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Why Kids Hate Therapy and What You Can Do About It

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Clinical innovators Dan Siegel, Janet Edgette, Ben Furman, Charlotte Reznick, Martha Straus, Lynn Lyons, Ron Taffel, and Patricia Papernow want you to know that you aren’t alone in your struggle to engage young clients.

We’ve talked with these leading experts one-on-one, and they’ve shared the tools and approaches they use to address the increasingly disregulated, shut-down, anxious, insecurely attached, and emotional distressed kids and teens they see in clinical practice today.

We want to share their insight with you in a new online course that you don’t want to miss: Why Kids Hate Therapy and What You Can Do About It.

In this 10-part online video course you’ll learn:

• Concrete approaches for engaging and connecting with today’s distracted and resistant youth
• Powerful methods for helping kids process uncomfortable emotions like anger, anxiety, grief, sadness, and fear
• Key strategies for creating an atmosphere that encourages play, risk-taking, and creativity
• Proven steps for incorporating mind-body methods and mindfulness practices
• How to involve parents in treatment and give practical guidance to support their child’s changes at home
• Principles for helping blended families minimize disruption and function effectively

Interviews

Session 1: Parenting with the Brain in Mind
Dan Siegel, M.D.

Explore the proven applications of neuroplasticity that you and parents can use to connect with kids and teens. Learn how to:

• Use the brain-based intervention SNAG (Stimulate Neural Activation and Growth) with young clients
• Establish right hemisphere to right hemisphere connection with kids so they feel valued and understood
• Co-construct narratives with children in ways that enable left and right brain integration and enhance their ability to self-regulate
• Customize interventions to meet a child’s needs by working with the four levels of implicit memory—procedural, emotional, bodily, and perceptual
• Enhance consciousness and increase a child’s sense of self by using Dan’s Wheel of Awarenesstool

Session 2: Child Therapy without Problems: The Kids Skills Approach
Ben Furman, M.D.

Discover a fun way to help young clients who suffer from behavioral problems, anxiety, and other issues by:

• Learning to avoid problem and pathology-based language in favor of focusing on the skills children need to move toward goals they themselves value
• Emphasizing hope and playful collaboration in generating solutions
• Understanding how to apply the principles of Kids Skills differently with younger children than with teenagers
• Involving friends and a child’s social network in generating positive feedback cycles and solutions
• Mastering the skills of strategic praise, effective apology letters, and turning nightmares into “goodmares”

Session 3: Using Mindfulness and Meditation with Kids
Charlotte Reznick, Psy.D.

Learn how to use meditation, mindfulness, and imagery (MMI) to help kids and teens access their inner wisdom. You’ll learn how to:

• Adapt mindfulness and other “adult” practices to various stages of cognitive and emotional development in kids
• Enhance your ability to help kids cope with uncomfortable emotions like anxiety, anger, sadness, grief, and fear
• Increase kids’ capacity to focus their attention and better achieve peak performance in school and other areas of life
• Involve parents in therapy and make sure they support their children’s use of mindfulness and imagery practices at home

Session 4: Busting the Myths of the Teenage Brain
Dan Siegel, M.D.

Learn the benefits of helping both teens and their parents develop a fuller understanding of how the adolescent brain works. Discover how to:

• Integrate the latest research on teenage brain development into your approach
• Challenge beliefs about “the raging hormones” driving teenage behavior and other negative misconceptions
• Appreciate the upside of the teenaged brain, including the search for novelty, risk-taking, and creativity
• Use specific strategies for empowering teens based on fuller knowledge of how their brains are organized to shape their thinking and behavior
• Help parents use knowledge of their children’s brain to enrich their relationship with them

Session 5: Engaging Kids Who Hate Therapy
Janet Edgette, Psy.D.

Increase your ability to work with resistant adolescents who find standard therapeutic approaches artificial—even infuriating. You’ll learn:

• How to avoid standard therapeutic pitfalls like excessive questioning, walking on egg shells, and relying on premeditated protocols
• How to build conversations with teens that are therapeutic without sounding that way
• Specific strategies to use with kids who burrow into silence, express their contempt for therapy, and provoke your anger
• How to establish yourself as a trustworthy presence with strategies bringing more accountability into the therapy relationship

Session 6: Brain to Brain: Soothing the Traumatized Adolescent
Martha Straus, Ph.D.

Find out about an approach based on therapeutic co-regulation in which the clinician “loans” young clients his or her brain to help them re-regulate emotion. You’ll learn:

• Alternatives to the “timeout” as a disciplinary practice for out-of-control adolescents
• How to use modeling and mirroring techniques to help teens calm and soothe themselves
• Specific down-regulating techniques to teach kids how to manage their volatile emotions
• Up-regulating techniques to help emotionally suppressed teens express and embrace feelings

Session 7: Parents, Children, and Anxiety: Changing the Family Dance
Lynn Lyons, L.I.C.S.W.

Discover a 3-step approach to use with anxious kids and their often anxious parents that focuses on:

• Teaching the family about the interactive processes that reinforce anxiety
• Shifting emotional tone through humor and play
• Helping families externalize anxiety and develop alternative responses that normalize it
• Teaching children to talk back to anxiety and other means of self-soothing

Session 8: Reclaiming Parental Authority
Ron Taffel, Ph.D.

Explore ways of enhancing parents’ ability to find their authentic voice and assert a shaping influence in their children’s lives by:

• Understanding the reluctance of post-boomer parents to assert their authority
• Making explicit the unstated parental fears that often disempower parents and enable their kids to hold them hostage
• Bringing the child’s Second Family—their network of significant friendships—into the therapy room
• Combating parental isolation through facilitating home-school partnerships and communication among parents
• Helping parents assert genuine authority through “I Mean It” moments in which they express themselves as three-dimensional human beings

Session 9: Family Therapy for the Postmodern Family
Martha Straus, Ph.D.

Enhance your effectiveness in working with kids and teens by understanding how parents can contribute to problems and effective outcomes; when to involve them in therapy and when not. You’ll learn how to:

• Conduct an initial interview that involves parents and focuses on collecting the information crucial to successful treatment
• Recognize the six situations in which it is preferable to see a child separately from his or her parents
• To use the language of play with your younger clients
• Slow down and let children set the pace of therapy
• Use family meals, rituals, stories, and drawings to increase and reinforce changes a young client makes in therapy
• Use yourself and your positive feelings toward clients to affirm both children and their parents