Self-regulation Training Book Now Available!

After several requests, we are proud to announce that the Self-regulation Training information is now available in a workbook.

"Helping Young People Learn Self-regulation" is now available through Youthlight Publishing. Self-regulation includes a universal set of skills necessary for academic success, emotional control and healthy social interaction. With this single resource you will be able to address children's anger problems, academic performance challenges, anxieties, school safety issues, self-esteem, social skills and much more.

As the term “self-regulation” suggests, this approach focuses on teaching children how to regulate their own emotions and behaviors. The authors have split the self-regulation training process into three functional area: physical, emotional, and cognitive. Using strategies based soundly upon the evidence base of cognitive-behavioral psychology, this resource will help you move children progressively through skill areas in each of these three domains.

Please contact author/trainer Brad Chapin, LCP, LMLP for more information about conducting a training in your area.
Brad.chapin@cpschallenge.com

Using REBT to Promote Self-reguation in Children

The Challenge Software Program for children was designed to help children establish healthy thinking patterns and learn to identify and effectively challenge thoughts that are unhealthy.

Over the past few years this program has helped hundreds of children do just that. We continue to hear examples where the program is being used to help children struggling to learn how to regulate their mood and behavior. These examples come from children who have experienced trauma, depression, anxiety, and numerous other issues.

Here is an example submitted by one of the children using the Challenge Software Program. Think about how powerful this change in thinking will be for this child.

"I remember a family friend giving me and my friend a bath when we were young.

He put us in the tub and touched me in ways he shouldn't have.

The child reports thinking, "Oh...this is terrible. I am bad and feel worthless."

After using the Challenge Software Program and understanding that she can control her own

thoughts and feelings about herself, she writes a new belief:

"It was not my fault. I was a small child. I can be okay even though a bad

thing happened to me."

I recently presented at an Innovative Counseling conference in San Antonio (click here for slides from the presentation on slideshare). It was great to see the innovation and creativity that is still alive in developing new tools to reach the children of today. It was also great to see that these creative strategies are based soundly on solid approaches like Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

We must continue to innovate and create new ways of reaching today's youth. If we do not help them create and maintain healthy beliefs, they will struggle to regulate their mood and behavior their entire lives.

Brad Chapin LCP, LMLP

brad.chapin@cpschallenge.com