How To Surf the Waves: Understanding and Improving Emotional And Behavioral Regulation Skills In Children (2.0 CEs)

Course Description:  This interactive workshop provides participants tools to improve intervention skills for children with emotional and behavioral dysregulation. Blending cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, yoga, and sensory strategies, participants improve theoretical understanding and clinical skills to help children experiencing adverse life events, trauma, or disabilities improve competence in social, emotional, and academic areas.  

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will explore emotional and behavioral regulation skills from a developmental, neurologic, and psychologic perspective and the impact of these skills on children’s competence and sense of self-worth. 

2. Participants will understand the theoretical perspectives workers that support selection and appropriate application of presented evidence-based interventions and strategies. 

3. Participants will understand and be able to implement a wide range of evidence-based interventions to help children understand and improve their emotional regulation and related behaviors as needed for competence in social, home, community, and academic activities. 

Speaker:

Dr. Tracey DeMaria, Doctor of Occupational Therapy OTD,OTR/L (she/her), has been an occupational therapist for more than 25 years. She received her bachelors degree at Colorado State University and both her masters and doctorate in OT from Misericordia University. Tracey has worked in outpatient clinics, early intervention, schools, and was owner/director of Sensation Whole Child Center for many years. She currently lives in Easton, PA and works in Phillipsburg Public Schools in NJ. She is passionate about the power of emotional regulation.

Content level: Beginning

Target Audience: School Social Workers

Refund policy: No refunds will be given.

School Social Work Association of America, 1789, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. School Social Work Association of America maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 7/27/2023-7/27/2026. 

Note: Many state licensing boards impose specific limitations on course content, distance education, or other elements of continuing education, even when courses are taken from approved providers. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that the courses taken will meet the requirements for your license.