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Signe provides training nationwide for professionals and parents on topics related to child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. To arrange a customized workshop on any of the topics below, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com:
Friendship & Other Weapons: Activities to Help Young Girls Cope with Bullying
Friendship & Other Weapons seminars are based on the 12-session curriclum, written for parents and professionals living and working with elementary school-aged girls. Customized training provides information, strategies, and activity ideas for giving young girls the knowledge and skills to effectively manage bullying.
Mother-Daughter Seminars
Parents often struggle with the question of, “Should I intervene in my daughter’s friendship problems?” The line between helicopter and hands-off parenting can get confusing, as adults waver between wanting to protect their daughters from any kind of hurt and believing that girl fighting is an inevitable rite of passage.
Mother-daughter seminars based on Friendship & Other Weapons bring moms and girls together to address such topics as improving communication, building self-esteem, and learning skills for coping with bullying. Girls gain from learning how to talk about the nature of girl bullying and friendship challenges with their parents while Moms benefit from learning the red flags of relational aggression (aka girl bullying,) in today’s social media landscape. Mother-daughter workshops help open the lines of communication and foster trusting relationships between parents and children.
For more information about the Friendship & Other Weapons curriculum or to arrange a Mother-Daughter workshop in your area, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
Life Space Crisis Intervention Certification Training
Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is an interactive therapeutic strategy for turning crisis situations into learning opportunities for children and youth with chronic patterns of self-defeating behaviors. This non-physical intervention program uses a multi-theoretical approach to behavior management and problem solving. LSCI provides educators, social workers, psychologists, counselors, and youth care professionals with advanced skills for teaching and creating positive relationships with youth who:
Act out in stress toward unsuspecting helpers, sparking explosive and endless power struggles
Make poor decisions based on distorted thought patterns and perceptual errors
Have the right intentions and motivation but lack the social skills to be successful
Are purposefully aggressive and exploitive with little conscience
Act in self-damaging ways due to being burdened with shame and inadequacy
Become entangled in destructive peer relationships and are vulnerable to manipulation
LSCI Certification offers 30 CEU’s for licensed social workers and professional counselors in most states. Graduate credits can also be obtained for successful completion of the course. Please contact Signe for full details.
For more information or to arrange an LSCI Certification training for your school, organization, or workplace, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com or visit www.lsci.org for a National Training Site in your area.
Life Space Crisis Intervention Refresher Training (for already-certified LSCI practitioners)
The LSCI Refresher Course is designed for those who have successfully completed the certification course. The 1-day workshop provides a forum for review and practice of critical LSCI skills and discussion about implementing LSCI in the real-world. Participants are given extensive opportunities to role play and diagnose LSCI crisis situations.
The LSCI Refresher offers 6 CEU’s for licensed social workers and professional counselors in most states. Please contact Signe for full details.
For more information or to arrange an LSCI Refresher training for your school, organization, or workplace, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com or visit www.lsci.org for a National Training Site in your area.
The Angry Smile: Effectively Managing Passive Aggressive Behavior
The Angry Smile course is designed for anyone who lives, works, or interacts with a passive aggressive person and wants to better understand and manage the often-troubling dynamics. The 1-day workshop takes an in-depth look at the roots of passive aggressive behavior in children, exploring masked anger at five distinct and increasingly pathological levels.
The Angry Smile training features the Passive Aggressive Conflict Cycle as well as eight specific skills for responding effectively to passive aggressive behavior. The course trains participants in a six-step process for confronting and changing passive aggressive behaviors in the long-term, using extensive discussion, video examples, and role play.
Signe Whitson is the co-author of The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive Aggressive Behavior in Families, Schools, and Workplaces, 2nd ed.
The Angry Smile course offers 6 CEU’s for licensed social workers and professional counselors in most states. Contact Signe for details.
For more information or to arrange an Angry Smile training for your school, organization, or workplace, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Skills Workshop
How to Be Angry workshops are based on the 15-session social-emotioal currculum, written for provide parents, professionals, and kids ages 5-18. Individualized full and half-day workshops provide participants with knowledge, skills, and activity ideas for helping kids and teens develop anger management and assertive emotional expression skills.
Parent-Child Seminars
An ideal way to experience a How to Be Angry workshop is to attend with your son or daughter. Using engaging activities, games, and discussion, parents learn critical skills for role modelng assertive anger expression and receiving their child’s anger effectively while kids learn specific skills, including:
• Standing Up to Bullies
• Disagreeing without Arguing
• Making and Refusing Requests
• Responding to Anger
• Finding Win-Win Solutions
Parents and kids alike benefit from improved understanding of personal anger atyles (aggression, passive Aggression and passivity) and knowing how to replacing self-defeating patterns with relationship-enhancing assertive communication.
For information on bringing How to Be Angry workshops to your school or organization, please contact Signe via e-mail at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
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The Angry Smile comprehensively examines passive aggressive behavior in children, adolescents, and adults within families, school settings, and the workplace.
Readers learn how to stop:
Frustrating arguments
Endless conflict cycles
Relationship-damaging wars of words
The powerful six-steps of Benign Confrontation
Benign Confrontation equips readers to unmask the hidden anger of a passive aggressive person, change the destructive nature of this behavioral pattern, strengthen the relationship, increase self-awareness, and affirm areas of competence.
Check out these video segments featuring The Angry Smile, on WFMZ-TV.
Click here to purchase your own copy of The Angry Smile at the $26 publisher’s rate.
To arrange 1-day Angry Smile training seminars for your school, organization, or workplace, please email Signe@SigneWhitson.com
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Please check out the links below to read my articles published on the following topics:
Bullying:
Empathy for the Bully?
Keeping Bullies at Bay: Assertive Communication Skills for Kids
This Too Shall Pass: What Parents Need to Know to Protect Their Kids from Bullying
Sticks and Stones: 3 Top Book Picks for Teaching Kids the Power of Words
Little Girls Can be Mean: A Book Review
Assertive Anger Expression for Children & Teens:
Teaching Assertive Anger Expression to Kids
On the Receiving End: Teaching Kids to Respond Well to Anger
Managing Passive Aggressive Behavior:
Three Steps for Improving Communication with a Passive Aggressive Partner
Three Strategies for Responding to a Passive Aggressive Spouse
Arguments at Chore Time: 4 Steps for Effectively Confronting Your Child’s Passive Aggressive Behavior
Passive Aggression: 5 Reasons This Behavior Happens at Work
Fine. Whatever. 7 Passive Aggressive Phrases to Watch Out For
10 Common Passive Aggressive Phrases to Avoid
Being a Mom:
A Role Model of Imperfection
4 Rules for Cell Phone Use by Kids
Are You Two at it Again? Why Sibling Rivalry Can Be Good for Kids
Handling Sibling Rivalry: Fairness vs. Equality
There Goes Mom of the Year: A Lesson on Personal Responsibility
What Your Children Will Teach You
Use It Or Lose It: How My Daughter’s Closet Reminds Me to Live in the Moment
The Food-Mood Connection
For Richer or For Poorer: Making Contradictions Work for a Successful Marriage
Parenting and Child Development:
From Perfection to Personal Bests: 7 Ways to Nurture Your Gifted Children
Very Funny! Why Sarcasm is No Laughing Matter for Kids
The Baby and the Butterfly
Praise for Praise: Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem
What Is A Friend? A Brainstorming Exercise for Kids
Helping Kids Cope with Change
All I Ever Needed to Know About Negotiation, I Learned From Silly Bandz
Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Top Reasons to Involve Your Kids in Sports
Please Listen.
Family Traditions, Activities and Crafts
Collections Contained: Helping Your Little Saver Preserve Precious Memories
Eating Ice Cream Blindly
Beating the Heat: Indoor Play Ideas for Your Creative Kid
Saving Summer
How Did You Spend Your Summer? Making Charitable Memories with Children
Make Your Own Book Kits for Budding Writers
10 Ways to Spend a Snow Day
Clean Enough: Keeping the Focus on Family During Holiday Guest Preparations
Please also visit me on the Bloggers pages at Psychology Today Online!
LSCI Training & NEW Online Course Option
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Life Space Crisis Intervention is an advanced, therapeutic verbal strategy for turning crisis situations into learning opportunities for children and youth with chronic patterns of self-defeating behaviors. A nationally recognized, professional training and certification program, LSCI views problems or stressful incidents as opportunities for learning, growth, insight, and change. This non-physical intervention program uses a multi-theoretical approach to behavior management and problem solving.
LSCI provides educators, counselors, social workers, and youth care professionals with a roadmap through conflict to desired outcomes using crisis as an opportunity to teach and create positive relationships with youth.
LSCI training provides specific skills for helping children and youth who:
Act out in stress toward unsuspecting helpers, sparking explosive and endless power struggles
Make poor decisions based on distorted thought patterns and perceptual errors
Have the right intentions and motivation but lack the social skills to be successful
Are purposefully aggressive and exploitive with little conscience
Act in self-damaging ways due to being burdened with shame and inadequacy
Become entangled in destructive peer relationships and are vulnerable to manipulation
LSCI Training offers up to 30 CEU’s for eligible professionals and up to 3 graduate credits in Psychology or Special Education.
For more information on LSCI training opportunities or to have the certification course delivered to your area, please e-mail Signe@SigneWhitson.com.
JUST PUBLISHED: Anger Management Skills for Kids
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How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens
COMING JULY 2011
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. –Lyman Abbott
How to Be Angry is a complete social-emotional curriculum that provides step-by-step guidelines for educators, counselors, social workers, youth care professionals, and parents to help small groups of kids develop specific anger management and assertive emotional expression skills. Participants will learn specific skills such as:
• Using I-Statements
• Standing Up to Bullies
• Disagreeing without Arguing
• Making and Refusing Requests
• Responding to Anger
• Finding Win-Win Solutions
Engaging, hands-on activities and discussions are customized for children ages 5-18 in school, treatment, and recreational settings and help youth reflect on important topics such as:
• Personal Anger Styles (Aggression, Passive Aggression and Passivity)
• Choices in Anger Expression
• Public Faces vs. Private Realities
• Body Language and Tone of Voice
• Replacing Self-Defeating Patterns and Committing to Assertive Behaviors
Each session of How to Be Angry features a special “Suggestions for Customizing the Curriculum” section that provides ideas for adjusting the activities, discussions, and Weekly Journal topics to the age, ability, interests, and developmental needs of group participants.
How to Be Angry also features a special “Notes for Parents” section that provides discussion-starters and advice for parents who want to extend their child’s learning experience beyond the group or adapt the lessons for one-on-one instruction.
How to Be Angry features two sessions on one of the country’s top stressors for kids: Bullying. Participants learn how to recognize bullying behavior in all of its forms, from obvious physical aggression to more covert forms of relational aggression, including social exclusion and cyber-bullying. Group members also learn and practice four rules for using assertive skills to stand up to bullies.
For information on bringing How to Be Angry workshops to your school or organization, please contact Signe via e-mail at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
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Friendship & Other Weapons: Group Activities to Help Young Girls Cope with Bullying
Friendship & Other Weapons, coming Fall 2011, is focused on giving elementary school aged girls the knowledge and skills to effectively manage bullying. This 12-session discussion guide and curriculum for parents and professionals is about breaking the code of silence that governs conflict among girls in their early school years. By creating safe, open, and fun forums in which group members can talk, learn, and compare experiences, elementary school aged girls gain skills for speaking up when it comes to expressing their feelings and confidence for confronting incidents of cruelty disguised as friendship.
Friendship & Other Weapons helps preserve the exuberant, confident voices of young girls and strengthen their skills to assertively express their thoughts and feelings in ways that respect others, reject bullying behavior, and reflect important values such as empathy, kindness, cooperation, connectedness, personal responsibility, and self-respect. Based on thought-provoking discussions, engaging games, strength-discovering exercises, and confidence-boosting fun, the hands-on activities in Friendship & Other Weapons build critical knowledge and friendship survival skills such as:
Recognizing the Red Flags of Girl Bullying
Responding Assertively to Bullying Behavior
Realizing Personal Strengths
Connecting with Healthy Friendships
Becoming an Ally to Others Facing Bullying
Resolving Conflicts Directly
Using Technology and Social Media Ethically
Reaching Out to Trustworthy Adults
Making Values-Based Decisions
For more information about the Friendship & Other Weapons curriculum or to arrange a Mother-Daughter workshop in your area, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
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Signe Whitson is a licensed social worker, writer, and mother of two girls. She has over ten years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families. Signe presents training workshops across the U.S. for parents and professionals on topics related to child and adolescent mental and behavioral health.
In her articles, books, and training workshops, Signe provides down-to-earth, practical advice for navigating the daily challenges of living and working with children, tweens and teens. As a mother of two young daughters, Signe relates to parents on a personal level. As a clinician with over 10 years of experience, she shares her professional knowledge and advice for approaching complex issues, such as coping with bullying, managing anger, and changing self-defeating patterns of behavior.
Her first book, The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive Aggressive Behavior in Families, Schools, and Workplaces, 2nd ed. (2009) comprehensively examines passive aggression in children, adolescents, and adults, while teaching readers practical skills for effectively responding to and changing passive aggressive behavior.
Signe offers a full-day seminar on The Angry Smile, to provide parents and professionals with the opportuntity to explore the book’s concepts in depth and to practice the skills of Benign Confrontation. For more information on Angry Smile trainings, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
Coming this July, check out Signe’s latest publication, How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. How to Be Angry is a 15-session group curriculum designed to help educators, counselors, parents, and other helping adults teach kids ages 5-18 how to use assertive communication to express anger effectively. The book includes customized age group suggestions and engaging ideas for at-home conversation starters to help parents pick up where group discussions leave off in facilitating constructive change and lasting anger management skills in a young person.
To learn more about Resources and Workshops for teaching your child skills for assertive anger expression, please contact Signe at Signe@SigneWhitson.com
In the Winter of 2011, keep your eye out for Signe’s third release, Friendship & Other Weapons: Group Activities to Help Young Girls Cope with Bullying. Friendship & Other Weapons is about breaking the code of silence that governs conflict in the early school years. By creating safe, open, and fun forums in which group members can talk, learn, and compare experiences, elementary school aged girls gain skills for speaking up when it comes to expressing their feelings and confidence for confronting incidents of cruelty disguised as friendship.
For information about Mother-Daughter workshops based on the lessons in the Friendship & Other Weapons curriculum, please e-mail Signe@SigneWhitson.com
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