Join Dr Christina Reese for her live CPD workshop and discover how to transform your skills!
Event Dates: 11 July 2020
Venue: Kensington, London
As a therapist or teacher, you are faced with the challenge of meeting the social and emotional needs of all your students or children you provide care for. This can be challenging enough with typical learners but it is even more difficult with those who have experienced trauma or have mental health challenges. Students who have experienced trauma often present as difficult to engage and display problematic behaviour such as a low frustration tolerance, angry outbursts or difficult social relationships. These behaviours all get in the way of teaching and learning.
When a student has experienced trauma, he/she often spends much of the day in fight/flight/freeze mode which limits their capacity to learn. Their outwardly aggressive and irritable behaviours also disrupt the flow in the classroom, requiring your time and attention. Despite the amount of time you invest in behaviour charts or incentives for good behaviour, traditional behavioural approaches to classroom management and a punitive approach to discipline simply are not effective.
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Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behavior, Improve Learning Outcomes and Increase Engagement
Join Dr. Reese and learn how a trauma-informed approach will greatly reduce challenging behaviour, improve student engagement and increase learning outcomes. Leave this workshop with new strategies, tools and resources to reduce students’ impulsiveness, aggressive behaviours and inattention and increase their focus, attention and compassion. While this positive approach is absolutely essential for students with trauma, it will also greatly benefit each and every student in your classroom or community. Return to your school with:
- Research-based practices to establish a trauma-informed classroom
- A plan to develop positive relationships and build trust with your hard-to-reach students
- Proven techniques for communicating more effectively and collaboratively with challenging students
Cognitive skill-building strategies which incorporate the science of neuroplasticity and the strengths-based perspective of neurodiversity
- Analyse the ways in which poverty and mental health contribute to trauma responses thus informing your approach to working with all students.
- Determine how trauma impacts a child’s development and develop strategies for meeting his or her needs.
- Explore how exposure to adverse childhood experiences determines the likelihood of developmental trauma and its impact on level of functioning across the lifespan.
- Establish a collaborative approach to discipline and demonstrate how this fosters intrinsic motivation for behaviour change in the child.
- Practice techniques to establish positive relationships and build trust with hard-to-reach students thus increasing their social and academic success.
- Explore mindfulness activities that foster student self-awareness, self-regulation and the ability to focus as it relates to impulsive behavior and attention.
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Location: 380 Kensington High St, Kensington, London, England W14 8NL, United Kingdom
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Christina Reese, LCPC, PhD, has been working with children impacted by trauma for over 15 years, and has recently completed training as a TBRI Practitioner. She helps children and their families impacted by a variety of traumas, providing both in-home and in-school therapy to these children. Over this time, Dr. Reese has partnered with schools in Baltimore County and Baltimore City to help teachers find interventions that get results in the classroom. A passionate advocate for children and their families, she has worked with children in court-ordered drug treatment at the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, as well as in residential treatment centers and in the community. Dr. Reese, a recognized attachment and trauma professional, has created a comprehensive guide that explains attachment over a lifetime. Her book, Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan, released in October 2018, offers trauma-informed strategies to facilitate connection, rebuild trust and restore positive emotions.
Dr. Reese is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland and Pennsylvania as well as a licensed clinical supervisor. She received her master’s degree in community counseling from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and her Ph.D. in counselor education from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Past work experiences include being director of a mental health clinic and the case manager of the Howard county Cold Weather Shelter, working with homeless individuals and families. Additionally, Dr. Reese is very passionate about her work focusing on attachment and has extensive experience with adoptive families and with children in foster care. Dr. Reese is a TBRI Practitioner.
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