Fw: From Miehl: Kids Do Well if They Can Workshop

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From Miehl: " Kids Do Well if They Can " Workshop

The topic of this March 1st workshop is how to help children with social,

emotional or behavioral challenges. This program is free of charge and

pre-registration is not required.

Miehl

Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Support Services

NSSED (Northern Suburban Special Education District)

Thursday, March 1, Kids Do Well If They Can: Collaborative Problem Solving,

1:00-4:00 PM, New Trier High School, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield,

60093. For Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor in the Department

of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, children and adolescents with social,

emotional, and behavioral challenges lag behind their peers in three very

crucial skill areas: flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving.

Can you think of many situations in a young person's life that don't require the

exercise of one or more of these three skills? Dr. Greene described these

struggling kids in his highly-acclaimed, life-changing parenting guide book The

Explosive Child, which focuses on why kids exhibit challenging behaviors, and

why traditional behavior management techniques may not be effective.

Dr. Greene is the originator of Collaborative Problem Solving Approach (CPS), a

method for helping children with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.

In his view, kids do well if they can; meaning, a child may be very motivated to

do well, yet there is a developmental delay in acquiring skill sets and a

failure to identify unsolved problems. This is very different than a more

commonly-held, and erroneous, belief that a child's misbehavior is the result of

his planned, intentional, purposeful manipulations, or because the child's

parents are passive, permissive, inconsistent disciplinarians. If a child could

do better, he would do better. If a child isn't handling situations in an

adaptive manner, it's because he lacks the skills to do so.

Dr. Greene's workshop will explain the three ingredients of CPS: the Empathy

Step, the Define the Problem Step, and the Invitation. All three are crucial to

the collaborative resolution of the child's problem. Parents, educators and

clinicians will learn about CPS as a process - it's not a quick fix-it. The goal

is to solve problems durably, to teach skills, and to change fundamental aspects

of the way caregivers interact with a child. One could argue that CPS can be

applied to most interactions with any child (or adult), challenging or not.

Sponsored by the Family Awareness Network of New Trier Township Schools (FAN)

and North Shore Academy (member school of Northern Suburban Special Education

District, NSSED). FAN is grateful for its 2011-12 partnerships with North Shore

Community Bank; NorthShore University HealthSystem; Quintessential New Trier

magazine; and The Book Stall at Chestnut Court. CPDUs available for education

professionals; no pre-registration required. CEUs available for health

professionals with pre-registration at the FAN website. All programs are free

and open to the public. For more information, visit www.fan-ntts.org

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