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FREE Parenting Webinar, March 27th
06 years
by signewhitson
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Topic: Parenting the Challenging Child
Description: Please join us for this very informative 30-minute webinar with LSCI Institute’s Chief Operating Officer, Signe Whitson. Some of the topics covered will be:
• Cultivating a positive relationship with your child
• Understanding the brain during stress and conflict
• The dynamics of parent-child conflict (The LSCI Conflict Cycle™)Time
Mar 27, 2019 7:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Reserve your spot for this fee event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kI7LNlp0TDWd8UykjzfgIw
Earn LSCI Certification this Summer!
06 years
by signewhitson
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LSCI Certification Training Event: Aug 5-8, 2019
It may be just barely Spring, but I am looking ahead to summer and happy to announce an LSCI training opportunity in August in eastern Pennsylvania:
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LSCI Certification Training
DATES: August 5-8, 2019
LOCATION: The Swain School, 1100 S. 24th St., Allentown, PA 18103
COSTS: $495/pp before July 15, 2019; $525/pp between July 16-31, 2019
REGISTRATION CLOSES on AUGUST 1, 2019
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Life Space Crisis Intervention is an international training and certification program offering professionals advanced skills for turning problem situations into learning opportunities for young people with self-defeating patterns of behavior. For full course information, please visit www.lsci.org
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FULL ATTENDANCE THROUGHOUT THE 4 DAY TRAINING IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO EARN CERTIFICATION
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Participants will experience:
— Instructor-led teaching and modeling of intervention skills
— Real-life video sequences
— Structured and small group activities
— Realistic role-play activities
— Demonstration of skills requirement in order to earn certification
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Learn what to do with young people who:
* Act out in stress, sparking explosive and endless power struggles
* Make poor decisions based on distorted perceptions & thoughts
* Have the right intentions but lack the social skills to be successful
* Are purposefully aggressive with little conscience
* Act in impulsive ways due to feelings of shame and inadequacy
* Become entangled in destructive peer relationships
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Certification in the skills of LSCI does not expire.
Text: Long, N., Fecser, F. and Wood, M. (1991). Life Space Crisis Intervention: Talking with Students in Conflict. Austin, TX: ProED, Inc.
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If you have any questions prior to registration, please email signewhitson@lsci.org
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To register, click here or cut and paste the link below:
ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM: https://goo.gl/forms/AUkyJdUTJqG2pFrm2
Stopping Passive Aggressive Behavior Online
06 years
by signewhitson
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Taking public jabs at others while avoiding personal confrontation is a hallmark of passive aggressive behavior. For many, it is also becoming a new social norm as more and more of our interpersonal communication takes place online instead of face to face. Passive aggression is a deliberate but masked way of expressing feelings of anger (Long & Whitson, 2016). Through such actions as posting embarrassing photos on social media and purposeful inactions such as failing to stop the spread of online gossip, digital communication has become the perfect medium for sugarcoated hostility.
Please click here to read my full post on Psychology Today about a real-life incident of unchecked, online passive aggressive behavior that humiliated a student in a suburban middle school…and how one astute teacher effectively managed the situation.
The Dynamics of Parent-Child Conflict
06 years
by signewhitson
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On April 15th, my newest book, Parenting the Challenging Child (available for pre-order now at a reduced price!) will hit stores and hopefully provide parents and caregivers with invaluable skills for de-escalating conflict and resolving typical problem situations in ways that build the parent-child relationship and bring about lasting change in destructive behavior patterns. Here’s some background information on the book for you:
Since 1991, Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) has been offered as a professional training program for educators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, youth workers, and other professionals working with challenging children & adolescents. In recent years, the LSCI Institute has worked to translate its trauma-informed, brain-based, relationship-building concepts to the need of parents and caregivers. In an excerpt from the LSCI Institute’s new book, Parenting the Challenging Child: The 4-Step Way to Turn Problem Situations Into Learning Opportunities, the LSCI Conflict Cycle™ is introduced, explaining the circular and escalating dynamics of conflict between parents and children and offering important insights about the parent’s role in either fueling problem situations or halting them before they spiral out of control.
Click here to read an excerpt from Chapter 1, published in Psychology Today online.
Is Google Docs the Newest “Work Around” for Online Bullying?
06 years
by signewhitson
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In 8 Keys to End Bullying, I write about the importance of professionals and parents “keeping up” with what young people are doing online. While those of us *over a certain age* may always be digital immigrants in our kids’ native cyberlands, their safety depends on our commitment to stay as up-to-date-as-possible with the apps, sites, games, and lingo that kids are using.
One of the newest trends for adults to be aware of (read: talk to their kids about in loving, wisdom-imparting ways) is kids’ use of Google Docs–an app most adults wouldn’t think twice about their kids using for schoolwork–to engage in group chats and online bullying. Check it out here:
How Kids are Using Google Docs to Bully Each Other
Bullying Prevention Training in Mineral County, WV
06 years
by signewhitson
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I’m in Mineral County, West Virginia for the next few days, speaking to faculty, staff and parents about practical ways to bring an end to bullying in schools. Really enjoying my trip here, talking with caring, intelligent, insightful adults who care deeply about kids and are committed to creating positive change.
Therapy Dogs at Swain: Comfort & Joy
06 years
by signewhitson
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This year, I connected with a local volunteer organization that arranges to send certified therapy dogs (and their owners) to local schools, treatment centers, airports, hospitals–and almost anywhere else you can imagine. At Swain, the “Happiness Dogs” bring comfort and joy. They are the perfect way to brighten up a student’s day, calm down feelings of stress, increase empathy, and decrease feelings of loneliness. The smiles on these kids’ faces tell it all.
LSCI Training: The Most Valuable Training of My Career
06 years
19 years ago, I was lucky enough to be selected to attend this 5-day certification training…and the rest has been history. I can truly tell you that I use LSCI skills every single day in my work with students and as a Mama. I could never say enough about how rich and valuable this training is, how practical and relevant the skills are to everyday situations, and how profoundly it has guided my thoughts and my actions with young people.
Learn more at www.lsci.org
“That” Kid Who Needs Our Support the Most
06 years
by signewhitson
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This is one of my all-time favorites and worth a re-post every six months or so. Truth be told, “that” kid belongs to all of us as a community because we all do better when we all do better!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-parent-about-that-kid_n_6154898
Here’s the very best part and details the Counselor I always try to be:
If ever, at any point, YOUR child, or any of your children, becomes THAT child…
I will not share your personal family business with other parents in the classroom.
I will communicate with you frequently, clearly, and kindly.
I will make sure there are tissues nearby at all our meetings, and if you let me, I will hold your hand when you cry.
I will advocate for your child and family to receive the highest quality of specialist services, and I will cooperate with those professionals to the fullest possible extent.
I will make sure your child gets extra love and affection when she needs it most.
I will be a voice for your child in our school community.
I will, no matter what happens, continue to look for, and to find, the good, amazing, special, and wonderful things about your child.
I will remind him and YOU of those good, amazing, special, wonderful things, over and over again.
And when another parent comes to me, with concerns about YOUR child…
I will tell them all of this, all over again.