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Becoming Centered
This podcast is a field guide for professionals seeking perspectives and techniques for helping others find their balanced path. It's also for people who want to learn the self-counseling pathways, navigation tools, and practices to live a centered life. Organized into several series, this podcast focuses on: (1) understanding the territory of personal psychology, (2) tools and techniques for counseling others in how to develop a centered and balanced life, and (3) tools and techniques for…
Episodes
- Becoming Centered
21. Becoming Physiologically Centered
This episode focuses on how to help child-clients become physiologically centered. Previous episodes have focused on helping children become emotionally and…
- Becoming Centered
20. Stories - The Bear Clan Origin pt. 1-3
This episode is a departure from the usual format by sharing original teaching stories. Storytelling and stories are a fundamental modality for learning. Our…
- Becoming Centered
19. Management and Delegating
This podcast episode discusses the importance of management and delegation within residential treatment programs for children and youth. It highlights the…
- Becoming Centered
18. Processing Suicidal Ideation
This podcast episode is the second part of a series that addresses how to intervene when dealing with suicidal ideation in children and youth. It emphasizes…
- Becoming Centered
17. Suicidal Ideation
This podcast episode discusses the challenging issue of dealing with suicidal ideation among child-clients in residential treatment. The podcast offers…
- Becoming Centered
16. The Aspect Compass & Meeting Kids' Needs
This podcast presents a powerful perspective for helping your child-clients become centered. It's based on understanding your kids' needs through The Aspect…
- Becoming Centered
15. Processing Feelings
This episode explores various techniques for helping children process their feelings and develop emotional regulation skills. The episode begins with a recap…
- Becoming Centered
14. Time Outs
This podcast episode discusses the use of timeouts as a common and effective technique in residential treatment programs working with children and adolescents…
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13. Setting Firm Limits
This podcast episode explores the crucial role of structure and firm, yet respectful, limit-setting in residential care for troubled children. Structures and…
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12. Structure and Structural Interventions
This podcast delves into the fundamental structures of residential treatment programs and the concept of structural interventions. While theoretically…
- Becoming Centered
11. Neurological Coregulation
This podcast discusses the importance of coregulation in residential treatment settings for children who are emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally…
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10. After Physical Restraints
This podcast episode is part four of a series addressing the use of physical restraints and interventions in response to extreme client behaviors, particularly…
- Becoming Centered
9. Trauma Protection with Physical Restraints
Physical Restraints tend to be in response to intense, often times violent, situations and will have some degree of traumatizing effect on both the staff and…
- Becoming Centered
8. Physical Restraints
Physical Restraints are, in my opinion, the best option for safely dealing with violent behaviors among children and youth in residential treatment…
- Becoming Centered
7. Physical Interventions
Physical Restraints are a complex and controversial subject that might be triggering for some people. There are scholarly articles on this subject and many…
- Becoming Centered
6. The Aspect Compass and Setting Limits
This episode uses The Aspect Compass to frame the role of a Residential Counselor as serving as The Chief function with the clients to set limits, to help…
- Becoming Centered
5. The Domain Compass and Labeling
This episode reviews The Domain Compass, which is a way to visualize four domains of psychological functioning. In the East, there's the domain of emotions…
- Becoming Centered
4. Team Building
High level team work is an absolutely essential aspect of being an effective Residential Counselor. There's a classic way to think about the formation of…
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3. Therapeutic Relationships
Therapeutic relationships help your clients become centered in four domains of psychological functioning. This can be visualized using The Domain Compass: · In…
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2. Professional Boundaries for Residential Counselors
Professional boundaries includes: 1. the schedule of when you'll have contact with the kids, 2. limits on physical touch, 3. limits on personal disclosure, and…
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1. The Role of Residential Counselor
Welcome to the first episode of Becoming Centered. This episode begins the Residential Counselor Orientation series, designed for the new Residential…