Description
This On Demand course and will be available immediately after purchase. Participants can watch, pause, and re-watch the sessions at their convenience.
Join child/adolescent behavioural expert, Jay Berk, PhD, 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 behavioural 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 and video clips you will learn:
- 30 second teacher strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviours
- New ways to reduce the costs of out-of-district placements
- How to engage students in class, increase productivity and reduce truancy
- Behavioural assessments and strategies for the IEP team
- Side-effects of common psychotropic medications
- How skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioural 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!
Online Course Format
- Presented by Jay Berk, Ph.D.
- 6 hours per session, 1 session
- This course will consist of 6 hours of teaching content
- Non-Interactive – registrants will have access to lectures, PowerPoint presentation, demonstrations, video clips, and experiential exercises.
Students with Mental Health Issues
- Characteristics of at-risk students’ mental health problems
- Mental health issues vs. intentionally disruptive behaviours
- How skill deficits from mental health issues create behavioural difficulties
Strategies for ODD and Conduct Disorder Behaviours
- Choices everyone can live with
- What adults should never say, but usually do
- Arguments with defiant kids
- Getting to the core issues of ODD
- Kids who don’t feel bad
- School-wide management program
Strategies for ADHD
- Decrease impulsive behaviours with what YOU do
- Drawing out the behaviours you want
- Decrease disruption to other students
- Know the accompanying behaviours
- Techniques to self-regulate
Strategies for ASD
- It’s all about social skills growth
- Sensory solutions
- Self-regulation techniques for ASD
- Most misinterpreted behaviours
- Manage high interest areas
- Move them past “kid cop” behaviours
Strategies for Anxiety
- What to do about separation anxiety
- Help their panic attack pass quickly
- School phobia…not always a fear of school
- Compromises that work
- Deep breathing and relaxation techniques
Strategies for Depression
- School-wide program to promote compassions and a supportive culture
- Getting them past their sense of helplessness
- When they think they have nothing to live for
- Goal oriented plans for schoolwork and school day
Strategies for Other Challenging Behaviours
- Cutting and self-injury: What you really need to know to effectively intervene
- Electronic addiction: Which kids are most susceptible and why
- Psychotropic medication side-effects vs. behavioural issues
- Electronic bullying: What adults tell kids that fuels the problem
Disciplining the Special Needs Child/Adolescent
- How IDEA relates to discipline
- Rules for disciplining special education students
- Techniques for positive behaviour support
- “Pro-social” punishments
Strategies for the IEP Team
- Functional behavioural assessment simplified
- Facts and data to make tactical decisions
- Effective collaboration among educators and clinicians
- What most administrators do that burn out their staff
- What to do about non cooperative/reluctant parents
Education and Clinical Professionals: K–12 Classroom Teachers, School Counsellors/Psychologists, Learning Assistance/ Resource Teachers, School Administrators, School Paraprofessionals including Special Education Assistants, Classroom Assistants and Childcare Workers. All other professionals who support students including but not limited to: Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, Clinical Counsellors, Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Addiction Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Probation Officers, and Early Childhood Educators.
Parents, Caregiver, Foster Parents, Grandparents, and Extended Family raising a child.
Jay Berk, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in the child/adolescent behavioural field who brings both a clinical and education perspective to his work with children, adolescents and their families. For over 25 years, Dr. Berk has been treating clients with ODD, ADHD, autism, anxiety and stress, depression, learning disabilities, Tourette’s Syndrome and individuals who have Autism Spectrum Disorder. He conducts 15 social skills/mental health groups for children and adolescents and works daily with school and community professionals, families and parents. Dr. Berk continually consults for several school districts. In his private practice, in Beachwood, Ohio, he provides therapy for children, adolescents, families, testing and evaluation, school consultation as well as designed and facilitates alternative educational program.
| Registration | Early bird Fee | Regular Fee |
|---|
| Individual Enrollment | $199.00 | N/A |
| Full-Time Student | $149.00 | N/A |
All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD).
For group and/or student rates please view our Terms & Conditions and contact webinars@jackhirose.com for more information and registration.
The pre-approval period for accreditation of this course has expired. Participants seeking accreditation must contact their associations directly. Please check with your association prior to registration if you require continuing education credits/units (CEU’s). We do not guarantee approval and fees may apply. As this course is no longer pre-approved for CEU’s it is being offered at a discounted rate.
