This session is part of two comprehensive series:
Birth to Three 2nd Annual Conference PROGRAM A – ON-DEMAND 2
and
Birth to Three 2nd Annual Conference – ON-DEMAND 2
COURSE DESCRIPTON:
Consideration of caregivers as a critical context when working with infants and young children opens opportunities for intervention through coaching, which enhances both therapeutic outcomes and relational health for both the caregiver and child. When caregivers experience a challenge in their child’s development, this is often a traumatic experience. Their bodies enter a state of stress, and their emotions and actions respond as such – in fight, flight and freeze responses. The development of rich engagement between therapists and caregivers and, thereby, between caregivers and their children minimizes the effect of trauma on caregivers and their children through the social engagement center.
General strategies supporting meaningful engagement addressing caregivers’ stress response and tailored to individual learning styles facilitates caregiver buy-in and enhances participation in the process. Framing coaching as a two-process of collaboration with the caregiver as the expert and the therapist as the guide helps breakdown common barriers of work with caregivers. Strategies are posited with an understanding of infant and early childhood mental health and the importance of relationships.
The Sensory Emotional Engagement Model provides a framework to guide interactions with caregivers and children using an understanding of the connection between sensation, movement, and emotion to enhance social engagement and calm the stress/trauma response. This presentation will discuss one component of the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model—Sensory Emotional Engagement Roles—as a framework for working with caregivers.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Relate caregivers’ stress responses to relational health and therapeutic outcomes by utilizing the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model.
- Utilize different coaching strategies for engaging caregivers and enhancing their participation in therapy using the framework of Polyvagal Theory and the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model.
- Choose a strategy for interacting with caregivers based on their emotional states using the Sensory Emotional Engagement Roles framework.
AUDIENCE:
Birth to three therapists including OTs, PTs, SLPs, and Special Educators.
COURSE OUTLINE:
- What is caregiver coaching
- Common definitions
- Reasons for resistance
- Pitfalls of coaching
- Reframing coaching as two-way process to enhance buy-in and therapeutic outcomes:
- Overview of this reframe to coaching
- Strategies to support relationship building
- Strategies to enhance two-way communication and engagement
- Strategies for collaboration in goal making and attaining
- Explore stress responses of caregivers as it impacts therapeutic outcome
- Polyvagal theory
- Social engagement center
- Play circuit concept– Panksepp’s research
- Relationships as a context for treatment through the lens of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Concepts
Michele Parkins MS, OTR is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with differences in sensory processing and integration and challenges in social-emotional development at her practice Great Kids Place in New Jersey. She is the founder of the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model connecting sensation, movement, emotion and personality to support relational health in children and caregivers. She is also a parent of two sensory emotional kids.
Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR and served as faculty for the Sensory Treatment and Research Institute under Dr. Miller, where she assisted in the design of the certification courses in Sensory Processing and Integration assessment and treatment for therapists worldwide. She is assisting with the standardization and development of the latest assessment for Sensory Processing Disorder – the Sensory Processing Three-Dimensions. She serves on the board of the New Jersey Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association where she co-chairs the training committee creating curriculum that brings multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding mental health and early relational health.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele is leading research on the bidirectional relationship of sensory motor and social emotional experience. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books to support parents and families in understanding the impact of sensory processing differences on social emotional capacities including family dynamics and relationships and day to day routines and activities. She hopes to help everyone – children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
Michelle Parkins receives an honorarium from Education Resources.
Michelle Parkins has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
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