Certification Course in Tech Addiction, Digital Health, and Distracted and Disorganized Kids in a Digital Generation – Aubrey Schmalle & Nicholas Kardaras

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Average screen time per child has risen 2.5 hours per day in the last decade —?while the rates of ADHD, depression, suicidality, and anxiety also continue to rise.

Children have been cooped up indoors with screens for far too long.

Buzzing, pinging and gasping for attention… tablets, phones, and video games are interfering with the development and emotional well-being of today’s youth.

And young people are throwing fits when their parents take away their screens.

We need more professionals prepared to guide this digital generation.

Be the expert to guide these struggling families.

Register today for instant access to our online course: Certification Course in Tech Addiction, Digital Health, and Distracted and Disorganized Kids in a Digital Generation and become a Certified Digital Health and Wellness Level 1 Professional (CDHWP) within days!

Join Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D., LCSW-R and Aubrey Schmalle, OTR/L, SIPT, in this online course that will present you with the most effective tools, strategies and techniques you need to help children, adolescents, young adults and families hijacked by technology addiction and overuse…

In this completely self-paced course, we’ll show you how to help children with ADHD, autism, mental health disorders, and related issues find more opportunities for multi-sensory integration — increasing attention and enhancing brain development!

Best of all, completion of this training meets the educational requirements should you choose to apply to become a Certified Digital Health and Wellness Level 1 Professional (CDHWP) through the National Institute for Digital Health and Wellness (NIDHW).

To learn more about how you can apply for CDHWP certification and distinguish yourself from other professionals, visit www.nidhw.org.

Finish feeling prepared and confident in your ability to lead young people hijacked by tech overuse on the path to a better life!

Module 1: Distracted and Disorganized Kids in a Digital Generation: Techniques to Influence Neuroplasticity, Manage Screen Time & Implement Sensory Smart Movement with Aubrey?Schmalle?OTR/L, SIPT?

4 D’s of a Digital Generation: Distraction, Disorganization, Dysregulation, and Digital Dementia

• The speed of digital information verses the speed of neurodevelopment
• Growing impact of technology on learning and behavior
• Specific challenges for children with learning, processing, and attention deficits

Rebalance the Brain-Body Connection?

• Role of the senses in self-regulation, perception, and adaptive response patterns
• Sensory Imbalances: Overusing vision in a screen-based world
• Impact of weak links in sensory triads on learning and behavior
• Influence physiology to reduce disorganization and dysregulation
• Rebalance through controlled activation of multiple senses

A Powerful New Framework: Body Activated Learning™

• 3 Phase Approach: Optimize, activate, and regroup
• Optimize connection to the body through energizing or calming movement
• Activate the brain-body connection using sensory triads and vision exercises
• Regroup from screen-based and sedentary learning tasks triggering visual and body fatigue
• Experiential learning

Activate and Digitally Interactive Treatment Strategies

• Determine a child’s digital and sensory-learning profile
• Building Sensational self-awareness to engage and empower learners
• Proactive activities to support regulation and cognition
• Embedding regrouping opportunities to recover from dysregulation and overload
• Technology as a tool to support the brain-body connection
• Case studies, videos, and interactive learning

Influencing Neuroplasticity: Techniques to Balance Technology and Sensory Smart Movement

• Vision, auditory, vestibular, and more considerations for:
  • ADHD
  • Autism
  • Dyslexia and dysgraphia
  • Non-identified but digitally impacted children

Attacking Digital Dementia and Disorganization from the Inside Out

• Educate parents and schools
• Play and learning vs “Done for You” Technology
• Visualization vs videos and Playstation
• Creation vs consumption: Interactive learning in a digital age
• Remediation vs accommodation

Contagious Mindsets: Collaborate to Empower a Digital Generation

Module 2: Tech Addiction & Digital Health in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults: Level 1 Certification for Clinicians & Educators with Nicholas Kardaras?Ph.D., LCSW-R

The Origins of Screen Culture?

• The origins of “Indoor Children”
• Difference between passive TV viewing and immersive/interactive modern screen experiences

Neurological Impacts of Technology Addiction/Overuse?

• The role of dopamine in addiction
• The dopaminergic effects of screens on the brain
• A view of screens as “digital drugs”
• Brain imaging research and the effects on the frontal cortex
• Hormonal impacts of tech overuse

Clinical Research: Technology Addiction/Overuse Impact On:?

• Depression?and social media
• ADHD?and screen-time
• Anxiety?and screen-time
• Thought disorders?and video games as well as “sensory overload”
• Increased aggression?and video games
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

Assessments and Observational Tools

• Assessment tools
• The difference between “overuse” and “addiction”
• A comparison with substance addiction assessment

Technology Addiction/Overuse Intervention?

• Not all tech addiction is the same
• Specific digital usage problem, stressors, triggers
• Underlying and co-morbid issues
• Residential vs. outpatient treatment: Pros and cons
• How to implement a “Digital Detox”
• Importance of nature, meditation and exercise

Technology in the Classroom: Pedagogical Impacts of Screen Time?

• Research on educational outcomes of classroom technology
• Phones in the classroom and standardized test scores
• Screens in the classroom and impact on reading and comprehension
• Comparisons of “Low Tech” schools and one-to-one screen schools
• Ed Tech: a $60 billion annual industry
• The Los Angeles “iPad Fiasco” and the Amplify initiative by Rupert Murdoch

Working with Families and the Family Dynamic?

• Validate that the issues harming families are indeed real
• Address dysfunction contributing to the problem
• Family psychoeducation
• ”Family Intervention Plan”: The solution needs to be a collective one

“Mindful Digital Usage”: How to Reintegrate Back into Healthy Tech Usage?

• Individualized digital “re-entry” plan: Hands-on activity
• Help the child to identify healthier “Digital Vegetables” vs. “Digital Candy”
• Measure progress and what to do if there is a setback

Case Study Review

• Learn interventions and strategies to handle:
  • Mood-dysregulated thirteen-year-old male, DX Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)
  • Violent adolescent male, DX ADHD and conduct disorder, video gamer, school refusal, assaults parents
  • Suicidal adolescent female, DX depression, disordered eating and self-injurious behavior, social media platforms 8-10 hours a day
  • Twenty-five-year-old graduate student, very politically-interested, stays up all night “hyper-link” surfing, hears voices, paranoid
  • Social-media obsessed mom, neglects young children, marriage is suffering, children acting out

When you register today, receive these FREE Bonuses:

Bonus 1: Telehealth for Children and Families: Strategies to Balance Digital Learning and Sensory Smart Movement 

Telehealth challenges therapists to adapt their intervention approaches and seek out new ways to promote skill development while collaborating with parents in their home environment.

This program provides a unique solution to meeting the needs of a digital generation of learners. Learn how to balance technology with sensory smart movement to optimize treatment outcomes using a 3 Phase Approach:

• Self-Regulation for focus
• Activate the senses for learning
• Regroup from screen-based learning demands

Bonus 2: Digital Detox Card Deck 

Buzzing, pinging and grasping for our attention, our phones and screens can cause significant distress, as we lose touch with reality and the importance of self-care and emotional well-being.

Take advantage of the 56 practices inside to detox from your devices, feel rejuvenated, find healthier coping skills, and embrace the present moment.

• Detox: Practices to help you dump your devices, simplify and soar!
• De-stress: Learn to relax instead of letting social media and FOMO (fear of missing out) stress you out.
• Distract: Instead of turning to your devices for comfort, practice new coping skills.
• Discover: An amazing, meaningful world unfolds when you take your eyes off the screen!