Lecture and Discussion- Participants are encouraged to make the workshop more relevant to their concerns by asking questions.
DESCRIPTION:
Focus is on using participants awareness of their own emotional and psychological needs to create understanding of the child's emotional and psychological needs when he or she is in a tantrum state. This knowledge is then translated into practical technique that the participants can use to effectively prevent and resolve children's temper tantrums.
SUMMARY OF CONTENT:
1) Child & adult correlation of needs
An understanding of basic human needs illustrates the logic behind tantrums.
2) Folk remedies for tantrums
Why "ignoring" is often absolutely the wrong thing to do; how and why "ignoring the tantrum" intensifies the tantrum.
3) Types of Tantrums: Manipulative, Temperamental, & Helpless Tantrums
4) Prevention - Tantrum Ignitors
What causes or what is behind the tantrum?
A Diagnostic Order
Prevention of Manipulative tantrums
Conditional tantrums
Physical Environmental tantrums
Social Environmental tantrums
5A) Prevention of Temperamental Tantrums
5B) Response to Temperamental Tantrums- Dealing w/ a raging tantrum.
Psycho/emotional diagnosis/evaluation
Psycho/emotional connection/validation
Making the touch, show, tone, verbal connections.
The Socialization Message- why it works and when it works.
6) Prevention of & Response to Helpless Tantrums
7) Preventing Self-Sabotage
Learning how to foster the emotional and psychological awareness that enables the adult to follow through with the technique.