Intervention to Address Emotional Regulation & Behavioural Challenges
Supporting Children and Families with Emotional Regulation Challenges: A Coregulation Approach (90-Minute Workshop)
This workshop equips occupational therapists and allied health professionals with the tools to effectively support children experiencing emotional regulation difficulties. Through a trauma-informed, attachment-based lens, you'll learn how coregulation—where caregivers and therapists help children manage their emotions—can lay the groundwork for future self-regulation.
What You’ll Learn:
- The foundations and benefits of a coregulation approach versus traditional behaviour management.
Understanding the roots of emotional regulation challenges, including trauma, attachment, and neurodevelopmental issues. - How to use the Circle of Security model to inform your therapeutic recommendations, enabling caregivers to respond effectively to their child’s emotional needs, fostering secure attachment, and co-regulation.
- How to apply the Hand Model of the Brain to explain emotional regulation to caregivers, using this simple tool to illustrate brain reactions to stress and how coregulation helps calm the child’s brain and engage logical thinking.
- Practical strategies for recognizing a child’s arousal levels and supporting emotional regulation in real-time.
- Coregulation techniques that can be applied both at home and in school.
- When and how to start working on self-regulation in a developmentally appropriate way.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is ideal for occupational therapists, educators, and allied health professionals who work with children facing emotional regulation and behavioural challenges.
Participants will leave with practical strategies to implement in their therapy sessions and guidance for supporting caregivers to co-regulate with their children, fostering better emotional health and participation in daily activities.
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Workshop duration: 1.5 Hour Workshop
Cost: $85.00
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About the Presenter:Â
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Alyce Svensk is an accomplished paediatric occupational therapist with extensive experience in the field. She founded and successfully ran Sensational Start Occupational Therapy from 2017 to 2024. Alyce is deeply committed to the belief that every child deserves support from a well-trained and dedicated therapy team. To this end, she has developed a range of workshops and trainings specifically designed to empower professionals working in pediatrics.
In addition to her educational offerings, Alyce provides individualised 1:1, group, and peer supervision, business and professional mentoring, guiding therapists through their professional journeys. Her passion for mentoring and fostering connections within the therapy community is central to her work, as she strives to help therapists achieve their professional goals and excel in their practice.
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Workshop duration: 1.5 Hours
Cost: $85.00
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I found the workshop informative and helpful. I will certainly be doing more research on the coregulation approach and implementing some of this new knowledge into my own practice. A key takeaway was that it is most important to address how to parent responds to the situation and helps the child co-regulate, and that it should not depend solely on the child to regulate themselves.
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Really good way of bringing all the different theories in and explaining plan langauge. I really enjoyed the practical examples included in this workshop. It was very helpful in understanding co-regulation also.
