Hi everyone! MSPCC and Adoptive Families Together are thrilled to be able to offer an exciting, educational and FREE Training by the THINK:KIDS program at Massachusetts General Hospital on Monday, May 9, 2011 from 9:30am-12:30pm. Please see below for details and please register early!
Lori Baeumler
Program Coordinator for Adoptive Families Together, Kid's Net and KInnections
MSPCC 157 Green St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone 617-983-5800 or 617-587-1522
Fax 617-983-5840
lbaeumler@mspcc.org
www.mspcc.org
Think Differently: A New Approach for Understanding and Helping Children with Challenging Behavior
Richard B. Simches Research Center • Massachusetts General Hospital
185 Cambridge Street • 3rd Floor Auditorium • Boston, MA.
Monday, May 9th, 2011
9:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
This workshop is open to professionals and parents served by MSPCC and its affiliates.
Funding for this training was made possible by a grant from
The Jason Hayes Foundation
Description of Workshop:
This three hour workshop provides an overview of the approach described in the book: Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. The innovative, evidence based approach provides a new way of understanding and helping these kids. Challenging behavior has traditionally been thought of as willful and goal oriented. This has led to approaches that focus on motivating greater compliance through the use of consequences. Think:Kids has some very different ideas about why these kids struggle. Research over the past 30 years, demonstrates that for the majority of these kids, their challenges result from a lack of crucial thinking skills. Our approach focuses on identifying and teaching the specific lacking skills that account for each child’s struggles. The latter is accomplished largely through helping children and adults learn to solve problems and resolve disputes collaboratively and in a mutually satisfactory manner.
The workshop will provide an overview of the approach, provide resources for further study and suggest some ways adults can begin to shift their thinking and approach to foster positive relationships with these children and encourage growth in areas of flexibility, frustration tolerance and problem solving.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-10:15 | Philosophy and the Power of Conventional Wisdom |
| 10:15-10:45 | Pathways to Challenging Behavior: Identifying Triggers and Lagging Thinking Skills |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:15-11:30 | The Plans: Your Three Options for Responding to Problems Break |
| 11:30-12:15 | Plan B: Solving Problems and Teaching Skills Collaboratively |
| 12:15-12:30 | Question and Answer/Further Resources |
WORKSHOP DETAILS
| Questions | Lori Baeumler (MSPCC) at: lbaeumler@MSPCC.org, or Beth Edelstein (Think:Kids) at: BEdelstein@thinkkids.org, 617-643-9331.
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| Location | 3rd Floor Auditorium, Richard B. Simches Research Center, located in Charles River Plaza, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, with easy access to the Commuter Rail (North Station), MBTA Green or Orange Line (North Station) or the MBTA Red Line (Charles St). |
| Parking | Parking in the Charles River Plaza is costly (about $28). The North Station Garage offers daily rates of $20, with a short walk (5-10 minutes) to the Richard B. Simches Research Center. Exit garage and make your way (up Lomasney or Causeway St.) to Staniford Street. Just past 50 Staniford, turn right onto O’Connell Rd and bear left for the covered walkway for access to the Charles River Plaza. Turn right when coming out of the walkway and the building will be on your right, just past the CVS. Go to: http://boston.bestparking.com/index.php#1 to check rates at other area garages. |
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Think Differently: A New Approach for Understanding and Helping Children with Challenging Behavior
Richard B. Simches Research Center • Massachusetts General Hospital
185 Cambridge Street • 3rd Floor Auditorium • Boston, MA.
Monday, May 9th, 2011
9:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
Please fax completed form to 617-643-9715,
email to BEdelstein@thinkkids.org,
or mail to:
Beth Edelstein
Director Outreach and Support
Think:Kids
101 Merrimac Street, Suite 250
Boston, MA. 02114
(Please print clearly and use a separate form for multiple registrants)
Name:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
I will be attending as a: (check all those that apply): ___ Parent ___ Clinician
Other____________________________________
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Organization Name (if applicable): ______________________________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Email:________________________________________ Phone:_______________________________________
Funding for this training was provided by
The Jason Hayes Foundation
www.jasonhayesfoundation.org
Think:Kids
101 Merrimac Street, Suite 250, Boston, MA, 02114
www.thinkkids.org • 617-643-6030
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