MASTERCLASSES
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Empowering Neurodivergent Children and Teens for Success in School and Life with Dr. Sharon Saline
In this masterclass, Sharon Saline, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and author of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Card Deck, specializes in supporting children, teens, young adults, and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality, and mental health challenges. With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator/consultant, she helps families and adults improve their communities. With this deeper understanding of complex ADHD, you’ll be able to nurture cognitive strengths, improve social-emotional behaviours and build resilience in your clients.
Detecting Autism Among the Ever-Broadening Spectrum with Dr. Celine Saulnier
In this masterclass, Dr. Celine Saulnier will explain the variability across the autism spectrum based on levels of cognition and language, sex and gender differences, emotional/behavioural regulation, and racial/ethnic differences. Common diagnostic differentials and co-occurring conditions will also be discussed.
The prevalence of ASD is currently 1 in 36 school-age children in North America. The breadth of the spectrum is now so heterogeneous that it becomes challenging to identify autism from other conditions let alone neurotypical development.
Navigating the Intersection of Mental Health and learning with Dr. Todd Cunningham
In this masterclass, Dr. Todd Cunningham explores the intricate relationship between mental health and learning, focusing on how emotional well-being impacts students’ academic performance and overall development. Dr. Todd Cunningham will dive into strategies to recognize, support, and foster resilience in students facing mental health challenges. By understanding the underlying systems of behaviour and stress, we can create environments that promote both emotional and academic growth.
Mastering the Game: Navigating Gaming Trends and Healthy Play with Karen Hladly and Tracy Tsui
In this masterclass, Karen Hlady, a member of the Canadian Problem Gambling Certification Board, and Tracy Tsui, a registered clinical counsellor, explore the world of gaming, including the latest trends and online platforms. They will also discuss the reasons why people play games, the neurobiology behind gaming, and the benefits and risks of gaming. Additionally, they will provide resources and strategies for healthy play.
In this masterclass, Dr. Patricia Papernow will teach strategies for creating a successful stepfamily. Stepfamilies have the potential to be happy and thriving, just like any other type of family. Nevertheless, creating a strong stepfamily requires a different approach than forming a first-time family. Fortunately, evidence-based tools and strategies have been developed over the last four decades through extensive research and clinical experience. With these resources, you can effectively handle discipline, assist children in transitioning smoothly, establish a strong couple relationship, form a stepparent role, create a new family culture, and manage relationships with ex-spouses. By adopting research-based practical tips and effective strategies, you can collectively build a successful and fulfilling stepfamily.
Dr. Reedy presents a formula for increasing resiliency in our children. Using attachment theory, we learn how a parent’s self-awareness and psychological work increase their ability to provide children with a secure base and Self-image. This base is the foundation for the development of a healthy Self. Dr. Reedy says parents must change the goal from raising “good” and “successful” children to raising healthy Selves. Dr. Reedy outlines how parents’ exploration of their own childhood and traumas can impact future generations. Topics include parental anxiety, definitions of Self for parents and children, and how common myths in parenting need to be reconsidered.
Dr. Bryson demonstrates that when a caregiver cares for a child predictably (not perfectly), that child will enjoy the best outcomes, even in the face of significant adversity. To help our kids succeed and feel at home in the world, our children need to feel what Bryson and Dr. Dan Siegal call “the Four S’s”.
Participants will learn how to assess and make sense of trauma-based symptoms, such as dysregulated autonomic arousal, overwhelming emotions, and sensations, intrusive images, numbing, and disconnection. They will discover how to use psychoeducation to help clients manage these overwhelming symptoms and change their relationship to the traumatic events. In addition, participants are taught how to integrate neurobiologically–informed treatment techniques into psychotherapy which help resolve the traumatic past and finally put it to rest.
Dr. Dan Siegel focuses on mindfulness, MWe, and our interconnected reality. Who you are is both an internal (Me) and an interconnected (We) self that shapes your identity and sense of belonging. But how can you be both within the body and between the body and in relationship to people and the planet? In this masterclass, Dr. Dan Siegal will explores how you can combine an inner “Me” and an inter “We” to become a whole integrated self – a MWe!
Julie provides clarity on the issue of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. This discussion dispels some of the myths that surround this crime and provides parents, caregivers and those supporting young people a fact-based understanding of the issue, while exploring strategies to identify risk, plan for interventions and seek community and family-based solutions.
Author and educator Tom Hierck, shares how to confidently and meaningfully support young people who have been impacted by trauma.
In this talk, Krissy Pozatek WSW, will be discussing these enmeshed patterns in the parent-child relationship and how parents can re-write the parent-child script. When a teen is struggling, the parent-child relationship is frequently also stuck in negative patterns and dynamics. A teen may act out through power-struggles, negotiations, manipulation, drama and games in the home, defiance or simply shutting down. Underlying these patterns is typically enmeshment in the parent-child relationship.