Description

This training, Managing Big Emotions, provides foster and adoptive parents with practical tools to recognize, understand, and manage intense emotional responses in children. Training focuses on fostering emotional regulation, developing coping strategies, and creating a supportive environment that helps children process and express their feelings and trauma in a healthy way. Participants will learn techniques for staying calm during emotional outbursts and strategies for helping children navigate their big emotions, promoting resilience and stability in the family unit. 

As a result of this training participants will . . . 

• Understand the brain has different regions which control different functions, but work together for a successful whole. 

• Describe the hand model of the brain and how it relates to emotional regulation. 

• Apply the regulate, relate, reason concept to a child’s behavior. 

• Create a list of calming strategies to utilize for big emotions. 

 

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents

Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months

If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu