Managing Emotions and Challenging Behaviour Webinar

This workshop will help you to identify some of reasons why a child may be presenting with challenging behaviours and will provide you with some strategies to help them to manage their feelings.

Maxine McClean will facilitate the event for Professional Childcare Practitioners. She is the Therapy Team Leader at Sensational Kids, Child Development Centre in Kildare and is an experienced, sensory trained, Paediatric Occupational Therapist.

Workshop Objectives:

• Highlight the difference between sensory regulation and emotional regulation and their impacts on everyday life and interactions.

• Understand what impacts on a child’s sensory and emotional regulation and identify possible triggers

• Understand the difference between a meltdown and a tantrum and introduce behaviour management strategies

• Introduce different levels of regulation to support children in developing regulation skills.

• Help children to identify what emotions they are feeling and use ways to express their emotions.

• Introduce strategies to support sensory regulation and tools that children can use to achieve self-regulation.