The Nurtured Heart Approach

A One-Day Seminar for Mental Health Professionals, Educators, and Parents presenting a powerful approach that consistently produces extraordinary results with ADHD and other challenging behaviors... an approach that helps all children to flourish in remarkable ways.

"This is the approach that I recommend" — Patch Adams, Renowned Physician

Description

A child’s intensity is a gift that needs to be nurtured. Unfortunately, so many people today find themselves struggling with the intensity of a challenging child and wind up being advised to moderate the intensity by using medications as a first intervention rather than as a very last resort. I’ve developed an approach that puts parents and professionals into the driver’s seat and gives them the perspective and strategies to shift children into using their intensity in beautiful ways.

Many children wind up on medications simply because there has not been an approach that consistently helps them to use their intensity successfully. 75% of all children evaluated for conditions such ADHD and Oppositional-Defiance Disorder receive medication on the very first visit. The unfortunate underlying message is: your teacher can’t control you, your parent can’t control you, and you can’t control yourself…you need a substance to control whatever is going on inside you. Parents and teachers can end up feeling inadequate and blamed, treatment professionals can sometimes be at a loss as to how best to help, and the result for the child is being at risk for both side effects that can rarely be adequately explained in the course of an evaluation and for a greater loss of self than can ever be fully anticipated.

Ordinary methods of parenting and teaching typically backfire with intense children, accidentally rewarding children in myriad ways. Despite the best of intentions, the more adults attempt normal responses, the worse the situation can inadvertently become.

The culprits are the methods most people have at their disposal…not the parents, teacher or the child. Approaches designed for the average child are not powerful or encompassing enough to have a transformative effect on children with behaviors involving opposition, defiance or inability to manage strong impulses or emotions.

The excellent news is that The Nurtured Heart Approach has been proven to create the transformation very quickly and in an enduring way. Instead of believing that one gets a great deal more from adults through negativity, and that positive choices are a less certain bet, the child is moved to believing that he or she can fully invest energy and intelligence in successes. Join us for this workshop and learn how this powerful approach can work for you. —Howard Glasser

Workshop Schedule

7:30-8:30	Registration/Sign-in/Coffee
8:30-10:15	Introduction to the Nurtured Heart Approach: Dynamics of the Challenging Child/Crucial concepts for Energizing Success/Therapeutic Stances
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-12:15	Techniques: Strategic Methods of Energizing Success
12:15-1:15	Lunch (on your own)
1:15-1:45	Questions and Answers
1:45-2:45	Limit Setting
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-4:30	Advanced Techniques: Deepening the process of energizing success and extending the system, helping the child to be successful in school and other environments.

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out, in order to receive a certificate of completion/attendance. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be posted on the internet at www.ceuregistration.com.

Course Objectives

1. Describe and utilize concepts that yield full understanding of the dynamics of a challenging child, ADHD, and whether to medicate.
2. Explain why conventional methods of parenting, therapy and teaching often fail with intense children, despite the best of intentions.
3. Shift a challenging child to using his or her intensity in successful ways, even if the child is diagnosed with ADHD, ODD or is difficult in other ways, and regardless of the child’s age and level of severity.
4. Apply techniques to create experiences of success that are more powerful and more extensive than traditional approaches.
5. Utilize strategies to avoid the traps of accidentally rewarding negativity while still upholding a perfect level of accountability for the child.

CE Credits:

Approved for 6.5 CE hours
Psychologists
American Psychological Association—R Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider of continuing education for psychologists. R Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program.

Social Workers
ASWB provider #1082 is approved as a provider for continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards. www.aswb.org. phone 1 800 225-6880, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. R Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program.

California LCSW’s
R Cassidy Seminars is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to offer continuing education.Provider # PCE 418.

Ohio Social Workers
Approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (6.5) clock hours, #MCST040704

Counselors
R Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for certified counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines.Provider # 5633.

Minnesota Counselors
Approved by Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health & Therapy, for 6.5 hours, #2007.CE.100.

Ohio Counselors
Approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (6.5) clock hours, #MCST040704

Marriage and Family Therapists
See information under counselors.

California MFT
R Cassidy Seminars is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to offer continuing education.Provider # PCE 418.

Ohio MFT
Approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (6.5) clock hours, #MCST040704

Texas MFT
Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. (6.5) credit hours.

Nurses
R Cassidy Seminars is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to offer continuing education. Provider # BRN 12224.

Educators
Washington
This course has been approved by the Puget Sound ESD for 6.5 clock hours. Course # SEW706. Forms for clock hours will be available at the workshop. There is a $13 charge for clock hour requests.

Illinois
Provider application submitted. Approval pending. Provider # 080304164719171

Refund/Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations up through two weeks prior to the workshop will receive a full refund minus a $25 administrative fee. No refund after two weeks prior to the workshop. NO refunds available for helpers (half-price registration for help on the day of the workshop) who cancel.

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