Date and Time: May 1, 2024 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Webinar Description:
With increasing occupational therapy referrals focused on emotional dysregulation, it is important for therapists to be confident in their skills for co-regulation, and their ability to coach parents and teachers to support a dysregulated child/youth.
Nicole will present practical strategies and clinically sound information about regulation, to improve the ability of therapists, parents, and teachers to support a child who is dysregulated.
Effective caregiver consultations, that help a child's caregivers to develop skills and tools to more effectively guide their child/youth, can have a big impact on a child's development. In addition to meeting with parents to share tools to improve skills at home, OTs often participate in team meetings to share resources and strategies with a child's educational team, to increase success at school. By supporting caregivers with resources and strategies for use at home and school, we allow a child to have infinitely more opportunities for skill practice and receive consistent modelling and cueing throughout their week.
By the end of this webinar you will be able to:
- Identify 10 factors that impact regulation and understand why these are important to share with caregivers during OT-caregiver coaching sessions.
- Name 5 co-regulation skills that are important when supporting a dysregulated child.
- Share 4 co-regulation games with parents and teachers.
Presenter:
Nicole Raftis (she/her), OT Reg. (Ont.) is a graduate of Queens University's School of Rehabilitation with 29 years of paediatric experience. She has been on the OSOT Child & Youth Mental Health Team for 10 years. Nicole has worked at Vancouver's Sunny Hill Children's Treatment Center (Autism Assessment Team, Substance Exposure Team, Traumatic Brain Injury Team), the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health units), multiple school care programs, and multiple private practices including her current roles at Insight Psychology in Guelph and Pathways Therapy where she directs the OT Pathways Ponies Program (occupational therapy with equines). Nicole is passionate about sharing practical and clinically sound resources with caregivers and health care professionals, which led to her co-founding TREEO Online Resource Library with Elizabeth Bell, OT Reg. (Ont.).
Fees: (All fees are plus HST)
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