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Certificate Course in Self-Regulation and Coping Skills for Kids: Activity-Based Techniques to Manage Anxiety, ADHD, Anger, & More

When you work with kids, you know that many times big feelings are in the driver's seat…

We've all been there — watching as anger, anxiety, or frustration take over, leaving a child overwhelmed and you scrambling to manage the chaos.

But here's the thing: trying to control the situation isn't going to be the game changer…

You need easy to use tools and strategies you can use in the moment to move forward with your kiddos.

This certificate course will give you just that.

Whether you're a therapist, nurse, school-based mental health professional, speech and language pathologist, or in virtually any setting with kids you'll walk away from this certificate course with the best tips, techniques and strategies to use immediately. Join Janine Halloran, a licensed therapist and celebrated author with more than two decades of experience working with kids, teens, and families.

In this certificate course, Janine gives you easy-to-apply strategies to quickly…

  • Build on kids' strengths from the get-go, no more guessing on where to start
  • Make relaxation, mindfulness, and grounding exercises fun as part of kids' daily routine
  • Create individual "calm down kits" and areas in the office or classroom to de-stress
  • Calm the heat of the moment with real-life interventions for stress, anxiety, anger, and ADHD

PLUS, bonus — TWO FREE e-workbooks with printable worksheets, PDFs, and relaxation exercises that you can use again and again. That's a $49 value, completely free.

Best of all, you'll leave this course with a displayable certificate of completion letting parents, employers, and colleagues know you've taken elevated training.

Make therapy easier for you and give your young clients the gift of self-regulation that will change their lives forever.

Self-Regulation and Coping Skills for Kids
Activity-Based Techniques to Manage Anxiety, ADHD, Anger, & More

$329.15 Value — Just $199.95 (GST Inclusive) Today!
GET STARTED NOW
Earn up to 7.75 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details

Join other hard-working professionals who are already putting this important knowledge into practice:

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"Janine was so knowledgeable, gave so many examples and techniques and varied it by setting—at home, in school, in an office vs a classroom This was a great presentation!"
—Donna Z., Social Worker
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"What an energising presenter. Well done."
—Ellen K., Psychologist
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"These skills will be helpful in my school psychology practice!"
—Gloria P., School Psychologist
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"[Janine] was passionate about the material and that helped me learn."
—Jeff Y., Counselor
Certificate Course Outline
This training helps you find new ways to help your kids cope with life's biggest challenges. In two easy-to-follow modules you'll gain more than 60 coping skills for kids, tweens and teens to manage anxiety, ADHD, anger, plus chronic and acute life stressors.
Anxiety, ADHD, and Anger:
60 Activity-Based Coping Skills to Effectively Manage “Big Feelings”
Coping Skills Overview
  • The autonomic nervous system & coping skills
  • 4 types of coping skills: calming, physical, distraction and processing
  • Coping skills checklist to identify current skills and strengths
  • Preventative interventions

Skills and Strategies: Interactive Exercises Deep Breathing – Beyond “Taking a Deep Breath”
  • Props – pinwheels, bubbles, stuffed animals, Hoberman sphere
  • Words – to encourage deep breaths, “smell the soup, cool down the soup”, etc.
  • Shapes – star breathing, lazy 8 breathing, square breathing, triangle breathing
  • Your Body – your hand, whole body movement

Coping Skills for Anxiety/Stress
  • Mindfulness Practice – one mindful minute, spiderman mindfulness, audio and visual mindfulness scripts, Grounding Techniques – 54321 grounding, alphabet grounding
  • Identifying and taming anxiety – take-home worksheets to help identify anxiety, including a thermometer for anxiety, “sources of stress”
Coping Skills for ADHD
  • Plan movement and sensory breaks
  • The importance of play, hobbies, and having fun: calming jars, fidgets, sand trays, zen gardens
  • Coping skills for stress
  • Manage stressful times – the importance of play, hobbies, and having fun
  • Sensory Ideas – calming jars, fidgets, sand trays, zen gardens

Coping Skills for Anger/Frustration
  • Small physical movement activities to manage frustration – squeezing play dough, scribble drawing, bubble wrap, ripping paper
  • Big physical movement activities to manage anger – jumping jacks, running, wall pushups, obstacle courses, yoga
  • Processing anger – comic strip processing, what I can control vs. what I can’t control worksheet

Practical Implementation Ideas for the Classroom or Office
  • Make a coping skills toolkit for your room – fidgets, coping skills cue cards and other visuals to help, including distraction coping skills like word searches, hidden pictures, etc.
  • Creating a calm down spot/calm down room – identify a good spot, create an area that is peaceful and relaxing, include the coping skills toolkit
  • Practice your own coping skills – mindfulness and self-care worksheet
Coping Skills for Kids and Tweens
Anxiety, Stress, and Anger in Uncertain Times
  • Explore how the pandemic has impacted the social and emotional lives of our children
  • Why Social Emotional Learning is important now more than ever
  • How our needs and windows of tolerance have changed

Coping Skills for Anxiety
  • Deep Breathing Ideas
  • Mindfulness Strategies
  • Relaxation/Calming Activities for Kids 
Coping Skills for Stress
  • Scheduling to reduce stress
  • The importance of play and downtime
  • Using your senses to manage stress

Coping Skills for Anger/Frustration
  • Understand that anger is often just the tip of the iceberg - a lot of feelings hide beneath 
  • Safe ways to express anger with movement
  • Setting up individual calm down kits for kids
Click here for course objectives and outline
Self-Regulation and Coping Skills for Kids
Activity-Based Techniques to Manage Anxiety, ADHD, Anger, & More

$329.15 Value — Just $199.95 (GST Inclusive) Today!
GET STARTED NOW
Earn up to 7.75 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details
BONUS! TWO Downloadable Workbooks, $49 value!
Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger [PDF Download] by Janine Halloran, LMHC — A $24.95 value
140 pages featuring over 75 innovative, fun and engaging activities that you can use in schools, clinics, and at home... Loved by counselors, educators and parents alike!!

    "This is a wonderful book, very detailed and helpful!"
    — Alicia, Amazon Customer, ★★★★★

    "Any therapist would benefit from having a copy of this."
    — Joseph C, Amazon Customer, ★★★★★

    "I will be recommending this book to all the families I see."
    — Natasha, Amazon Customer, ★★★★★
Coping Skills for Kids
Social Skills for Kids: Over 75 Fun Games & Activities for Building Better Relationships, Problem Solving & Improving Communication [PDF Download] by Janine Halloran, LMHC — A $24.95 value!
Nearly 200 pages highlighting the best play experiences for kids to learn and practice social skills in real places and situations. Includes reproducible, step-by-step plans for play including alternatives for each activity and debriefing questions that reinforce learning!
Social Skills for Kids
Meet Your Course Instructor
Janine Halloran

Janine Halloran, LMHC, has over 17 years of experience working with children, teens and their families. She is the founder and CEO of Coping Skills for Kids, where she creates and curates tools & resources to help adults teach kids healthy ways to deal with stress, anxiety and anger.

She is the author of the Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger (PESI, 2018) and Social Skills for Kids: Over 75 Fun Games & Activities for Building Better Relationships, Problem Solving & Improving Communication (PESI, 2018).

She is an NBC Parent Toolkit Expert and has written articles featured on their blog. In addition, she has written for several other publications, including Hey Sigmund, Confident Families Confident Kids and Bay State Parent Magazine. She’s worked in a variety of settings, including schools, residential programmes and outpatient mental health facilities. She is in private practice and offers consultation.

Click here for information about Janine Halloran
Frequently Asked Questions

This course is for diverse professionals who work with kids, teens and families — this can include therapists, guidance counselors, psychologists and school psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, teachers, speech and language pathologists, other rehab professionals, and more! If you're looking for quick keys to make the most out of the time you have with your young clients, while helping you to stay calm, this course gives you exactly what you need. With more than 300 pages of examples, exercises, and activities, this incredible content will serve you for years to come.

Immediately when you register you'll have unlimited access to all on-demand video training content, the free bonus e-books with printable PDF resources for kids, and more!

A certificate is a document issued upon the completion of a training programme. It signifies that you have trained on specific skills, have trained with a particular individual, or have acquired knowledge in a particular subject.

Certification on the other hand often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include many of these elements — making this a "certificate" programme.

So while there are a lot of "certifications" out there — including some that are not endorsed by an actual certifying body or even taught by a licensed trainer — you need to be the judge of what adds value to your work and your ability to help your clients. This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively with an expert in the area of self-regulation and coping skills for kids with anxiety, ADHD, anger and other common emotional challenges… and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients and peers.
Self-Regulation and Coping Skills for Kids
Activity-Based Techniques to Manage Anxiety, ADHD, Anger, & More

$329.15 Value — Just $199.95 (GST Inclusive) Today!
GET STARTED NOW
Earn up to 7.75 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details
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