Strategies for Managing Distress Behaviours in Children
Event description
In this information session, we aim to explore effective strategies for managing distress behaviors in children. This includes:
- Define distress behaviours
- Understanding the function of behaviour
- Positive behavior management strategies
- In-the-moment and
- Out-the-moment
- Understand the role of various health professionals.
Light dinner provided from 6:30pm
Refreshments, resources, and friendly support is provided.
This is strictly a child-free event, to allow for open discussion.
Meet the presenters!
Dr. Kimberly Mercuri is a clinical psychologist with experience working across private, forensic, and not-for-profit settings. She enjoys providing individual therapy, as well as providing supervision for emerging psychologists.
After returning from a period of maternity leave, Kimberly opened DKM Psychology in July 2020 and has nurtured it to become a group practice that provides diagnostic assessment and individual intervention to children, teens, and adults.
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