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Adults are often at a loss when it comes to handling defiance and power struggles. Some lecture the child on disrespectful behavior. Others ignore it, hoping it will go away. All parents find it a frustrating and annoying part of the parenting experience (the same may be said for many clinicians). For clinicians, we have only limited time with our young clients and we need to manage challenging and...

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Healthy professional and personal relationships rely heavily on effective and respectful communication skills. Professionals can benefit from enhancing their repertoire of communication techniques to improve the quality of relationships with families and children who have communication skills deficits. The competent use of language can increase young clients’ self-esteem, motivate them to learn, engage their willing cooperation, defuse power struggles, and teach conflict resolution skills.

The purpose of...

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Clinicians working with students struggling at grade level are committed to raising their student’s achievement ability by creating opportunities to learn. In this course, clinicians will learn new techniques that can help support, motivate, and encourage these students without enabling them. Clinicians can do much to minimize “learned helpless” behavior that many of these students exhibit. This course will indicate how to offer support to parents and partner with...

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Health professionals are treating an increasing number of children who have difficulty coping with 21st century everyday life. Issues that are hard to deal with include excessive pressure to succeed in school, bullying, divorce, or even abuse at home.  

This course provides a working definition of resilience and descriptions of the characteristics that may be associated with better outcomes for children who confront adversity in their lives....

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As clinicians, we want to be in a position to help parents deal with any issues pertaining to our clients. We must find ways to support parent competence, serving as a resource for them (Czapanskiy, 2014). Parents require strategies to help them connect with and nurture their children. Most important, the support of parents might include assisting them in managing their own emotions, (Harvey, 2017), most...

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This 2-hour course provides strategies to help adults and children overcome executive functioning deficits. As human beings, we have a built-in capacity to accomplish goals and meet challenges through the use of high-level cognitive functions called “executive functioning” skills. These are the skills that help us to decide which activities and tasks we will pay attention to and which ones we will choose to ignore or postpone.