Mindsight in Childhood & Adolescence: Strategies to Help Kids Thrive

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Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.

Dr. Siegel's psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel's books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include:The Power of Showing Up also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.), and The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Siegel is the clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, the medical director of Lifespan Learning Institute, the executive director of Center for Human Development and Mindsight Institute, and the founding editor of Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Daniel Siegel receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Siegel serves on the advisory board for Gloo and Convergence in Washington, D.C.

Objectives

1. Define mindsight and the framework of integration, and how it can help lead clients to health and wholeness.
2. Identify three ways in which Mindsight can be taught during childhood and how to incorporate it into your clinical work.
3. Describe the fundamental aspects of the essence of adolescence as is relates to clinical treatment and four steps to teaching Mindsight to adolescent clients.
4. Explore how brain development affects child and teenage behavior and relationships and its clinical implications.
5. Outline the ways in which the Wheel of Awareness can integrate consciousness and be used in childhood and adolescence.
6. Explore five steps to strengthen the monitoring and modifying regulatory functions of the mind for better treatment outcomes.
7. Apply Dr. Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology based strategies, including the Mindsight approach, to help children and adolescents thrive. 

Outline

Mind, the Embodied Brain and Relationships: An Understanding for Clinical Application

• The influences the mind, brain and relationships have on one another
• Overlaps and distinctions among these three aspects of human life
• Impact on the development of well-being and resilience
• Use the Mindsight lens for clinical assessment and intervention

The Developing Mind in Childhood and Adolescence: Strategies to Nurture and Heal the Developing Mind

• Neuroplasticity: The ways the brain changes in response to experience
• The power of neuroplasticity to transform lives
• The 9 Domains of Integration
• Strategic neuroplastic interventions
• Key elements that promote neuroplasticity
• The fundamental principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
• Integrating IPNB into your current treatment techniques
• Harness the role of relationships in shaping the developing brain
• Clinical research implications and treatment limitations

Attachment, Resilience, and Childhood Development: Clinical Assessment and Treatment for Children

• The science underlying the categories of attachment
• How attachment experiences shape development
• Understand attachment for better clinical assessment and treatment planning
• Examine the role of relationships in cultivating a strong mind
• Techniques for neural integration and self-regulation
• Strategies for children in a clinical setting, at school and at home

Working with the Remodeling of the Adolescent Brain: Brain Remodeling During a Time of Change

• The essence of adolescent development
• Benefits and challenges of this important period of life
• Risk-taking, pushing-away, and sexual behavior of adolescence
• The myths vs. modern scientific views of adolescence
• Practical steps to building a more integrated adolescent brain
• Clinical strategies for staying present through the changes and challenges
• Mindsight skill practices to use with teens

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychiatrists
• School Psychologists
• School Counselors
• Case Managers
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Educators
• Other Helping Professionals Who Work with Children & Adolescents