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Exploring the Essential Features of “Jeffrey Bernstein, Janine Halloran & Kellie Bailey – Anger Management for Kids and Teens: Professional Online Certification Course – PESI”
Become an expert in working with angry kids and teens
with 150 quick, easy, high-impact strategies,
worksheets, games, and exercises
Anger is one of the most natural emotions for kids to feel. And one of the toughest, most triggering, and most uncomfortable for us to work with.
But it’s ok to be angry. And to express it. Because bottling it up just doesn’t work.
The problem is that kids don’t know “how” to be angry.
And when they don’t, anger can ignite like a fiery storm, quickly turning into disrespect, aggression, defiance, and outbursts – clouding their world with frustration, stealing away moments of joy, and making your work with them feel impossible.
That’s why I developed this course.
To share the secrets I’ve learned in working with over 2000 angry and defiant children and their families and give you the blueprint to teach kids and teens how to be angry in healthy ways that will serve them their entire lives…
…and make working with them less stressful and more rewarding for you than ever before.
I’ve included a complete toolbox of over 150 quick, easy, high-impact strategies along with printable worksheets, games, and exercises you can start using right away to:
- End power struggles at home and school
- Reduce and prevent angry outbursts, aggression, and violence
- Cultivate emotional intelligence, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Help kids trust and value adults
- Offer healthier alternatives to angrily shutting down or lashing out
- And much more!
Healthy anger management is the best gift you can give the kids you work with (and yourself).
Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein
In This Course, You’ll Discover…
You’ll get essential strategies to support kids and adolescents who display
disrespect, aggression, defiance, outbursts, and other manifestations of anger.
Child and Adolescent Anger Management Certification Course
Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD
Course Outline
Neuroscience Basis of Anger in Children & Teens
- Anger processing in child and teen brains
- The fight-flight-freeze & anger response
- Neuroscience of the body-mind anger cycle
- Threat response and lack of emotional safety
Connection between Anger and Learning Differences, ADHD, ODD, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and More
- Connections between learning differences, ADHD & ODD
- Mechanisms of anxiety underlying anger
- The link of depression to anger
- Role of trauma in suppressed and expressed anger
- OCD and anger
- Addictions and anger
Create Emotional Safety and Approach Sensitive Subjects
- Anger, fear, guilt, resentment, and shame
- Underlying thoughts and emotions
- Behaviors at school, peer struggles, body image concerns, and family stressors
- How empathy uncovers and diffuses anger
Myths About Anger and the Mistakes That Come with Them
- The “measure up myth” and other societal pressures
- Why oppositional children and teens want to be equal to adults
- How perceived violations of fairness become embedded in rigid distortions
- How positive emotions are incompatible with forming and holding on to anger
- Self-reflection activity
Anger Triggers: Help Kids Identify Them
- Throwing spaghetti, what sticks?
- Drawing out the short and long fuse
- The “anger triggers pizza”
- Anger logs and thermometers with children
- Tough situations: Transitioning off video games
- Homework, siblings, hearing “no” from parents
Mindfulness & Relaxation Techniques: Let Go of Anger in the Moment
- Reset anger with belly breathing
- Guided imagery
- Squeezing the lemon and other progressive muscle relaxation techniques
- Body scan strategies to promote awareness
- “Silly strides” walking for younger children
Cognitive Techniques for Anger-Drive Dysfunctional Thoughts
- CBT exercises to help the brain identify, challenge & reduce negative self-talk
- Easy-to-grasp cognitive restricting language
- “Talk” and “non-talk” kids — how to get each type to buy into sharing angry thoughts
- Finding acceptance and letting go of “whatever”
- Distraction, the pink giraffe, and other disengagement strategies
Positive Psychology Approaches to Managing Anger
- Seeing strengths
- Opening up to optimism
- Grabbing some gratitude
- Finding flow
- Gathering hidden grit and gaining it for the future
- Creating an anger success catch book
Empower Kids to Problem Solve: Assertiveness, Communication and Conflict Resolution Skill Building
- Putting “whatever” to work
- Overcoming the “I Don’t Knows”
- Mindful listening, speaking, and messaging
- Protect kids from social media
- Defuse anger with humor
Coaching Parents & Caregivers to Become Collaborative
- Looking out for negative labels
- The Pace Car, Chunky Soup, and other metaphors
- Why understanding struggling children and teens is just as important as respecting and loving them
- The “Struggle With” Vs “Choose Not” dilemma of impulse control
- Self-reflection exercise for participants to use with parents
Strategies for Online Anger Counseling
- Belly breathing in the house
- Expanding counseling role to teacher, puppeteer, entertainer, and comic
- Using therapeutic card decks and online whiteboards for collaboration
- What’s in the background?
- Apps, videos, and workbooks to promote home-based anger management
Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning
- Case study reviews
- Establish short-term and long-term goals to measure success
- Strategies for working with groups
- Self-harm and other harm considerations
- Risks and limitations of anger management approaches for children and teens
Meet the Anger Management Experts
Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD, is a psychologist, author, and expert with over 32 years of experience specializing in child, adolescent, couples, and family therapy.
He is the author of seven books: The Anxiety, Depression, & Anger Toolbox for Teens; The Stress Survival Guide for Teens; Mindfulness for Teen Worry; 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child; 10 Days to a Less Distracted Child; Liking the Child You Love and Why Can’t You Read My Mind. Dr. Bernstein has also published the Letting Go of Anger Therapeutic Card Deck, a therapeutic card deck widely used by mental health professionals.
Janine Halloran, MA, LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 20 years of experience working with children, teens, and their families. She is the founder and CEO of Coping Skills for Kids, where she creates and curates tools & resources to help adults teach kids healthy ways to deal with stress, anxiety, and anger. She is the author of the Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger (PESI, 2018) and Social Skills for Kids: Over 75 Fun Games & Activities for Building Better Relationships, Problem Solving & Improving Communication (PESI, 2018).
Kellie Doyle Bailey, MA, CCC-SLP, MMT/SELI, is a veteran speech-language pathologist of more than 30 years and a certified mindfulness/social-emotional learning (SEL) specialist. She is the founder of Calm Cool Kids Educate and provides workshops and trainings for families, educators, and community partners to learn the importance of using mindful practices as a tool for SEL development. Some Days I Flip My Lid and Some Nights I Flip My Lid are her two other books.
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