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Digital Seminar

Improving Executive Functions: Strategies to Change the Brain and Change Behavior


Speaker:
George McCloskey, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 21, 2016
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Description

Featuring George McCloskey, PhD, International Expert and Best-Selling Author of Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties and Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment

Proven Interventions for Children, Adolescents and Adults

  • Profile your client’s EF strengths and weaknesses to target specific interventions
  • Promote EF development – strategies for directing, cueing, prompting
  • Transition strategies from being externally prompted to internally regulated
  • Tailor interventions that can be used individually or with large groups/classrooms
  • Teach your clients to be more independent

Join international expert and author, George McCloskey, Ph.D., for this strategy filled day! Dr. McCloskey has over 35 years of experience as a psychologist and 20 years of researching executive functions (EF), working with leaders in the field and assessing and intervening with the executive function difficulties of children, adolescents and adults. You will learn the nature of executive functions, how to promote their growth, and improve EF difficulties.

People who have executive function deficits can have varying strengths and weaknesses in regulating perception, emotion, thought and action. Dr. McCloskey will teach you how to implement proven strategies that improve your client’s ability to:

  • Get organized
  • Resist impulses
  • Stay focused
  • Use time wisely

This seminar draws on Dr. McCloskey’s clinical expertise of working with clients and students exhibiting executive function difficulties. He uses captivating descriptive examples and engaging case illustrations drawn from his experiences. You will leave with valuable strategies that are immediately applicable to change your client’s brain and behavior!

OUTLINE

Executive Functions (EF) Overview

  • The neuropsychology of Executive Functions
  • Levels, domains of functioning, arenas of involvement
  • A closer look at the self-regulation level:
  • 7 clusters encompassing 33 functions
  • EF development over time
  • EFs, DSM 5® diagnoses, educational classifications

Develop an Intervention Plan: Assessment of EF Strengths and Weaknesses

  • A multidimensional model to guide assessment
  • Norm referenced tests, rating scales and diagnostic interviewing
  • Assessing the impact of EF difficulties on academic learning and production
  • Learning difficulties versus producing difficulties
  • EF-driven Functional Behavior Assessment

Strategies for EF Development and EF Difficulties

  • Create an environment for positive change
  • Develop and use growth mindsets
  • The EF intervention continuum
  • Orienting strategies that focus on goals and outcomes
  • External strategies for modifying behavior:
  • Cueing, prompting and thinking aloud
  • Bridging strategies from externally controlled to internally self-regulated
  • Internally self-regulated strategies:
  • Strengthen independent functioning

Evidence-based Programs and Resources to Foster Growth

  • Develop EFs in pre-school and kindergarten
  • Problem-solving models and programs
  • Cognitive strategy instruction and cognitive behavior therapy
  • Technology-based approaches
  • Mindfulness techniques and EF growth

OBJECTIVES

  • Describe a comprehensive neuropsychological model of executive functions.
  • Explain how executive function difficulties are manifested in individuals diagnosed with various psychological disorders and/or enrolled in special education programs.
  • Apply effective assessment techniques based on a multidimensional framework to determine executive function strengths and weaknesses and to target specific intervention needs.
  • Identify strategies that are appropriate for fostering executive function development and/or for intervening when executive function difficulties are identified.
  • Describe and apply strategies that bridge the gap between “external control” and “internal self-regulation”.
  • Identify and access sources of information about evidence-based programs that foster executive function development and/or remediate difficulties.

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Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

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Social Workers - Social Workers

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists - California Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists - Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists

Approved for 7.5 self-study continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.


New Jersey Educators, Administrators & Education Services Personnel

6.0 Actual Professional Development Hours (self-study). MEDS-PDN, powered by PESI, Inc., is a registered New Jersey Professional Development Provider with the NJ Dept of Education.  


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

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George McCloskey, PhD's Profile

George McCloskey, PhD Related seminars and products

Professor and Director of School Psychology Research

Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine


George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. He frequently presents at international, national, regional and state meetings on cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics.

Dr. McCloskey has amassed over 35 years of experience in test development, teaching, research and assessment and intervention work with a wide range of clients. Based on the past 25 years of his research and experience working specifically with children, adolescents and adults exhibiting executive function difficulties, Dr. McCloskey has developed a comprehensive model of executive functions that can be used to assess executive function strengths and difficulties and guide efforts to foster growth and intervene with difficulties. He consults with a number of school districts and private schools nationwide on issues related to improving students’ self-regulation capacities in the classroom, behavior management, assessment and intervention for executive functions difficulties related to academic and behavior problems.

Dr. McCloskey is the author of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales (MEFS) and 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 function and executive skills difficulties appears in Chapter 11 of the book Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: George McCloskey has an employment relationship with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He receives royalties as an author for Taylor & Francis, Wiley & Sons, and Schoolhouse Press. Dr. McCloskey receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: George McCloskey has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.


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Target Audience

Case Managers, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists and Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Analyze a comprehensive neuropsychological model of executive functions as it relates to clinical treatment.
  2. Communicate how executive function difficulties are manifested in individuals diagnosed with various psychological disorders and/or enrolled in special education programs as it pertains to assessment and treatment planning.
  3. Apply effective assessment techniques based on a multidimensional framework to determine executive function strengths and weaknesses and to target specific intervention needs.
  4. Recommend strategies that are appropriate for fostering executive function development and/or for intervening when executive function difficulties are identified.
  5. Implement strategies that bridge the gap between “external control” and “internal self-regulation”.
  6. Utilize mindfulness, CBT and other evidence-based programs to foster executive function development and/or remediate difficulties.

Reviews

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Overall:      4.9

Total Reviews: 27

Comments

Melissa S

"Great course!"

NANCY W

"Very informative"

BRANDON H

"Great class. Thanks for all the relevant information. "

Connie T

"George made the material interesting and relevant."

Ann D

"Very well presented!"

Melissa M

"This was great. I work more with adults, many with brain injury including frontal lobe, but the content was applicable and can be modified to that population. "

Patricia B

"Very comprehensive---excellent"

Cindy M

"Very worthwhile and interesting course! Thank you!"

Abby B

"Live webinar was a great option. Dr. McCloskey was easy to listen to and is clearly very knowledgable about the topic he presented on! "

Rebecca V

"Wonderful conference I learned a tremendous amount of information"

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