Live Webinar
March 14, 2024 4pm IST, 12pmEST, 9am PST
MAGPIES for Emotion Regulation
Some approaches to emotion regulation at childhood can unintentionally promote experiential avoidance where children learn to ignore their feelings, that their feelings aren’t valid, and/or that their feelings don’t matter.
Yet, our bodies give us essential information about the things we want and care about. Being able to attend to that information and use it to guide our behavior effectively is important; moving from following our emotions blindly toward listening to our emotions wisely. Teaching children to pause and consider what their body is trying to tell them when big, all-encompassing emotions show up can broaden pathways to effective responding, shifting a child’s focus towards the things they could do to meet their needs, whilst also being aware of what certain environments might be simultaneously expecting of them.
This workshop introduces attendees to MAGPIES for emotion regulation, a developmentally appropriate, neuroaffirmative, contextual behavioral approach to following emotions wisely. Through didactic presentations, attendees will conceptualize emotion regulation from a MAGPIES perspective (emphasizing the importance of meeting children’s needs). Through experiential exercises, attendees will be invited to practice exercises relevant to emotion regulation, further planning for challenges that may arise in the context of group-based interventions targeting emotion regulation. Finally, attendees will receive a suite of easy-to-implement MAGPIES protocols that teachers/clinicians/other professionals can use to explore emotion regulation in naturalistic group-based settings. While it is assumed that many of the children who need this type of support are part of clinical populations of children experiencing mental health distress, it is important to note that many children without any clinical diagnoses will also benefit from learning these skills. The training series is appropriate for all levels of practitioners.
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MAGPIES for Emotional Regulation
Two hour recording of the live session outlining how to teach the MAGPIES for ER module with evidence base and current outcomes findings.
Two hour recording of the live session outlining how to teach the MAGPIES for ER module with evidence base and current outcomes findings.
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What you’ll learn
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Outline the MAGPIES approach to emotion regulation in the context of children experiencing strong emotions.
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Plan for challenges that may arise when targeting emotion regulation in group settings where children may have competing different needs/different levels of needs.
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Use MAGPIES protocols to support children with emotion regulation.
Meet your instructors
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Meet your instructors ✳
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B.Sc. (Hons.) Psych., Ph.D., Prof. Cert. CBT, Cert. Adv. ACT & MBI, C. Psychol. Ps.S.I.
Dr Sarah Cassidy is an Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychologist and a peer-reviewed ACT Trainer. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychological Society Of Ireland (PSI) as well as a serving Council Member of the PSI. She is also in the Division of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychologists with the American Psychological Association.
She is the Founder and Director of Smithsfield Clinic, a private Community Mental Health Service in Athboy, County Meath where she has offered neuro-affirmative psycho-educational, neurodevelopmental, and emotional/behavioural assessments and treatment for all ages of children, adolescents, and young adults and their families for over 2 decades now.
She is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the New England Centre for OCD & Anxiety, Ireland Branch (with Dr Lisa Coyne) which is a highly specialised assessment and treatment centre for those experiencing anxiety ranging from everyday anxiety to very severe and treatment-resistant anxiety and OCD. This service employs ACT (+ERP) and RFT principles in all interventions. Dr Cassidy is also the Co-Founder and Chief Education Officer at RaiseYourIQ.com which is a behavioural educational technological research company that came directly out of her doctoral research at Maynooth University (with Professor Bryan Roche) which continues to conduct cutting-edge behaviour analytic research nationally and internationally to evaluate how children learn best and to maximise their learning potential using Relational Frame Theory interventions and which is now widely known as SMART (strengthening mental abilities with relational training). Dr Cassidy is the former Chairperson of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science Membership Committee and continues to serve on this and many other committees and SIGS within this organization, including being a member of the Steering Group for the Neurodiversity-Affirming Research and Practice Special Interest Group.
She has been a Lecturer in Child, Educational and Counselling Psychology at Maynooth University as well as a mentor and trainer to professional psychologists and behaviour analysts, ACT therapists and specialist teachers on multiple university programs and professional courses in Ireland and abroad for the last 15 years+. She regularly is invited to be a peer reviewer and guest editor for scientific journal articles and books. She is a clinical consultant on several professional boards and companies at senior management level including Compassionate Behavior Analysis and Reach Children Services both offering neuroaffirmative and compassionate behaviour analytic assessment and therapies.
Dr Cassidy has also designed a children’s mental health program, called MAGPIES, which is now being used in clinics all over the world to support children in learning how to build emotional regulation skills, build self and other awareness skills, increase self-esteem and to learn to cope with anxiety. She continues to conduct research nationally and internationally on this programme to improve mental health outcomes for children.
She has recently co-authored Tired of Anxiety; A Kid’s Guide to Befriending Scary Thoughts and Living your Life Anyway (which has recently been featured on several radio shows and popular podcasts) and Tired of Teen Anxiety; A Young Person’s Guide to Discovering Your Best Life and Becoming your Best Self. There are 3 more books in this series on the way. Dr Cassidy is best known for her ability to break down scientific principles into bite-sized pieces such that they can be understood by broader audiences, including children, adolescents, and those outside of the scientific community. She is passionate about building bridges, neuroaffirmative practice, and equitable access to evidence-based science.
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B.A. (Hons.) Psych., Ph.D., Cert. Adv. ACT & MBI, Prof. Dip. CBT, C. Psychol. Ps.S.I.
Dr Alison Stapleton is a Chartered Psychologist of the Psychological Society of Ireland, Postdoctoral Fellow at Smithsfield Clinic and University College Dublin, and a Lecturer in Psychology at Dublin Business School and the Institute of Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alison coordinates the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) Neurodiversity-Affirming Research and Practice Special Interest Group (SIG), served on the Steering Committee for the ACBS Relational Frame Theory SIG, and currently works at ACT Now Purposeful Living, a leading provider of ACT training in Ireland. Alison regularly delivers national and international level trainings, and has experience working in psychological services to identify, accommodate, and support a range of neurotypes. Alison has published two book chapters and 13 scientific articles, most recently contributing to The Oxford Handbook of ACT and a systematic review of adults’ experiences of being identified as autistic in adulthood (manuscript submitted for publication).