Webinar

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Cost: $70

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Certificate of Attendance Available

Description

With up to one in three children struggling with anxiety in this country, overwhelmed adults require a new approach as well as a practical and easy-to-implement toolkit of strategies that work. Understanding the role anxiety plays in a student’s behavior is crucial and using preventive strategies are key to successful intervention. Effective behavior plans for these students focus on the use of preventive strategies and on explicitly teaching coping skills, self-monitoring, and alternative responses.

As a result of this workshop participants will be able to easily implement preventive tools, strategies, and interventions for reducing anxiety, increasing self-regulation, executive functioning, and self-monitoring. 

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to...

1.Describe the relationship between anxiety and working memory

2.Describe why traditional breaks might not be effective for students with anxiety or trauma histories

3.Enumerate strategies for reducing negative statements toward writing

Bio

Jessica Minahan, PhD, BCBA,

is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst,

special educator, as well as a consultant to schools internationally (www.jessicaminahan.com). Jessica has over seventeen years of experience supporting students who exhibit challenging behavior in urban public school systems. She is the co-author of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students (Harvard Education Press, 2012) and author of The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (Harvard Education Press, 2014).