Strengthening Children’s Resilience through the Motivation-Executive Function Connection
April 22, 2022 @ 5:00 am - 8:00 am
Strengthening children’s resilience through the motivation-executive function connection
Friday, April 22, 2022
Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm
Presented By: George McCloskey, Ph.D.
Location: Online Workshop
3 CE Credits
Act 48 available
This workshop will discuss the connection between the brain’s reward center and executive control capabilities, and ways to use this connection to help children strengthen resilience. Parents and professionals can be aware of, and influence children’s motivations and help them strengthen executive control to better handle stress and develop resiliency. Strategies for building a better connection between motivation and self-regulation in young children and strengthening self-determination in older children and adolescents will be the focal point of this session. Concepts presented in the workshop will be illustrated with case examples.
Objectives:
- Describe the multiple levels of a comprehensive model of executive control.
- Explain the connection between motivation and executive control.
- Describe and apply orienting strategies to focus interventions.
- Describe and apply external control strategies to help children accommodate for executive control deficits.
- Describe and apply bridging strategies to help children improve executive control.
George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the School of Professional and Applied Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey has amassed 40 years of experience in test development, teaching, research, and assessment and intervention work with a wide range of clients and developed a comprehensive model of executive control used to guide assessment and intervention of executive function and skill deficits. He frequently presents at international, national, and state conferences and consults with school districts and private schools nationwide and internationally on improving students’ executive functions.
Dr. McCloskey is the lead author of the books Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties and Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment, and his most recent writing on interventions for executive functions and executive skills difficulties appears in Chapter 10 of the book Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners (2014). He also is the author of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales (MEFS) Teacher (2016) and Parent (2019) Forms that have been standardized and published by Schoolhouse Educational Services. Dr. McCloskey is co-author with his wife, Laurie McCloskey, of the children’s book The Day Frankie Left His Frontal Lobes at Home (2021).
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