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.

This program as been

Approved for Continuing Education Hours

for Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Art therapists

This program has been approved for 1 Continuing Education hours for Social Work & Counselor CEU hours by the State of Ohio Counselor Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board (Approved Provider number: 50-32634). Course Approval #: 20-1375183. To receive CEUs, follow the directions in the final lesson of the online course.

Not in Ohio or an Ohio Nurse? The certificate and hours you receive are usually approved or accepted by many other licensing boards.

Foster-Adoptive Parents: Our trainers are all licensed professionals. and in most cases are approved trainers for Ohio (OCWTP) and/or San Diego (SD-FAKCE). Foster Parents Toolshop has more, newer, and less costly (usually free) webinars than FosterParentCollege!

Please send a link to this page to your licensing board or caseworker to verify if they accept these Ohio State CEUs.

Course Preview

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

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

Keep Cool - Part1 - Video2: Anger & Stress Basics

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

KeepCool_HAND02-ALL-KidsHaveStressToo.pdf

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

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

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

Keep Cool - Part 5: ADVANCED teachings

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)

Bless Your Trigger Buttons poster

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

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

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

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

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

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

KeepCool_HAND04-EFTdiagramHandout.pdf

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

Preview

PART 4 - VIDEO 4: Quiz

To Get a Certificate, follow these 3 steps.

We hope you have enjoyed this course. To get credit and a certificate, please do the following 3 tasks.

Step 1. Complete all quizzes.

Step 2. Check off ALL lessons as being "complete." (even "optional" lessons or ones you aren't taking action on, like maybe the CEU certificate. ALL lessons must be marked "complete" for your status to be "done."

Step. 3. When these 2 steps are complete, your certificate will be automatically generated and available for download in your account.

Take these ADDITIONAL steps if you want Continuing Education Units for watching the video