A New Look at Behavior: Connecting, Calming, and Coaching
This graduate course is designed for occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, school psychologists, social workers, and teachers and will guide professionals to examine the underlying causes for behaviors from developmental, social-emotional, cognitive, and sensorial perspectives.
This course will provide educators and related service providers with methodologies for identifying the developmentally appropriate approach and for effective intervention planning for problematic and challenging behaviors in the school setting.
Educators will develop a means for fostering safe and trusting therapeutic relationships with their most challenging students as well as effective de-escalation strategies.
Special considerations for working with children with Autism, as well as those exposed to toxic stress and trauma, will also be covered in this comprehensive course.
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(Available for 3 credits)
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Course Number: ED 501-5409
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**Textbook sold separately and available here
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Feedback On This Course:
"Beyond Behaviors has been the most thought-provoking course I have taken so far with Therapy Advance.
It validated my feelings on the current methods of addressing behaviors and provided a wealth or resources for examining underlying causes and developing an intervention plan."
-Anonymous
"​Therapy Advance Courses made it easy to learn at my own pace while earning credits toward advancement on the salary guide.
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I took the Beyond Behavior class and was impressed with everything about it. The required reading offered real-life strategies that were easily infused into my daily practice as a school psychologist. The structure and content of the coursework were excellent, and the assignments were thought-provoking. I received helpful feedback from the founders on every assignment. Highly recommend!"
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-Jill, School Psychologist
"This is an excellent course, and I highly recommend it!
The foundational information regarding the latest neuroscience should be mandatory material for all professionals working with students who have behavioral challenges. I found the strategies to be incredibly helpful and practical, and I was able to use the information immediately at work each day. This course also offers the opportunity for self-reflection so that we can bring our best selves when helping our students. Definitely a worthwhile course!"
-A.S., SLP
"This course was organized, relevant, and reasonably priced!​
So refreshing to find a course for graduate credits that is geared towards related service providers instead of trying to make courses designed for teachers apply to my position as an OT. "
-Jennifer, OT
"This course was by far one of the best courses I have taken.
Extremely thought-provoking and easy to navigate at the same time. The layout of the course lessons and readings was well planned out, which helped guide me. Being a classroom teacher, I am always looking for more information and strategies to enhance my students' learning. This course did exactly that for me and more! It was BEYOND what I expected."
-Mary, Teacher
"Therapy Advance offers courses for professionals that are realistic and straightforward.
The content I learned in this course not only broadened my perspective about behavioral intervention as a teacher, it changed me as a person!"
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-Kerin