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Internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke comes to GPS with an updated, integrated mind/body approach to solving behavioral challenges and developmental differences respectfully and successfully.
Dr Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg – important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of their feelings of safety, and security. She seeks to reframe our understanding of these behaviors by integrating perspectives from child development, brain science, mental health, and child and parent experiences to guide participants towards insight and compassionate approaches that are respectful of neurodiversity. This impactful presentation will offer professionals and parents the tools and techniques needed to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.
And now from this leading child psychologist comes her just released book, Brain-Body Parenting which is a groundbreaking new understanding of children’s behavior, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children.
Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has routinely counseled distraught parents who struggle to manage their children’s challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are understandably focused on correcting or improving a child’s lack of compliance, emotional outbursts, tantrums, and other “out of control” behavior. But, as she has shared with these families, a perspective shift is needed. Behavior, no matter how challenging, is not the problem but a symptom; a clue about what is happening in a child’s unique physiologic makeup.
In Brain-Body Parenting, Dr. Delahooke offers a radical new approach to parenting based on her clinical experience as well as the most recent research in neuroscience and child psychology. Instead of a “top-down” approach to behavior that focuses on the thinking brain, she calls for a “bottom-up” approach that considers the essential role of the entire nervous system, which produces children’s feelings and behaviors.
When we begin to understand the biology beneath the behavior, suggests Dr. Delahooke, we give our children the resources they need to grow and thrive—and we give ourselves the gift of a happier, more connected relationship with them. Brain-Body Parenting empowers parents with tools to help their children develop self-regulation skills while also encouraging parental self-care, which is crucial for parents to have the capacity to provide the essential “co-regulation” children need. When parents shift from trying to secure compliance to supporting connection and balance in the body and mind, they unlock a deeper understanding of their child, encouraging calmer behavior, more harmonious family dynamics, and increased resilience.
Delahooke is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. Her just released book is Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids.
She is a senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents, and adults. She is a trainer for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and is a member of the American Psychological Association and holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in California, as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). Dr. Delahooke is also a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies.
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