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How Caregivers Can Stay Regulated While Co-Regulating Their Kids During Very Dysregulating Times Stacy G. York Nation, LCSW in partnership with The Adoption Exchange

Brain Development Cognitive-plus Affect/Relational Regulatory SS All rights reserved © 2006 -2015 Bruce D.

Sequence of Engagement Reason Relate Regulate All rights reserved © 2007 -2014 Bruce D.

Regulation – What is it? – Why is it important? – Co-regulation – Top Down regulation vs. Bottom Up Regulation

1. Movement and Play – People who play together, regulate together. – Movement is regulating

2. Empathy – What is it? – How do we do it? – Why is it important?

3. “I” Statements – When you _______, I feel ______, so could you please ____________?

4. H. O. P. E. – Hold On Past The Emotion – Regulated adults regulate kids. Dysregulated adults escalate kids

5. Stop Asking WHY – WHY is for adults. STOP asking it. – Kids do not have fully developed cortex. – Instead… “Tell me more about that. ” or “Tell me what happened. Then, what happened. ”

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