Mona Delahooke – Beyond Behaviors

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Mona Delahooke – Beyond Behaviors: Effective Neuroscience-based Tools to Transform Childhood Behaviors featuring Dr. Mona Delahooke

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Nearly every day, I encounter clinicians, teachers, and parents who are desperately seeking answers for how to help children overcome “challenging behaviors.”

And I understand the frustration… the sad truth is that the traditional strategies we have for helping children are failing.

Time-out rooms, behavior chart consequences, and other methods that focus on correcting behaviors aren’t working for the simple reason that they don’t take into consideration the reasons underlying behavioral challenges: the child’s individual differences and the state of the child’s nervous system.

Each child has a unique background, different strengths and challenges, and are at different points in their development. They require customized plans, rooted in science, that are specific to their needs.

That’s why I’m excited to invite you to join me and learn a new and MUCH more effective approach to helping children and their caregivers…

…one that leverages the neuroscience of development and Polyvagal Theory insights that have been grossly underused in supporting children and families.

Through six practical, step-by-step modules filled with real-life case samples, you’ll learn:

• How to work with children of any background or developmental stage, including those who’ve experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with a disorder.
• How to easily use Polyvagal Theory insights to understand and change behaviors.
• How to use both top-down AND bottom-up methods to effectively engage children in the way that’s catered to their needs.
• What to do in moments where behaviors get big and out of hand.
• And so much more!

Whether you work directly with children, or you’re helping a client caregiver who’s feeling inadequate, this course is for you!

Module 6

Nervous System-Based Techniques for Behavioral Change, Part 2

Finally, you’ll master the top-down approaches that will help the child to fully grow and thrive. You’ll get critical insight into working with special populations, including children with trauma, ASD, and neurodiversity. You’ll also learn de-escalation strategies to use when behaviors get big and out of hand. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to focus on the relationship with the child instead of the behaviors.

Meet the Course Expert:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mona Delahooke, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of experience caring for young children, teenagers, and their families.

Dr. Delahooke holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in California as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). With a special focus on early childhood development, she is a senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing our understanding and support of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults. She trains clinicians in the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health (DMH) as an independent contractor. Currently in private practice in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Delahooke consults with parents, preschools, regional centers, public agencies, and school districts in the areas of screening, assessment, intervention and support for families, infants, toddlers and children. She is the author of Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention (PESI, 2017), and the award-winning Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges, which describes a contemporary, neurodevelopmental approach useful for all childhood professionals.