
2020-12-09 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children (and educators) across the country have been dealing with a collective trauma as schools shut down and radically changed their lives.
Returning to school has included fears around getting sick, catching up with missed work from the prior year, changes in routine after a prolonged period at home, rapid transitions between in-person and remote schooling, and coping with the ongoing differences in the school experience needed to keep everyone healthy.
Join me, Jennifer Cohen Harper, expert in children’s yoga and mindfulness, as I show you how using movement, breath-work and mindfulness practices proactively with your students (whether in the classroom or virtually) will:

Generate a sense of internal safety,
Build personal power and foster attuned connection,
Help our students access their resilience, and
Thrive as they move forward with their learning.

Don’t miss out on practices to reduce overwhelm, soothe the nervous system and manage intrusive thoughts!

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2020-12-08 07:00 - 15:00 (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.

Unlocking Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Novel Approaches to Evaluation and Treatment - Live Webinar - Earn 4.5 CE Credits
2020-12-04 09:30 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
This live webinar features three instructors who will present information and case presentations pertaining to novel approaches to evaluating and treating neurodevelopmental disorders. You will learn:

Current information about brain, behavioral, and emotional functioning in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and dyslexia
A visual framework and descriptive language for individualizing the diagnosis of ASD across age and ability levels
A neurodevelopmental approach in the assessment of ASD, with emphasis on sensory processing (“interoception”) as it relates to top-down and bottom-up interventions
Details of case examples incorporating discussion of key neuropsychological features related to diagnosis, identification of co-occurring conditions, and interventions related to the diagnostic profile

3 expert instructors

Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, PhD, LP, ABPdN
Marilyn J. Monteiro, PhD
Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, EdD, NCSP, ABPdN

Anxiety and Disruptive Behaviors in Children: Alternative Explanations, Solutions and Treatment Techniques - Live Webinar
2020-12-04 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children’s behavior sometimes just does not make sense. They may behave great at school and then trash the house when they get home. They may wake at night with terrors even though nothing disruptive seems to be going on during the day. Nice parents with out of control kids are difficult to figure out.
Dr. Bostwick has worked with children and their parents for over 25 years conducting research and providing cognitive behavioral solutions to even the most puzzling behavior. Common childhood milestones can become challenging if a child doesn’t behave as we would expect. Dr. Bostwick will show you how anxiety and unexpected behavior can be a side effect of other problems you may not have considered. Kids with baffling behavior are often resistant to tried and true treatment options for anxiety and behavior disorders.
Join Dr. Bostwick, who has done the hard work for you. She’ll share developmentally appropriate considerations and techniques on how to proceed with highly sensitive childhood behavior:

Suicidal five-year-old
Child running the household and parents walking on eggshells
3-year-old who has just been kicked out of her second daycare
6-year-old tells you they hear voices or see things that are not there

Dr. Bostwick will help you create real and positive long term change that promotes healthy development from childhood into adolescence and beyond! Don’t miss an opportunity to learn from her.
Sign up today!

Common Orthotics for the Hand and Wrist - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-12-03 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Common Orthotics for the Hand and Wrist

Live orthotic fabrication process of techniques in orthosis development
Effective orthotics for a variety of hand and wrist diagnoses

Oppositional, Aggressive, Attention-Seeking & Uncooperative Children, Teens and Young Adults: High-Impact Strategies to Reduce Chronic Misbehavior - Live Webinar
2020-12-03 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
This seminar is for YOU if you work with young adults, teens or children who:

Debate and invite power struggles with parents or teachers
Display hostile, angry, revengeful, exploitative or predatory tendencies
Use silly immature tactics to gain attention and get noticed
Engage in property destruction, fire-setting, vandalism or animal cruelty
Have diagnoses such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar Disorder, or Conduct Disorder
Act irresponsible, helpless, negligent or tardy
Snicker at charts-and-stars and other “behavior modification” attempts

Attend this seminar and learn a wealth of high-impact techniques that cut across diagnostic lines and apply universally, from early childhood to young adult. Using these techniques will enable you to accomplish quickly what can often be missed in months of regular talk therapies, counseling or behavior modification reward systems.
You’ll learn how to stop pre-delinquent clients’ manipulations such as victim playing, power struggling, denial, minimizing, defiance, evasive lying, excuse making, blaming, and justifying. You’ll learn key strategies for “reading” misbehavior to uncover its underlying needs and motivations. You can share these methods with teachers and parents to free them from “ignore-nag-yell-punish” cycles and senseless power struggles. Discover powerful techniques to divert and reduce hostility and revenge in oppositional, predatory, violent adolescents and young adults. You’ll be able to introduce presocial adaptive behaviors that develop conscience and satisfy their unmet needs that trigger misbehavior.

Effective Rehabilitation Approaches for Patients with Parkinson's Disease - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-12-02 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Effective Rehabilitation Approaches for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Physiology of typical and atypical presentation of Parkinson’s disease
Review assessment tools validated to assess function in patients with Parkinson’s disease
Effective techniques to help with postural stability, addressing freezing episodes and dual tasking
Immediately maximize your client’s functional mobility using simple yet efficient and evidence-based treatment techniques

Evaluation and Treatment of the Hip in the Adolescent Athlete - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-12-01 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Evaluation and Treatment of the Hip in the Adolescent Athlete

Immediately improve your understanding of the specific hip injuries seen in younger athletes
Evidence-based treatment strategies to manage the return to sport process in young athletes with hip injuries

Evidence-Based Upper Quarter Orthopaedics - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-24 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Evidence-Based Upper Quarter Orthopaedics

Review common upper extremity neuromusculoskeletal conditions
Effective therapeutic management strategies of the four main upper extremity regions (cervical, shoulder, elbow, and wrist/hand)
Practical assessment and intervention strategies for orthopaedic conditions of the upper extremity

Changing Your Patients' Health Behavior Habits - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-20 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Changing Your Patients’ Health Behavior Habits

Immediately improve your clients’ carryover offunction and HEP performance from session to session
Practical solutions and strategies for addressing underlying limitations that prevent your clients from changing their health behavior habits
Effectively help your patients go from knowing what to do to get better at consistently performing exercises to stay better
Effective, evidence-based techniques for addressing neuro cognitive and behavioral barriers that may be applied to all patients in any setting to avoid the frequent flyer dilemma

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2020-11-20 07:00 - 15:00 (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!

Pain Psychology: Cognitive-Behavioral and Integrative Solutions for Chronic Pain - Live Webinar
2020-11-20 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Desperate for relief and inundated with misinformation about how to manage their symptoms, clients who are suffering with chronic pain arrive at your office/clinic seeking solutions on how to feel better.
Join Dr. Dan Kirschenbaum, chronic pain and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) expert, for this compelling seminar that explores research on cognitive biases, decision making and the relationship between such biases and effective treatment for chronic pain.
Packed with powerful, practical, evidence-based interventions, this seminar is a mustattend for any professional seeking to help clients:

Increase their activity level despite some discomfort initially – to reduce pain in the long run
Strategically decrease use of potentially dangerous, addictive medication
Overcome pessimism and self-condemnation that interferes with progress
Take focused action on life missions and meeting long term goals
Track progress and setbacks through consistent journaling and self-monitoring
And more!

Discover how you can to help even your most “stuck” clients to move out of manage chronic pain and move into active, healthy, and meaningful lives!

The Latest Rehab Strategies for Stroke Recovery - Live Webinar
2020-11-19 08:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
The Latest Rehab Strategies for Stroke Recovery

Increased education and knowledge on types of stroke, and recovery after stroke
Immediately apply principles of motor learning to improve outcomes
Easily complete comprehensive assessments for your clients with stroke
Formulate an effective plan of care based on evidence- based practices
Choose the best bracing options for your clients with gait impairments
Implement the most up-to-date research for stroke rehabilitation

Latest Evidence for Knee Rehabilitation - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-18 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Latest Evidence for Knee Rehabilitation

Recent advances in Therapeutic taping techniques for Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS)
Evidence-based parameters to be used with E-Stim
Application of evidence-based exercises for Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS)
Resources with an evidence-based review of kinesiology taping research

Aging Skin and Wound Care - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-17 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Aging Skin and Wound Care

Age related skin changes and their effect on wound healing
Extrinsic influences on aging skin health
Effective treatment of skin tears and importance of prevention

Sensory Diets Effective Creation and Implementation - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Sensory Diets Effective Creation and Implementation

Build and apply sensory diets that address a wide variety of sensory needs for improved behavior and better therapy outcomes
Strategies to help families implement the sensory diets you build in the home, school, and community settings
Effectively improve compliance and emotional regulation in children with sensory needs

Low Back Pain - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Low Back Pain

Relevant and most recent low back pain research
Practical assessment and treatment strategies you can use the next day
Effective, evidence-based interventions for the management and treatment of the most common diagnosis in out-patient rehabilitation

Technology and Screen-Time - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-10 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Technology and Screen-Time

Evidence-based practices to support technology and digital-based media as a learning tool to support the whole child and development
Current recommendations to promote healthy and balanced habits
Integrate technology and digital-based media in our daily lives with support of media mentors
Effective strategies to teach digital citizenship while increasing parent awareness of intentional use of technology and digital-based media to promote learning

Practical Techniques to Address Pediatric Gait Dysfunction - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-10 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Practical Techniques to Address Pediatric Gait Dysfunction

Practical assessment strategies for musculoskeletal imbalances you can use the next day
Treatment techniques and orthotic interventions most effective for children with hypotonia or hypo extensibility affecting gait

Development of Executive Function in Children - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Development of Executive Function in Children

Provide effective research-based activities to improve self-awareness, problem-solving and self-monitoring
Practical cognitive-motor activities to engage children to increase awareness of body and support attention, while increasing organizational skills, prioritization, and flexible thinking
Team collaboration strategies to identify challenges and integrate evidence-based strategies across pediatric environments for consistency and success

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-09 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention

Confidently recognize the primary characteristics and patterns of development in infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developing autism spectrum disorders
Treatments and resources available to children with autism spectrum disorders as presented by very young children

Positioning and Movement During Play - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-09 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Positioning and Movement During Play

Components of underlying development of movement and how to stimulate the neuro-sensory-motor pathways to gain a strong foundation for balance, posture and strength
Practical strategies for evidence-based positioning and intervention to promote optimal transitional movements and patterns
Essential elements of meaningful and purposeful play through the developmental stages of play
Support collaboration with teams and families to enhance effectiveness of interventions to improve learning and successful participation in activities of daily learning in a variety of environments

Integrative Functional Core Strengthening - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Integrative Functional Core Strengthening

Immediately improve your client’s functional breath capacity, core stability, and chronic spine pain symptoms
Apply a new holistic assessment tool and three highly effective core strengthening techniques

Treating the Shoulder in the Adolescent Athlete - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-05 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Treating the Shoulder in the Adolescent Athlete

Immediately increase your understanding of the adolescent musculoskeletal system and how it differs from the adult athlete
Practical strategies to treat common shoulder injuries in the young athlete

Differential Diagnosis Upper Extremity Pathologies and Symptoms - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-04 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
Course Highlights

Differential Diagnosis Upper Extremity Pathologies and Symptoms

Improve your ability to differentially diagnose cervical spine, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand conditions
Effective special tests to discover referred pain patterns and red flags
Evidence-based practice approaches and case studies

Upper Extremity Nerve Entrapments & Neurodynamics - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-10-29 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Upper Extremity Nerve Entrapments & Neurodynamics

Practical assessment and intervention strategies for neurodynamic conditions of the upper extremity
Effective therapeutic management strategies often three main upper extremity nerves and their terminal branches

A Sensory-Based Approach to Pediatric Toe Walking - Live Webinar
2020-10-22 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
A Sensory-Based Approach to Pediatric Toe Walking

Assess how behavior can be affected by environmental stressors in an individual’s effort to achieve homeostasis
Formulate treatment plans and home modifications based on standardized testing to meetthe needs of children who toe walk
