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Beyond Consequences for Children with

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Albert Einstein

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it

can only be achieved by

understanding.”

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• Stress: The emotional and physiological reaction to a threat, whether real or imagined, resulting in a series of adaptations by our bodies

• Acute stress protects; Chronic stress destroys

Let’s Talk Stress

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• Paradigm is the pattern in which we think, live, and act accordingly.

• Our understanding of stress is critical to our application. To fail to understand is to fail to apply, hence, change our paradigm.

• “We only view something as abnormal when it falls outside of our perceptual understanding.”

Changing Paradigms:

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Changing Paradigms:Looking through Different Lenses

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Changing Paradigms:Looking through Different Lenses

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STRESS

FEAR

Triggering Sensory Event

EMOTIONS

BEHAVIOR

LOVE

Behavior arises from Stress; In between Stress and Behavior

is a primary Emotion: Love or Fear

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Fear and Stress create blocked

feelings that can inhibit growth,

learning, and the building of a trusting relationship between the parent and the

child.

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The ability to experience and maintain stress within ones window of tolerance. Generally referred to as being calm, focused, or relaxed. This term is utilized by literally every scientific discipline.

The experience of stress outside of ones window of tolerance. Generally referred to as being stressed out, or in a state of distress. It is believed that affect dysregulation is a fundamental mechanism involved in all psychiatric disorders (Taylor et al, 1997.)

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The Space to Choose

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- Mother Teresa

“The greatest science inthe world; in heaven and

on earth, is love.”

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