OVERVIEW

Emotional Regulation: Teaching Children Calm Course is organized by Professional Development Resources (PDR), Inc.

Course Description:
Emotional Regulation: Teaching Children Calm is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that provides strategies and techniques for helping children navigate their emotions.

Emotional regulation is the ability to manage one’s emotions in order to respond appropriately to life’s inevitable ups and downs. It assists with competent decision-making, augments memory for critical events, and enables productive interpersonal relations. Inappropriate emotional responses are implicated in academic struggles, social difficulties, and many forms of psychopathology. Although children with emotional regulation issues may be at a disadvantage, adults can employ a variety of strategies to help them succeed.

This course provides techniques clinicians can use to model effective communication in therapy sessions and strategies to assist children with navigating the often confusing world of emotions, giving them the skills they need to manage their own feelings.

Learning Objectives:
• Describe the impacts of emotional regulation on language, behavior, and learning
• List the causes and effects of emotional dysregulation
• Describe six ways to help children learn to manage their emotions
• Identify ways of using empathy to help children navigate negative feelings
• Identify four calming strategies for children to utilize with an adult’s supervision or on their own
• List five ways to educate parents toward maintaining a calm home environment