Keep Your Cool & Help Kids Calm Down - (Course #7 of 10 in the Advanced Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Bundle)

Keep Your Cool & Help Kids Calm Down - (Course #7 of 10 in the Advanced Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Bundle) - 6 hours

Prevent stress from bubbling over and anger from erupting by using the practical tools in this workshop. Discover two simple steps any adult or child can take to create an individualized stress and anger management plan. Understand what’s happening under the surface during anger, how trauma triggers get wired in, and how toxic emotions can create dis-ease. Then learn how to de-program and re-wire these cellular memories to help bodies return to health.

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Learning Objectives:

When you complete this course, you will know how to:

Define what anger is, what causes anger, the difference between healthy and unhealthy anger and healthy outlets for their anger/stress.
Devise individualized anger/stress management plans they can use for themselves, their clients, or for children.
Defuse and redirect an angry adult or child.
Understand the biological effects of stress/anger, what happens and its long-term health effects.
Techniques for detoxing from toxic emotions, deprogramming trigger buttons and reprogramming new habits to balance their biology and prevent or redirect future anger/stress reactions.

Competencies Covered

This course is a video of a live in-person workshop approved by the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (OCWTP) for 6 hours. It provides training in the following OCTWP competencies:

Skill Set: 926-02: Ability to cope with ongoing stress related to caregiving.

926-02-004: Understands the caregiver’s role in helping family members manage stress related to fostering.
926-02-005: Knows how to recognize and resolve signs of family stress related to caregiving.
926-02-007: Understands the impact of caregiving on the marriage or adult intimate relationship. Knows how to address these issues.

Skill Set: 926-03: Ability to develop and maintain supportive relationships.

926-03-001: Knows how foster caregiving can affect relationships in the extended family and in the community.
926-03-002: Knows how to maintain support from extended family members and others.

Skill Set: 926-04: Ability to help children adjust to caregiver’s home.

926-04-004: Knows the stages of children’s adjustment to their caregiver or adoptive families Knows the signs of stress related to placement.
928-01-003: Knows how to help children deal with emotional distress resulting from contacts with primary family members.
952-03-003: Knows signs of emotional distress and crisis in foster, kinship, and adoptive children. Knows how to reduce children’s stress and resolve the crisis without disrupting the placement.

Skill Set: 948-02 Ability to cope with the ongoing stress related to adoptive parenting.

948-02-009: Can recognize causes and early signs of adoption stress among family members. Can obtain help early in the disruption sequence to prevent a full-blown crisis.

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MODULE 0: Welcome, Orientation, Overview (OPTIONAL - 25 minutes)

This module is optional. The first and last 5 minutes are Jody's introduction. The rest are the foster-adoptive parents introducing themselves.

PART 1 - VIDEO 1 - Welcome, Orientation, Overview

Part 0: Introductions

26 mins
857 MB

MODULE 1: Basic - What are Anger, Stress & Typical Reactions (19 minutes)

In this section, we explore what are Anger, Stress & Typical Reactions. Just watch the video, follow along with the handout taking notes, looking for answers to the quiz.

KeepCool_HAND01-3hr&6hr-am-ppt-slides-6up-secure.pdf

1.09 MB

Keep Cool - Part1 - Video2: Anger & Stress Basics

19 mins
753 MB

PART 1 - Video 2: Quiz

MODULE 2: Basic - Stress Management for Adults & Kids (35 minutes)

In this section, we explore

"Stress Management Techniques for Adults & Children"
"How to Defuse an Angry Child (or Adult)."

Just watch the video, following along on the handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 2: Stress Management Basics

36 mins
1.54 GB

KeepCool_HAND02-ALL-KidsHaveStressToo.pdf

127 KB

PART 1 - Video 3: Quiz

BONUS: Resources for Teaching Children Anger/Stress Management skills.

MODULE 3: Basic - Personalized Anger/Stress Management Plans (30 minutes)

In this module, you'll learn how to create "Personalized Anger/Stress Management Plans." Continue referring to the handout you received in Part I, because this is the second half of the morning session. Just watch each video, follow along taking notes on the handout, looking for the answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 3: Personalized Anger & Stress Management Plans

31 mins
1.2 GB

PART 2 - VIDEO 1 - QUIZ

MODULE 4: Basic - Processing-Application-Q&A (29 minutes)

In this module, we are processing what we've learned, applying it to real-life situations. There are only a few slides from the handout, but do listen for answers to the questions on the quiz to verify you watched this video.

Keep Cool - Part 4: Processing & Application

30 mins
1.15 GB

PART 2 - VIDEO 2: Quiz

Bonus Resource (not covered in course): Resources for Teaching Children Self-Regulation Skills

MODULE 5: Advanced - Flash Fires are like Domino Chain Reactions (19 minutes)

You will now be working with a new handout, for the afternoon, which will be broken into two parts:
- Part 3: the first half of the afternoon session, and
- Part 4: second half of the afternoon session.
For each, just watch each video, taking notes on the p.m. handout, looking for the answers to the quiz.

KeepCool_HAND03-6hr-pm-PPT-slides-6up-secure.pdf

3.09 MB

Keep Cool - Part 5: ADVANCED teachings

20 mins
1.41 GB

PART 3: VIDEO 1: Quiz

MODULE 6: ADVANCED – Reprogramming Trigger Buttons - Anger Log (27 minutes)

For this module, just watch the video, following along on the p.m. handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 6: Reprogramming Triggers with Anger Log (CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

28 mins
1.94 GB

Bless Your Trigger Buttons poster

295 KB

PART 3: VIDEO 2: Quiz

MODULE 7: ADVANCED – How Trigger Buttons Get Programmed (24 minutes)

For this module, just watch the video, following along on the p.m. handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 7: How Trigger Buttons get Programmed IN

24 mins
1.87 GB

Conscious Parenting clip

What's your the reticular activating system (RAS)

PART 3 - VIDEO 3: Quiz

MODULE 8: ADVANCED –Trigger Button Activation (14 minutes)

For this module, just watch the video, following along on the p.m. handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 8: Trigger Button Activation

15 mins
1.17 GB

What The Bleep Do We Know--Addiction Clip

PART 3 - VIDEO 4: Quiz

MODULE 9: ADVANCED – Effects of Trauma (22 minutes)

Continue referring to the afternoon handout, because this is the second half of the afternoon session. Just watch each video, taking notes on the handout, looking for the answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool -Part 9: Effects of Trauma

22 mins
1.32 GB

Trauma and Behavior Part 1: "How Trauma Affects the Brain"

Childhood Trauma and Abuse and its Effects on the Brain

PART 4 - VIDEO 1: Quiz

MODULE 10: ADVANCED – Creation of Cellular Memory (Dis-ease) (16 minutes)

For this module, just watch the video, following along on the p.m. handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 10: Creation of Cellular Memory

16 mins
1.14 GB

Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

Placebos & Nocebos: How Your Brain Heals and Hurts You

PART 4 - VIDEO 2: Quiz

MODULE 11: ADVANCED – Reprogramming Cellular Memory (15 minutes)

For this module, just watch the video, following along on the p.m. handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz.

Keep Cool - Part 11: Reprogramming Cellular Memory

15 mins
1.12 GB

Neuroplasticity

PART 4 - VIDEO 3: Quiz

MODULE 12: ADVANCED - Non-Traditional Healing Methods (23 minutes)

For this module, just watch the video, following along on the p.m. handout, taking notes, and looking for answers to the quiz. There is a separate handout for the EFT technique, so you can follow along. It's easiest, though, to just watch and learn, then use the handout later to remember and follow.

Keep Cool - Part 12: Alternative Healing Techniques you can use with Children

24 mins
1.6 GB

KeepCool_HAND04-EFTdiagramHandout.pdf

1000 KB

Watch / Share a video of Jody demonstrating EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

Preview

PART 4 - VIDEO 4: Quiz

Completing the Course for Credit

We hope you have enjoyed this course. To get credit and a certificate, please do the following 2 steps.

To get a certificate for 6 training hours

Complete this Program Evaluation form

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Competencies

This course is a recording of a live presentation of a workshop approved by the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program for the following competencies:

926-02-004 Understands the caregiver’s role in helping family members manage stress related to fostering.
904-02-001 Aware of common emotional reactions to the stress of placement. Aware of ways to help the child handle feelings of sadness, loss, anxiety, and anger.
904-02-002 Aware that negative behaviors may be signs of stress and anxiety.
906-01-002 Aware of typical stresses involved in foster/adoptive/kinship parenting.
906-01-004 Familiar with signs of family stress and the effects of stress on caregiver family members.
926-01-007 Can help family members cope with a variety of stresses related to caregiving.
926-02-002 Knows how foster children’s reactions to abuse, neglect, and separation from home may be stressful for the caregiving or adoptive family.
926-02-004 Understands the caregiver’s role in helping family members manage stress related to fostering.
926-02-005 Knows how to recognize and resolve signs of family stress related to caregiving.
945-01-003 Understands how certain case situations are threatening to families and may result in hostility Understands how some personal behaviors or differences in communication styles may aggravate hostility in children or their primary family members.
952-03-003 Knows signs of emotional distress and crisis in foster, kinship, and adoptive children. Knows how to reduce children’s stress and resolve the crisis without disrupting the placement.
980-02-001 Knows common barriers to effective communication.
980-02-002 Understands how personal communication styles may affect how people interact with each other.
980-02-004 Knows how to adjust verbal communication to the specific persons being addressed.
989-02-001 Knows common sources of stress for caregivers.
989-02-003 Understands the signs and symptoms of stress. Understands what happens when stress in not managed.
989-02-004 Understands the caregiver’s need to seek help for managing stress.
989-02-007 Can recognize signs of personal stress and use helpful coping skills and time management methods to reduce caregiver stress.
991-01-002 Knows how experiences such as abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, and loss of a loved one can be traumatic for children.
991-01-003 Knows feelings and responses associated with trauma.
991-01-004 Knows the relationship between trauma and other mental health disorders.