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Full Course Description

Anxiety, ADHD and Anger in the Classroom

Managing the emotional climate of your classroom is crucial to learning. When children are struggling to manage anxiety, ADHD and anger, they can’t focus on the academic tasks expected of them in a classroom setting. By teaching kids simple, healthy and safe ways to express their emotions and calm their bodies, they will be better able to concentrate on their work during the school day. The positive impact healthy coping skills will have on a child’s academic performance is truly transformational.

In this seminar, we’ll learn how coping skills impact a student’s nervous system, and how to use that knowledge to help kids calm their bodies and get ready to learn. Watch coping skills expert and experienced school counselor Janine Halloran, LMHC as she shows you coping skills and techniques ideal for a classroom.

Walk away with a coping skills toolbox:

  • Deep breathing printables
  • Check in sheets
  • ”Anxiety thermometer”
  • Relaxation exercises
  • ”What’s your play personality?”
  • And many more

Be prepared for experiential learning and movement as we try different coping skills like grounding techniques, breathing exercises, and big body movements throughout the day.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Develop strategies for teaching kids coping skills that positively impact academic performance and their ability to maintain relationships.
  2. Analyze how the nervous system response of “fight, flight or freeze” is connected to stress and communicate how coping skills can be used to shift kids to a more tranquil “rest and digest” response.
  3. Execute a classroom routine that allows for breaks to benefit both hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal in kids with ADHD.
  4. Utilize mindfulness and grounding techniques that can be used to help children manage their symptoms of anxiety.
  5. Employ methods to determine the source of stress and create a plan to eliminate shutting down or acting out.
  6. Utilize specific movement-based strategies that can effectively intervene in kids’ anger responses.

Outline

Coping Skills Overview

  • The autonomic nervous system & coping skills
  • 4 types of coping skills—
    • calming
    • distraction
    • physical
    • processing
  • Coping skills checklist to identify current skills and strengths
  • The Importance of preventative interventions
  • 3 prong approach to supporting children’s social/emotional needs
SKILLS AND STRATEGIES: INTERACTIVE EXERCISES
Deep Breathing - Beyond “Taking a Deep Breath”
  • Props —
    • pinwheels
    • bubbles
    • stuffed animals
    • Hoberman sphere
  • Words —
    • to encourage deep breath
    • “smell the soup
    • cool down the soup”
  • Shapes —
    • star breathing
    • lazy 8 breathing
    • square breathing
    • triangle breathing
  • Your Body —
    • your hand
    • whole body movement
Coping Skills for Anxiety/Stress
  • Mindfulness Practice—
    • One mindful minute
    • Spiderman mindfulness
    • Audio and visual mindfulness scripts
  • Grounding Techniques—
    • 54321 grounding
    • Alphabet grounding
  • Identifying and Taming Anxiety—
    • Take-home worksheets to help identify anxiety
    • Thermometer for anxiety worksheet
    • “Sources of stress” worksheet
Coping Skills for ADHD
  • Movement Breaks
    • wall push-ups
    • yoga
    • music and movement
  • Sensory Ideas
    • proper fidget use
    • calming jars
    • using senses (tactile, hearing, visual, auditory, etc...)
  • The Importance of Play
    • recess
    • clubs/after-school
    • open-ended play ideas
Coping Skills for Anger/Frustration
  • Small physical movement activities to manage frustration—
    • squeezing play dough
    • scribble drawing
    • bubble wrap
    • ripping paper
  • Big physical movement activities to manage anger—
    • jumping jacks
    • running
    • obstacle courses
    • yoga
  • Processing anger—
    • comic strip processing
    • what I can control vs. what I can’t control workshee

Practical Implementation Ideas for the Classroom or Office

  • Make a coping skills toolkit for your room—
    • fidgets
    • coping skills cue cards
    • other visuals
  • Distraction coping skills—
    • word searches
    • hidden pictures
  • Creating a calm down spot/calm down room—
    • identify a good spot create an area that
    • is peaceful and relaxing
    • coping skills toolkit
  • Practice your own coping skills—
    • mindfulness and self-care worksheet

Target Audience

  • Educators
  • Counselors
  • School Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/08/2023

Coping Skills for Kids and Tweens: How to Manage Big Feelings in an Uncertain Time and Beyond

School as we know it looks unlike anything we ever could have imagined.

As we return to educating our children (whether in school or remotely) the question on everyone’s mind -- how do we offer our students the support they need, no matter where they are?

Kids will be struggling to manage their anxiety, stress, and anger they feel in safe and healthy ways.  So how do we help them manage the emotional climate that is so crucial to connecting and learning!

Join Janine Halloran, author of best-selling “Coping Skills for Kids Workbook” to show kids simple, healthy, and safe ways to identify and express their emotions and calm their bodies. By discovering coping skills, they’ll be better able to focus on their work during school time and spend time connecting with their families when schoolwork is done.

The positive impact safe and healthy coping skills will have on a child will be truly transformational! Purchase today!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Determine how the pandemic has impacted students socially and emotionally and integrate strategies for better focus.
  2. Apply coping skills for kids to try either at home or school to implement safe ways to express anger.
  3. Develop students' relaxation and coping skills to manage anxiety.

Outline

Anxiety, Stress, and Anger in a Pandemic

  • Explore how the pandemic has impacted the social and emotional lives of our children
  • Why Social Emotional Learning is important now more than ever
  • How our needs and windows of tolerance have changed

Coping Skills for Anxiety

  • Deep Breathing Ideas
  • Mindfulness Strategies
  • Relaxation/Calming Activities for Kids 
Coping Skills for Stress
  • Scheduling to reduce stress
  • The importance of play and downtime
  • Using your senses to manage stress

Coping Skills for Anger/Frustration

  • Understand that anger is often just the tip of the iceberg - a lot of feelings hide beneath 
  • Safe ways to express anger with movement
  • Setting up individual calm down kits for kids

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Speech Language Pathologists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Nurses
  • School Guidance Counselors
  • School Social Workers
  • School Psychologists
  • School Administrators
  • Teachers
  • Special Education Teachers
  • School-based Clinicians
  • Educational Paraprofessionals
  • Other Helping Professionals that work with children

Copyright : 08/05/2020

Social Skills for Kids

More than 75 easy and ready-to-use games and activities.

Bestselling author Janine Halloran has created a treasure chest of practical lessons to teach social skills by playing.

Halloran shares the best play experiences for kids to learn and practice social skills in real places and situations. This rich resource includes reproducible, step-by-step plans for how to play, alternatives to each activity, and debriefing questions to reinforce learning.

Learn new ideas for vital social skills development:

  • Following directions
  • Problem solving
  • Working together
  • Communication
  • Being kind
  • Making decisions
  • Sharing
  • Self-Regulation

Coping Skills for Kids Workbook

Dealing with stress, anxiety and anger are important skills to learn, but not all kids learn those strategies naturally. The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook can help teach children to calm down, balance their energy and emotions, and process challenging feelings. Author Janine Halloran, LMHC, shares over 75 innovative, fun and engaging activities developed from her experience in schools, outpatient mental health clinics and as a mother.

Loved by counselors, educators and parents alike!!

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