| Date: |
Saturday, September 25, 2010 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Program No: |
AM61 |
| CE Credits: |
6 |
| Tuition: |
$135 |
| Instructor: |
Daniel B. Jacobs, PsyD, MBA |
| Location: |
MSPP |
| Description: |
Children who grow up in chaotic, abusive, disrespectful, and threatening environments often witness and experience communication styles from adults that teach them that acting out in an angry way is acceptable or even necessary to survive. Children exposed to significant trauma or neglect often develop communication and behavioral styles based on anger and rage. They commonly express themselves in negative and self-destructive ways, have trouble communicating positive emotions, and often exhibit their pain via erratic, aggressive, and dangerous behavioral patterns. Working with these youth can be a great challenge, made even harder by their attempts to push us away.
To help these youth, ages 9-18, learn more adaptive coping strategies, we have to be able to talk with them about their difficult issues in the right way. We have to set firm but fair structures and consequences for problematic behaviors while at the same time being able to offer them realistic alternatives to their negative behavioral patterns. These youth need to learn ways to take control and responsibility for their actions and we need to avoid being caught up in unnecessary power struggles and ineffective reactive loops as we help them achieve this goal. We also need to face the challenge of helping these angry children broaden their understanding and familiarity with alternative, and healthier, coping strategies preferably before negative patterns become entrenched. This workshop will focus on proactive and practical strategies useful in handling the challenging behaviors most often exhibited by youth dealing with anger management issues. |
| Objective: |
N/A |
| Pre-Requisite: |
N/A |
| To Register: |
Register Online |
