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Howerd Glasser dives into the Nurtured Heart Approach | Theramoves
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Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach

$199.00

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Description

Course Details

Instructor
Howard Glasser
Founder of Nurtured Heart Approach®.
International lecturer and author

Date
Wednesday
April 29, 2026
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

Format
Live Webinar

6 CONTACT HOURS
0.6 AOTA CEUs
7.5 NBCOT PDUs
0.6 ASHA CEUs
0.6 CEUs for SLP NY State
6.0 CTLE credit/contact hours
7.2 NY PT contact hours (.72 CEUs)
0.6 CEUs for NY social workers

We report to CE Broker Tracking #50-31070 (select states) #: 20-1371316

Cost
$179 Register before April 1
$199 After April 1
Group Discounts:
(Group of 4+ save 10% coupon code TEAM4SAVE10 )
(Group of 7+ email Theramoves for your coupon code)

Target Audience
OTs, OTAs, SLPs, PTs, PTAs, special educators, educators, social workers, and mental health professionals, parents

Instruction Methods
Lecture, slides, video, case studies

Level
Introductory

A child’s intensity is not a problem to suppress—it’s a profound strength that needs to be understood, channeled, and nurtured. Yet many parents, teachers, and therapists find themselves overwhelmed by the intensity of a challenging child. When faced with explosive anger, aggression, defiance, or chronic disrespect, adults often respond by doubling down on traditional behavior-management strategies. Unfortunately, these typical approaches can unintentionally escalate the very behaviors they’re meant to reduce. Despite the best of intentions, the more adults apply conventional parenting, teaching, or counseling methods with an intense child, the more entrenched the negative cycles can become. Many of these children are quickly labeled with ADHD or other behavioral disorders and placed on medication simply because adults feel out of options. Meanwhile, the child’s extraordinary intensity remains untapped and misunderstood.

This workshop offers a powerful alternative. Participants will learn a highly effective framework that transforms intensity from a source of disruption into a source of success. You will gain immediately usable strategies to help children regulate, connect, and thrive—without power struggles and without escalating consequences. Join us to learn how to ignite children’s greatness.

 

 

 

 

 

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Downloads

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About the Instructor

Howard Glasser dives into the Nurtured Heart Approach | TheramovesHoward Glasser is Founder and creator and developer of the Nurtured Heart Approach®. He is a voice of greatness for children as they find their own voices of greatness. Howard’s background is in family treatment, clinical studies, and educational leadership. His formal studies, along with direct experience with the most intense and challenging children, form the basis of the approach that he has now brought to many.
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Learning Outcomes

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to…

  • Describe the core dynamics underlying challenging behavior in high intensity children and how they show up educational and home environments
  • Explain why conventional methods of behavioral management often fail with intense children
  • Facilitate the shift of the challenging child to using his/ her own intensity from dysregulated intensity to productive engagement
  • Implement techniques that create experiences of authentic success that are more powerful and extensive than traditional approaches in order to reinforce regulation, self- efficacy and adaptive participation across daily activities
  • Utilize strategies to maintain accountability in the child while avoiding inadvertent reinforcement of negative behaviors

Agenda

8:00-9:30 – Introduction to the Nurtured Heart Approach: Dynamics of the Challenging Child/Crucial concepts for Energizing Success/ Therapeutic Stances.

9:30-9:45   – Break

9:45-11:30 Techniques: Strategic Methods of Energizing Success.

11:30-12:00 Lunch 

12:00-1:00 –  Limit Setting

1:00-1:15 Break

1:15-2:45 – Advanced Techniques: Deepening the process of energizing success and extending the system, helping the child to be successful in school and other environments.

2:45–3:00 Questions and Answers

CEU Details

ASHA approved provider | Theramoves
Introductory Level
0.6 ASHA CEUs

ASHA self study option will be available from May 1-May 31
Running time: 6.0 hours (not including lunch and breaks)

 

Theramoves is an aota approved provider

TheraMoves is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval # 15298. This distant learning-interactive course is offered at 0.6 CEUs, a beginner educational level, in the area of occupational therapy service delivery and foundation knowledge. The
assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

 

NY SED for OTs, PTs, SLPs | Theramoves

  • TheraMoves Services, LLC, is Approved for Sponsor by New York State Board for OTs & OTAs
  • Approved for 6 contact hours by NYSED’s State Board for speech language pathologist
  • Approved by NYSED for Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE hours) (CTLE approval 23490)
  • Approved for Social Workers by the NY State ED Dept. #SW-0499
  • Theramoves Services, LLC. is recognized by the NY State Education Department, State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider for PT &  PTA continuing education. This webinar qualifies for 7.2 contact hours 0.72 CEUs

 

To obtain your certificate of completion:

  • Credits listed are offered by Theramoves for full attendance.
  • ASHA partial credit will not be awarded for this webinar
  • Attendance is tracked automatically by the online platform “ZOOM”
  • Learning assessment will be completed via an online post-course quiz. Passing a multiple choice with 70% accuracy within 1 week is required to receive your certificate of completion.

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