Bullying SOS: Support and Strategies for Parents
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“Bullying SOS: Support and strategies for parents” a free webinar Nov 26 at 9pm EST with mental health and parenting author Ann Douglas. Presented by Morneau Shepell's Children's Support Solutions
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- 1. Bullying SOS: Support and Strategies for Parents Child_Boy-sitting-on-chair-1
- 2. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 Tonight’s learning objectives 2 We want you to be able to: • understand that a skills deficit (self-regulation and/or friendship skills) can lead a child to engage in bullying behaviours and/or leave that child more vulnerable to bullying. • leave with practical strategies for helping a child who is struggling, whether that child is their own child or another child they care about and/or work with.
- 3. Confidential – Not for Distribution GoToWebinar Housekeeping Open and close your control panel Join audio: • Choose Mic & Speakers to use VoIP • Choose Telephone and dial using the information provided Submit questions and comments via the Questions panel by typing them in. Note: Today’s presentation is being recorded and will be provided within 48 hours. Your Participation
- 4. Confidential – Not for Distribution Have a question? • Please continue to submit your text questions and comments using the Questions panel • For more information, please sbingham@morneaushepell.com • Note: Today’s presentation is being recorded and will be provided within 48 hours. Your Participation
- 5. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 A special offer from Morneau Shepell’s Children’s Support Solutions Save $40! Mention the promo code “BullyingWebinar” when you book an appointment with Children’s Support Solutions between now and December 31, 2015 and you’ll save $40 off the administration fee. After the webinar, visit our website www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com or call: 1.866.653.2397
- 6. Confidential – Not for Distribution Assessments and treatment • Psychology • Speech-language pathology • Behaviour therapy • Occupational therapy • Physiotherapy • Special education Our Children’s Support Solutions helps children reach their potential through an inter-professional and family centred approach. Morneau Shepell helps over ½ a million people each year through therapy, education and coaching. Locations Ontario • Toronto • Aurora • Thornhill • Mississauga Online Quebec • Pointe-Claire • Westmount • Montreal East • Terrebonne • Quebec • Sherbrooke British Columbia • Vancouver • Burnaby 6
- 7. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 Meet Ann Douglas Ann Douglas is the author of numerous books about parenting including, most recently, Parenting Through the Storm. 7 Her website is www.anndouglas.net and you can connect with her on Twitter @anndouglas.
- 8. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Recognize that friendship skills don’t come easily to or naturally for every child. Friendships may be particularly difficult for children who are struggling with mental health, neurodevelopmental, and/or behavioural challenge. Your child may need a little extra help learning how to regulate his emotions and his attention and some extra practice understanding how friendships work. 8
- 9. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Consider what is realistic for your child right now Respect your child’s temperament and consider where he is at developmentally as you look for ways to encourage your child to work on his friendship skills. Examples: Can you think of an extra-curricular activity that he would enjoy and that would provide him with opportunities to work on his friendship skills? Is he ready to have a friend join him on a family outing? 9
- 10. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Look for allies beyond the family Get to know the parents of other children in your friend’s class. Join forces with your child’s teacher. Maybe she can think of ways your child could work on his friendship skills at school. 10
- 11. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Help your child to understand how her behaviour affects other people—and vice versa. Help her to identify any behaviours that could be contributing to difficulties in her relationships: not looking people in the eye when she is speaking to them, speaking too quietly or too loudly, interrupting other people repeatedly. 11
- 12. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Give her the opportunity to work on underlying skills (emotional regulation, for example) that will lead to improvements on the friendship front. Help her to identify the strategies that work best for her in regulating her emotions—and help her to understand how regulating her emotions will help her to function better in relationships. 12
- 13. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Help your child to understand how friendships work Dissect social encounters—both situations your child has been directly involved in and situations he has observed (including situations in books he has read or movies he has watched). Role-play different outcomes to the same situation. What could you do or say differently? How might that affect the way things turn out? Encourage your child to see the same situation from different perspectives. (Consider how different the view is if you sit on different sides of the same room.) 13
- 14. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 FRIENDSHIP SKILLS Help your child to understand that conflict in relationships is normal and relationships can be repaired. Talk about the reasons why conflict occurs (miscommunication, emotional outbursts, having different perspectives on the same situation) Talk about ways to go about repairing a relationship if a conflict has occurred. 14
- 15. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 BULLYING One in three Approximately one in three Canadian children is bullied on a regular basis, putting them at risk of a variety of mental and physical health problems throughout childhood and beyond. 15
- 16. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 BULLYING Some children face an increased risk of being bullied. Children who show signs of depression, anxiety, or excessive aggression at the time they enter first grade are at risk of being chronically victimized by their classmates two years later. 16
- 17. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 BULLYING What parents and teachers can do to help Help children to work on any underlying areas of difficulty, so they won’t be as vulnerable to being bullied. Children who are rejected by their peers early on miss out on the opportunity to socialize with other children, causing them to fall behind their peers when it comes to understanding how relationships work. Help your child to be emotionally literate. Talk about how emotions work and how we can ensure that they work for, not against, us. 17
- 18. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 BULLYING What parents and teachers can do to help Encourage pro-social behaviours amongst all children. Teach your child to ask for help in a way that strengthens relationships, minimizes conflict, and encourages the other person to want to help. Take your child’s concerns seriously and help her to come up with a plan for dealing with bullying. Help your child to develop strong relationships with you, his teacher, and a peer. 18
- 19. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 BULLYING Parenting strategies to support a child who is being bullied Ask yourself, “What would make things better for my child right now?” Validate your child’s emotions. Be a source of calm in your child’s life. Encourage your child to treat himself with self-compassion. 19
- 20. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 Additional Resources Parenting Through the Storm (book and website): www.anndouglas.net PrevNet: http://www.prevnet.ca Red Cross Canada: http://www.redcross.ca/how- we-help/violence--bullying- and-abuse-prevention/parents 20
- 21. Confidential – Not for Distribution www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com 1.866.653.2397 A special offer from Morneau Shepell’s Children’s Support Solutions Save $40! Mention the promo code “BullyingWebinar” when you book an appointment with Children’s Support Solutions between now and December 31, 2015 and save $40 off the administration fee. After the webinar, visit our website www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com or call: 1.866.653.2397 QUESTIONS? Please #AskCSS!
- 22. Confidential – Not for Distribution Thank you! 22
Editor's Notes
- Good evening everyone, and welcome to today's webinar, Bullying SOS: Support and Strategies for Parents. My name is <INSERT YOUR NAME> and I’m happy to be the moderator for this evening’s webinar.
- Tonight’s discussion is an important one and we want to share tips with you and towards the end of the webinar we want to be able to answer your questions.
- Before we get started, I’d like to go over a few items so you know how to participate in today’s event. We've taken a screen shot of an example of the Attendee interface. You should see something that looks like this on your own computer desktop in the upper-right corner. You’re listening in using your computer's speaker system by default. If you would prefer to join over the phone, just select “Telephone” in the Audio pane and the dial-in information will be displayed.
- You will have the opportunity to submit text questions to today’s presenter by typing your questions into the Questions pane of the control panel. You may send in your questions at any time during the presentation; we will collect these and address them during the Q&A session at the end of today’s presentation.
- Before we get started we wanted to share with you a bit about what Morneau Shepell does…Morneau Shepell is the world’s largest provider of health, behaviour and productivity solutions, helping over ½ a million people each year through therapy, education and coaching. Children’s Support Solutions works with families, schools and childcare centres to identify children’s needs and help them reach their potential. We work with infants to young adults of all abilities and believe that every child is unique and understanding that uniqueness is what we do best. We provide a wide range of services including screening and assessments, one to one and group interventions, medical legal rehabilitation and solutions for schools and daycares. We also have a special offer from Morneau Shepell’s Children’s Support Solutions. Mention the promo code “BullyingWebinar” when you book an appointment with Children’s Support Solutions between now and December 31, 2015 and you’ll save $40 off the administration fee. After the webinar, just visit our website www.ChildrenSupportSolutions.com or call: 1.866.653.2397
- Children’s Support Solutions is family-centred and inter-professional; meaning that we always start with the questions, “What will work for this child?” and “What is right for the family?” We think about the mix of services that will help the child. In the Morneau Shepell model, professionals are not just under one roof; they plan together, train together and work together on a client file. It is an integrated approach to helping the family. Our therapists and educators are trained and certified in a wide range of disciplines, including clinical psychology, speech-language pathology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, behaviour therapy, music therapy, special education, psychoeducation, guidance counselling and tutoring.
- Thank you Ann Douglas. We’re now going to begin answering the questions submitted during today’s presentation. As a reminder, you can still submit questions through the Questions pane in your attendee control panel. <PRESENTER’S NAME>, our first question is from <ATTENDEE’S NAME>, and his/her question is…..
- Thank you <INSERT NAME OF LAST PRESENTER> and thank you everyone for attending today’s webinar, <INSERT WEBINAR TITLE HERE>. If you have any other questions, please contact <INSERT DESIRED CONTACT INFORMATION HERE>. Once you leave today’s webinar, you will receive a survey on the presentation, and we would appreciate if you would complete that and provide your feedback. You will also receive a follow-up email within 24-48 hours with a link to view a recording of today’s webinar. On behalf of <INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE> and our presenters, thank you for joining us today, and have a great rest of your day!