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George McCloskey, Lynne Kenney, Kathy Morris – Executive Function Mastery Course – Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Attention, Memory & Self-Regulation
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With a combined experience of over 40 years working with Executive Function, we’ve partnered with three international experts — George McCloskey, Ph.D. | Lynne Kenney, Psy.D. | Kathy Morris, M.Ed., B.S. — to bring you a comprehensive look into EF
George McCloskey, Lynne Kenney, Kathy Morris – Executive Function Mastery Course – Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Attention, Memory & Self-Regulation
Forgotten appointments, unfinished homework, distractibility, procrastination and difficulties organizing thoughts present intimidating obstacles to make progress for anyone… And the strategies that work so well for others seem to fall short when an executive function (EF) deficit is present.
Your work with individuals struggling with EF concerns may be some of your most rewarding — yet it’s often the work that leaves you the most frustrated and exhausted!
Take the mystery out of executive functions for your clients by teaching them how they think, learn and behave to help create an active role in their own development. With a combined experience of over 40 years working with Executive Function, we’ve partnered with three international experts — George McCloskey, Ph.D. | Lynne Kenney, Psy.D. | Kathy Morris, M.Ed., B.S. — to bring you a comprehensive look into EF, so you can integrate a multidisciplinary approach to promote organization, self-regulation, focus, social-communication, memory and much more.
You’ll not only gain effective assessment techniques to determine EF strengths and weaknesses, but you’ll also learn how to:
- Analyze a comprehensive neuropsychological model of executive functions as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Implement research-based activities to improve thinking, self-regulation and behavior.
- Communicate how EF deficits are present in those diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, Autism, dyslexia, ODD and other psychological disorders.
- Incorporate visual strategies to support the way information is received and retained in long-term memory.
Whether you’re an OT, SLP, counselor, teacher, or social worker, you’ll leave this course feeling confident in your ability to dramatically improve the lives of your clients struggling with EF deficits.
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Through video case studies and visual demonstrations, you will walk away distinguished from others in your field when you advance your practice with these EF strategies that you’ll be able to merge into your existing approach with ease!
Internationally renowned creator of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scale (MEFS), author, researcher, and clinician with more than 20 years of groundbreaking work with Executive Functions, George McCloskey, Ph.D., will teach you how to develop customized interventions that can be used with students or clients across multiple settings, from the private practice to the classroom.
Practical and easy to apply strategies will help your clients develop:
- Critical time/task management
- Personal organization & planning skills
- Academic and employment performance
- Physical & mental health
- And much more!
With Session 2, you will gain interventions to show students how to learn more efficiently while calming their defensive brains to lead to better concentration, improved attention, higher academic achievement and competent social-emotional skills.
Pediatric psychologist, author and international educator, Lynne Kenney, Psy,D., will teach you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology and education for kids to learn more efficiently. You will discover over 30 developmentally progressive cognitive-exercises, worksheets and activities to enliven your classroom.
Walk away knowing how to:
- Improve cognition
- Enhance learning
- Empower children to be better thinkers with:
- motor movement
- sequencing
- self-regulation
- memory activities
The good news is that EF can be taught!
- Inhibitory Control
- Adaptability
- Mental Flexibility
- Executive Attention
- Emotional Control
- Social skills
- Plus, so much more!
Based on years of clinical experience and educational work, Harvard-trained psychologist, Lynne Kenney, PsyD, and school psychologist, Rebecca Comizio MA, MA-Ed, NCSP, have created fun, imaginative, and brain-based exercises for children and adolescents to develop attention, planning, executive function and mood management skills.
Featuring:
- Musical Thinking
- Physical Activities
- Social Interaction Games
- Artmaking
- Perfect activities for the classroom, clinic or home
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.
Dr. Kenney has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor – UCLA/UCLA Medical School. She holds a Master’s Degree in Physical Education from the University of Southern California and a Doctorate in Psychology from Pepperdine.
Dr. Kenney’s books include 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior with Rebecca Comizio (PESI, 2016), the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™ (Mrs. Beetle’s Books, 2017), Musical Thinking™ (Unhooked Books, 2016), and Bloom: 50 Things to Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids with Wendy Young (Unhooked Books, 2015). Her professional development platform, The Kinetic Classroom, brings executive function education and cognitive-motor movement to educators and clinicians worldwide.
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Duration
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