Emotional Freedom Techniques: Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety..

Training Description:

The Emotional Freedom Techniques aka as Tapping are an evidenced-based, mind-body treatment that treats the thought, the emotion and the associated physical discomfort. By using EFT to quiet these 3 aspects, negative behavior also diminishes. These untreated mental health aspects create a lot of havoc for children and their families.

Neuroscience is pointing to the aroused Autonomic nervous system and the effects of chronic fight, flight and freeze has on the body’s immune , digestive, elimination, heart and circulatory systems – all that may contribute to illness. These protective practices were meant to be short term reactions, but anxiety and worry keep them activated. Children in the welfare system are more at risk. EFT quiets these systems and allows the body a chance to heal.

Working with children require special skills. Help children release use EFT on the small “t” traumas of childhood can affect lifetime changes. These often burgeon into lifetime phobias or fears that interfere with life. A teased, laughed at child doing a classroom speech may become the adult unable to advance at work due to this ingrained fear of public speaking. Socially anxious teens may be left out, not date, and not work outside the home with these limitations following them into life.

Also learn special, but gentle EFT ways to work with big “T” traumatized children, those frequently found in the child welfare system, including an EFT technique called the Tearless Trauma Technique and also using EFT to quiet the body first.

Objectives:

1. Identify 3 EFT applications to calm the agitation , excitement and bodily overwhelm from anxious and worried behavior.

2. Name 2 ways to teach children and their families how to use EFT as a valuable stress management tool,

3. Articulate specific strategies and language considerations for treating the anxiety spectrum disorders of stress, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, Compulsive behavior and unwanted habits and traumatic incidents.

Schedule:

Introduction of Emotional Freedom Techniques and Tapping - 20 minutes

Explanation and special considerations when working with ,Stress, generalized anxiety disorder, panic, social anxiety, Compulsive behaviors and unwanted habits - 20 minutes

Special consideration working with small “t” and big “T” Trauma - 20 minutesGroup Demo and practice of EFT - 20 minutes

Break -10 minutes

Adjustments for children age and development, language, projective toys, Simon says application - 20 minutes

Live demo from the audience - 20 minutes

Supervised Practicum – groups of 3 - 30 minutes

Debrief Practicum and Q and A -10 minutes

Shortcuts for simple stress management -10 minutes.

Trainer Bio

Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP

Robin Bilazarian is a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in New Jersey, License # 44SC01393700. She has a MSW (Masters of Social Work) from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have been practicing these particular methods for 25 years and training others in these methods for 15 years.

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