Brain to Brain: Soothing the Traumatized Adolescent

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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

OBJECTIVES

1. Discuss why using “time-out” as a disciplinary tactic with kids is not always effective.

OUTLINE

• Negative Sides of the "Time Out"
• Teens and Handking Stress
• Using Humor to Become Regulated
• "Up-Regulation"
• Adult Attachment Figures in Kid's Lives
• Problems of Isolation