Resources

Meltdowns: 5 Essential Steps

Join ICP Co-Founder, Tammy Schamuhn, in this free webinar that provides parenting tools to promote emotion regulation in children.

This presentation will outline five distinct steps that lead to connection, and will provide you a toolkit of simple strategies and techniques to help you turn chaotic interactions into bonding experiences.

Fostering Resilience in Children & Teens

Resilient kids are confident problem solvers, critical thinkers, independent, motivated, have high self-esteem, and are courageous in navigating life's challenges.

This webinar begins to equip you with the tools and understanding you need to help your child, or the children in your life, begin to live a more resilient life.

Understanding Childhood Trauma

Trauma has many faces: abuse, neglect, high conflict divorce, parental substance abuse, accidents, natural disasters, illness, death of a loved one . . .

In this free 1 hour webinar Tammy Schamuhn, ICP Co-Founder and Registered Child Psychologist, will help you understand how trauma impacts children, and walk you through some key strategies to help a child or teen cope with trauma.

Childhood Anxiety: 5 Strategies to Help Children & Teens Cope

During this free webinar, ICP Co-Founder and Registered Psychologist Tammy Schamuhn will explore anxiety in children and teens.

Parents and caregivers will learn about the neuroscience of anxiety, teach you how to better communicate with your child, and to implement a variety of emotion regulation strategies to calm a child or teen who is struggling.

Parenting with the Brain in Mind

Join our on-demand free webinar designed to help guide parents and caregivers in the fostering of neurological growth in children.

Join this webinar to: Understand the stages of brain development, recognize what impedes neurological growth in children, and identify concrete strategies that nurture neurological growth in children.

Family Media Plan

When media is used intentionally and in developmentally appropriate ways, media can enhance daily life. When used without clear intention it can displace many important activities and interfere with a child's development. By creating a media plan, you can be aware of when you were using media to achieve your purpose. The printable will help you create solid goals and rules that are aligned with your families values.

Time-In’s: Free Printable

Time-In's are a simple alternative to a time-out. A time-out is where a child is put in isolation as a form of punishment. A time-in is an opportunity for co-regulation, skill building, a developmentally appropriate way to remove a child from a situation they can't handle, and set an appropriate limit.

Download this easy step-by-step guide on implementing time-in's with your child.

7 Ways to Cultivate Grit in Children

In the past few years, "grit" has become a buzzword in child development and education circles. In psychology, grit is based on an individual's passion, motivation, and determination to achieve a certain goal.

“7 Ways to Cultivate Grit in Children” , written by Jill Ceder, explores 7 instrumental tools to help your child develop grit and perseverance.

Strategies: Helping a Child After a Traumatic Event

Trauma can significantly impact a child, and those caring for them are often left with questions about how to best help.

This wonderful resource will share evidence- based strategies to help a child emotionally regulate and ground after a traumatic event. It also includes a resource from the Child Trauma Academy on “Helping Traumatized Children: A Brief Overview for Caregivers.”

Connection Rituals to Battle Anxiety

“Connection Rituals to Battle Anxiety” provides parents, caregivers, and professionals with concrete tools and rituals to help children who struggle with anxiety.

Anxiety is often (but not always) a symptom of disconnection - even if this isn’t the source of the anxiety, the connection with a caregiver most often relieves the anxiety. This has to do with our innate drive to ‘be in attachment’ with our caregivers.

Cultivating Resiliency in Children

“Cultivating Resiliency in Children” provides parents, caregivers and professionals with concrete tools and strategies to raise resilient children.

Resilient children are confident problem solvers, critical thinkers, independent, motivated, have a high self-esteem, and are courageous in navigating life’s challenges.

Words to Calm a Child

“Words to Calm a Child” provides key phrases parents and caregivers can utilize to promote emotion regulation and connection with a child struggling with anxiety, anger, or sadness. We also provide a quick formula to effectively set limits with children, and recommend some phrases to repair the relationship if you lose your cool in the heat of the moment.