Brain Science of Children’s Emotions (Transforming System Involved Youth Tears & Tantrums using Hand in Hand Parenting)

Karen Wolfe, LMFT

Training Description

This training will teach those who support system involved youth a framework to understand the neurobiological basis for difficult behavior in children and 3 specific strategies to use with their youth to teach their caregivers in order to support the psychological and emotional wellbeing of system involved youth who have a history of trauma and attachment injuries.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will acquire a framework to understand how difficult behavior in children is driven by the brain’s limbic system, and why this is particularly relevant to system involved youth who live in out of home care.

· Participants will identify 3 specific strategies for the provision of attachment-based and trauma-informed support to system involved youth.

· Participants will be able to explain the ways the emotional brain works and identify at least 2 ways that impacts system involved youth behavior and at least one game caregivers can play to help children heal.

Agenda

11:00-11:10am  Welcome and Introductions

11:10-11:15am  Introduction to the Hand in Hand Parenting 5 tools & 3 we will focus on today

11:15-11:30am  The Neuroscience of the Tantrum and Recovery Process

11:30-11:45am  How Loving Limits help the Process

11:45am-12:05pm  Parenting Styles Discussion and Outcomes

12:05-12:30pm  Parenting by Connection and Limbic Release as Authoritative Parenting

12:30-1:00pm  Lunch Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

1:00-1:15pm  The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Staylistening

1:15-1:30pm  The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Listening Partnerships

1:30-1:45pm  The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Playlistening

1:45-2:00pm  Questions & Answers and Wrap-up

Meet Our Trainer

Karen Wolfe, MA is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor, and the founder of SF Bay Play Therapy Family Counseling Center serving families in San Francisco, Oakland, and through telehealth throughout California. She has been supporting children and families since 2002 and her specialty is working with families of children with sensory, social, or learning differences as well as an emerging passion for working with LGBTQ+ youth. She is passionate about empowering children to feel whole and heard in this world made for adults, and helping parents find their authentic voice as a parent in a way that heals their own wounds from childhood and adds more laughter and ease into family life. She has served as the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Association for Play Therapy and leads trainings and workshops for parents, schools, counselors, and couples. She and the other clinicians at SF Bay Play Therapy offer child and family play therapy, parent coaching, social skills groups, and emotionally focused couples therapy. They have been on the forefront of creating trainings for the new method of tele play therapy. You can find more information and past trainings at www.SFBayPlayTherapy.com.

This course meets the qualifications for (2.5) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.