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Center for Adoption Support & Education welcomes you to

Strengthening Your Familyan empowering and inspiring webinar series

Emotional Regulation and Relaxation

Techniques for Parent and Child

Penny Zimmerman, LCSW-C

Center for Adoption Support and Education

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Emotional Regulation and Relaxation Techniques

for Parent and Child

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.orgAbout Me

Current position: Adoption Competent Therapist and Intake Coordinator at

C.A.S.E.

Experienced working with children and adults. Specialized training in

attachment, trauma recovery, and mental health treatment.

Previous Massage and Bodywork private practice before moving to

Maryland.

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.orgAbout the Presentation

Purpose: Facilitate co-regulation and regulation for your child through the use of relaxation, mindfulness, sensory activities, and massage.

Light on theory

Meant to provide ideas you can put into practice tonight

Topics:

Relaxation

Mindfulness

Sensory Activities

Massage

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.orgThe Brain

Dan Siegal’s Hand Model of the Brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=gm9CIJ74Oxw

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.orgThe Relationship with Regulation

Fight, Flight, Freeze

Time lapse

Patterning/habit

Imprinting

Pre-verbal

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Strengthens relationships

Repairs breaks in the relationship

Pattern or “imprint” to parent

Teaches children to notice states of arousal

Moderates initial Fight-Flight-Freeze response

Breaks up patterns and lays down new patterns in Fight-Flight-Freeze

Reduces stress, anxiety, and related biochemical markers

Increases endorphins

Improves physiology: digestion, circulation, immune system, sleep, energy, concentration

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Take or make time and opportunity for training and practice:

Ritual

Play

Planned

Impromptu

Stealth

Practice when relaxed and happy as well as in times of mild to moderate

arousal

Practice makes it easier for child to access relaxed state when needed

Practice has a positive effect on intensity and duration of arousal states

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.orgI. Relaxation

Diaphragmatic Breathing

Fill water glass

Rock animal to sleep

Observe

Light touch

Imagery

Waterfall

Colors

Heart

Safe Place

Progressive Relaxation

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5 Senses

Mindful Eating

Meditation

Yoga

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Rocking

With child

Self in child’s sight

Rhythmic tapping, clapping

Swinging

Swaddling/Body Socks

Weight (lap/neck pads, blankets)

Physioball

Heavy work

Bubbles

Sipping from straws

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Getting Ready:

Where

When

Lotion, Oils, Powder

Use of Self

Voice

Use of Encouragement,

Reflection, & Narrative

Use of Props

A Word About Tickling…

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Use long strokes on long muscles

of the body

Complete strokes with same

pressure and speed as starting

Wrap around joints

Use fatty parts of hand on bony

parts of body

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Warming

Rake

Knead

Thumbs

Sculpting

Tapotement

Light Touch

Rocking

Holding

Sun & Moon

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.orgBooks…

Allen, Jeffrey S. and Klein, Roger J.: Ready…Set…R.E.L.A.X.: A Research-

Based Program of Relaxation, Learning, and Self-Esteem for Children

Allen, Tina: A Modern Day Guide to Massage for Children

Golding, Kim S. and Hughes, Daniel A.: Creating Loving Attachments

Kranowitz, Carol: The Out of Sync Child Has Fun

Hughes, Daniel A. and Baylin, Jonathan: Brain-Based Parenting: The

Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment

Siegel, Daniel J. and Bryson, Tina Payne: The Whole-Brain Child: 12

Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

Snel, Eline: Sitting Still Like a Frog

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Email your request to

Burke@adoptionsupport.org

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.orgFor information on our monthly

“Strengthening Your Family”

webinar series, please visit

adoptionsupport.org/strengtheningyourfamily

Registration is FREE for first 300 registrants thanks to a generous

grant from Jockey Being Family!

The codes will be available on the last Tuesday of each month.

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