Behavior as a Window: Using Neuroscience to Manage Behavioral Challenges in Young Children

This 3-hour 15-minute FREE virtual seminar explores young children’s behavior and their need for adults to co-regulate and how adults can determine type of behavior before responding with cues of relational safety for young children.

This training is for IMH COP, community behavioral health providers, CYFD staff, and other community stakeholders who work with children, youth, and families. 

3 Social Work CEUs 

Trainer:
Jane Clarke, PhD.

Trainer Bio:

Dr. Jane Clarke has a Ph.D. in Special Education with a focus on Early Childhood Language/Learning Disabilities, alongside master's degrees in Speech/Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities. She has completed post-doctoral work at Fielding University and fellowships in Infant-Parent Mental Health. Recently, she finished a fellowship in Reflective Supervision Consultation at UC-Davis. With extensive experience supporting high-risk infants and families, she is trained in various assessment procedures and interventions, and has developed innovative assessment tools such as DIAPER and DOVE. Currently, Jane serves as a statewide trainer and consultant for the NM-CYFD BHS – Infant Mental Health program and has been endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor since 2007.

• Participants will understand why young children need adults for co-regulation.
• Participants will understand how to determine if it is top-down or bottom-up before responding to behavior.
• Participants will recognize how individual differences contribute to observable behaviors.
• Participants will learn how to provide cues of relational safety for young children.
• Participants will be able to discuss how to target relationships, not behaviors.

This training brought to you through a partnership with the State of New Mexico's Children Youth and Families Department, Behavioral Health Services.