Jennifer Wilke-Deaton – Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors

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Speaker:Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA, LPA

Duration:6 Hours 38 Minutes

Format:Audio and Video

Copyright:Feb 01, 2024 

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Watch this seminar and learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your clients’ most challenging behaviors including:

• Tantrums
• Running out/away
• Noncompliance
• Nagging
• Refusing to work/help
• Yelling/screaming
• Bullying
• Panic/anxiety reactions
• Lack of follow-through
• Not following directions

You will walk away with immediate strategies for out-of-control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Jennifer Wilke-Deaton is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action oriented handouts, you will leave this training with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.

Speaker

Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA, LPA, is a licensed behavioral health therapist working in a private practice setting in Richmond and Lexington, KY, and a nationally recognized school consultant. Jen has 25 years of experience working with crisis management, psychological testing, inpatient/outpatient treatment, groups, families, and the court system. A tireless and passionate advocate for children and families, she developed a parent training program recognized by the Governor’s Commission for the Treatment of Children & Families and Kentucky’s Child Protective Services. Jen helped create a regional children’s crisis stabilization unit, children’s advocacy center, and an intensive after-school program for behaviorally challenged youth. She has published the Creative Parenting Handbook, Parenting Better Children, CD Awareness in Focus: Modern Guided Imagery Techniques for Immediate Practice, CD Awareness in Focus by Kids for Kids, and The Mandela Workbook: Activities Across the Lifespan.

In addition to delivering her nationally recognized training programs for PESI and keynote presentations, Jen regularly speaks on mental health issues and child abuse for Morehead State University, Eastern Kentucky University, KY Child Protective Services, and National Public Radio; as well as serving as the psychometrician for the Center for Academic and Tutoring Services (CATS) – University of Kentucky, and providing psychological evaluations and therapeutic support services for the Department of Disability Determinations and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. Jennifer consults regularly for private/state foster care organizations, social services, schools, psychiatric hospitals, Head Start programs, in-home therapy programs, and case management services. Her specialties are in the areas of child abuse, PTSD, DBT, behavioral disorders, anxiety, autistic spectrum, and attachment. Jen shares time-tested, real approaches from the trenches, using humor, energy and passion for helping others.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jennifer Wilke-Deaton has employment relationships with the University of Kentucky and Hundley Psychological Services. She receives compensation as a guest speaker and royalties as a published author. Jennifer Wilke-Deaton receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Wilke-Deaton has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Utilize clinical strategies to reduce the frequency, duration and severity of behavioral episodes that challenge therapists, educators, professionals and parents.
2. Implement both proactive and reactive strategies for oppositional, defiant and disruptive behavior in children and youth.
3. Discriminate between the clinical presentation of behavioral episodes and psychiatric symptoms to inform treatment.
4. Communicate how a skilled observation of behavior informs your treatment approach.
5. Develop clinical skills for establishing a therapeutic rapport to overcome treatment resistance in children and adolescents.
6. Effectively develop a behavior intervention plan and safety plan across all settings including home and school.

Outline

Behaviors That Make Us CrazyTantrums

• Running out/away
• Noncompliance
• Nagging
• Refusing to work/help
• Yelling/screaming
• Bullying
• Panic/anxiety reactions
• Lack of follow through
• Not following directions

Disorders

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• ADHD
• Mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Attachment issues/disorder, conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorders

Assessment

• The Functions of Behavior
• • Fear-based (Fight, Flight, Freeze or Submit)Escape
  • Attention
  • Sensory
  • Pain
  • Control

Mental Health Disorder or Behavior Problem

• The power of skilled observations
• The interview
• Comparison to the group
• The FBA-Incredibly powerful assessment tool
• The art of choosing a diagnosis (if you have to at all!)

Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks

Treatment Strategies Part I

• Proactive
• • Behavior plans
  • Motivational incentives
  • Set the stage for success
  • Remember the initial goal
  • Appropriately address the functions of the behavior
• Reactive
• • Corrective measures
  • It’s like playing chess in a tornado

Treatment Strategies Part II

• Specific Strategies for the Following Behavioral Challenges
• • Tantrums
  • Running out/away
  • Noncompliance
  • Nagging
  • Refusing to work/help
  • Yelling/screaming
  • Bullying
  • Panic/anxiety reactions
  • Lack of follow through
  • Not following directions

Treatment Strategies Part III

• Specific Strategies for the Following Disorders
• • ODD
  • ADHD
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Working with unsafe behaviors

Treatment Strategies Part IV

• Special Populations & Circumstances
• • Asperger’s disorder
  • Divorce, separation
  • Abuse and neglect
  • Parent misbehavior
  • Foster care

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Teachers
• School Guidance Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• School Administrators
• Physicians
• Educational Paraprofessionals
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children

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