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The course: Executive Function: Brain-Based Tools and Strategies to Help Kids and Families Cope with the Unexpected by Lynne Kenney and David Nowell

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We know that change can be hard for young people.  But what about unexpected, prolonged, uncertain-of-when-it-will-end change?

Join executive function experts Drs. Lynne Kenney and David Nowell for this compelling 90-minute training on:

• How the stress of unexpected change impacts the brain
• The variety of feelings kids experience in the face of change
• Brain-based tools and strategies to help kids and adolescents refocus, reconnect, and regulate
• And more!

This recording is a must for anyone working with young people today.  Don’t miss this opportunity to add more brain-based interventions to your clinical toolbox – purchase today!

1. Appraise the impact of significant, unexpected life changes on kids’ brain function. 
2. Implement brain-based interventions to reduce anxiety, depression, and dysregulation in kids. 

Cause to Pause:  When Kids’ Internal Compasses Have Been Shifted

• Something has happened – and it has activated BIG feelings, including grief
• Kids have experienced sudden, significant shifts in their lives
• The body and brain are reacting and adapting constantly!
• How does this affect the brain:  Default mode network, the stress response, and the corticostriatal loop

Brain Tools & Strategies:  Guiding Kids & Families Toward a New Normal

• The Thinker and the Caveman
• Don’t dominate – collaborate!
• “Front of Mind” Goals
• Journaling, drawing, painting, writing, and coloring
• Establish new routines, rhythms, rituals, and schedules
• Storyboardthat.com
• HEDYDT? “how exactly did you do that?”
• Increase BDNF and GDNF
• Green time v. screen time
• And more!