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Becoming Centered

Russ Bloch, MSW, MBA

This podcast is a field guide for professionals seeking perspectives and techniques for helping others find their balanced path. It"s also for people who want to learn the self-counseling pathways, navigation tools, and practices to live a centered life. Organized into several series, this podcast focuses on: (1) understanding the territory of personal psychology, (2) tools and techniques for counseling others in how to develop a centered and balanced life, and (3) tools and techniques for

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29. Managing Problem Behaviors

Becoming Centered ·

2024/01/24

This podcast episode presents a system for managing behavior problems, utilizing a variety of interconnected tools and techniques. The concept of contagion is introduced, explaining how behaviors, feelings, and thoughts can spread among individuals. The importance of interrupting behavioral patterns is highlighted, particularly using a technique known as "pattern interrupts." These interrupts aim to prevent escalation and promote a return to baseline functioning. A detailed example of a structural

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28. Twelve Transformational Beliefs

Becoming Centered ·

2024/01/17

This episode focuses on Beliefs as a powerful regulatory mechanism. Beliefs act as filters through which individuals perceive reality, and the host emphasizes the importance of consciously choosing beliefs. The key idea is that beliefs need not be evaluated based on their imagined truth, but on their usefulness and how well they serve an individual. Empowering and healthy beliefs can be consciously cultivated through two main strategies: tasking your brain to find evidence supporting the new

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27. The Aspect Compass & Self-Talk

Becoming Centered ·

2024/01/10

This podcast episode is intended to increase your awareness of Self-Talk and how you can coach your clients to use more effective and healthier Self-Talk. It uses the Aspect Compass (part of the Meta-Compass Model) to present different qualities of Self-Talk that appeal to the four cardinal aspects of your psyche called The Artist, The Scout, The Warrior, and The Chief. Using the Aspect Compass begins with the Artist (in the East), representing the domain of emotions. As children explore the

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26. Developing Executive Skills

Becoming Centered ·

2024/01/03

In this podcast episode, the focus is on aiding children and youth in residential treatment to develop executive skills, which are crucial for regulating emotions, thinking, and behavior. Developing residents executive skills is essential because it’s their deficits in being able to regulate their own feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that accounts for why they need to live at a treatment program in order to receive services, instead of living in the community / with their families. Executive

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25. The Eight Gifts

Becoming Centered ·

2023/12/27

This podcast presents a system of eight values and fits them within the Meta-Compass Model. This podcast explores the interplay between executive functions, values, and emotional, cognitive, and behavioral health, offering a practical framework for understanding and fostering these aspects in individuals, particularly children and youth. Values, separate from Executive Skills, serve as a mechanism for your inner Chief to regulate the other cardinal aspects of your psyche, the Artist, the Scout, and

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24. Heroes, Courage, and Fear

Becoming Centered ·

2023/12/20

This podcast builds off of the concept that, overall, our brains understand the totality of our life experiences as a story. It’s crucial for our mental health, and overall sense of becoming centered, to see ourselves as the hero of our own life-story. This is the situation for children and youth in residential treatment. Upon entering residential treatment, kids often feel at a low point, viewing their challenges as insurmountable. They need to become part of a classic story-line in which our

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23. Helping Kids Reason

Becoming Centered ·

2023/12/13

This podcast episode builds off of the concept of four different types of reasoning simultaneously performed by distinct parts of the brain. The inner Artist engages in Emotional-Reasoning, associating experiences with emotions. The inner Scout employs Magical-Reasoning, finding patterns and correlations to make sense of the world. The inner Warrior relies on Logical-Reasoning, basing actions on evidence and logic. The inner Chief, responsible for regulating the brain, uses Influencer-Reasoning,

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22. Understanding Reasoning

Becoming Centered ·

2023/12/06

This podcast presents a way to understand the brain’s ability to use reasoning to become cognitively centered. Emotional centering involves regulating the intensity and switching between emotional states. Behavioral centering, particularly physiological centering, focuses on transitioning from extremes to a calm baseline. It’s a little harder to understand the concept of becoming cognitively centered, but a good place to start is with a look at how the brain employs reasoning. A traditional

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21. Becoming Physiologically Centered

Becoming Centered ·

2023/11/29

This episode focuses on how to help child-clients become physiologically centered. Previous episodes have focused on helping children become emotionally and cognitively centered. Emotional centering involves regulating extremes of emotions, and developing reaction inhibition and stress tolerance. Various tools, such as the Check-in and Empathic Listening can be really useful for helping kids become emotionally centered. Cognitive centering techniques include the use of tools like the Feelings

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20. Stories - The Bear Clan Origin pt. 1-3

Becoming Centered ·

2023/11/22

This episode is a departure from the usual format by sharing original teaching stories. Storytelling and stories are a fundamental modality for learning. Our brains are wired to process experiences in the form of a narrative. Telling stories builds connections between adults and children, whether the adult is the storyteller or the child. Telling stories, or listening to stories together, fosters a sense of shared experience and strengthens the therapeutic alliance. Stories engage various parts of

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19. Management and Delegating

Becoming Centered ·

2023/11/15

This podcast episode discusses the importance of management and delegation within residential treatment programs for children and youth. It highlights the different levels of management within such organizations, including Executive Management responsible for overall leadership, Senior Management overseeing major aspects of the agency's operations, Middle Managers handling specific service units, and Frontline Managers leading shifts. It emphasizes that effective management is essential to provide

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18. Processing Suicidal Ideation

Becoming Centered ·

2023/11/08

This podcast episode is the second part of a series that addresses how to intervene when dealing with suicidal ideation in children and youth. It emphasizes the importance of training for counselors and aims to make discussing this sensitive subject more approachable. An important focus is for counselors is to help clients understand suicidal ideation as a symptom rather than delving into the "why" behind it, which is a task for therapists. The episode emphasizes the need to distance clients from

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17. Suicidal Ideation

Becoming Centered ·

2023/11/01

This podcast episode discusses the challenging issue of dealing with suicidal ideation among child-clients in residential treatment. The podcast offers insights into different scenarios where staff may encounter suicidal ideation in child-clients and explains the unique challenges residential staff face, such as having to be the front-line mental health professionals, despite formal training. The episode introduces the Columbia Protocol, a set of questions used to assess suicidal ideation, and

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16. The Aspect Compass & Meeting Kids' Needs

Becoming Centered ·

2023/10/25

This podcast presents a powerful perspective for helping your child-clients become centered. It’s based on understanding your kids’ needs through The Aspect Compass, a model representing four aspects of the psyche: The Artist (emotions), The Scout (cognitions), The Warrior (behaviors), and The Chief (executive skills). Each aspect has unique needs that, when addressed, can help children become centered and balanced: For the inner Artist: Getting sufficient attention. Experiencing

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15. Processing Feelings

Becoming Centered ·

2023/10/18

This episode explores various techniques for helping children process their feelings and develop emotional regulation skills. The episode begins with a recap of previous discussions on physiological coregulation and processing aimed at helping kids become cognitively centered. The focus then shifts to processing feelings, which can be more difficult, because emotions are challenging for children to articulate. Check-in’s are a basic tool for helping kids express their emotions. These check-in’s

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14. Time Outs

Becoming Centered ·

2023/10/11

This podcast episode discusses the use of timeouts as a common and effective technique in residential treatment programs working with children and adolescents. Timeouts are employed to manage disruptive behaviors and prevent the spread of problematic behaviors and emotions within a group, similar to containing a fire's spread. The episode emphasizes the importance of setting limits in a firm but non-harsh manner to encourage cooperation and internalization. While timeouts can be used as a purely

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13. Setting Firm Limits

Becoming Centered ·

2023/10/04

This podcast episode explores the crucial role of structure and firm, yet respectful, limit-setting in residential care for troubled children. Structures and external boundaries are essential for creating order in a group environment, especially when dealing with children facing various challenges such as trauma, ADHD, developmental delays, and mental health issues. A core value in a treatment setting is that respect should not be something earned but freely given, as it is a gift that helps build

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12. Structure and Structural Interventions

Becoming Centered ·

2023/09/27

This podcast delves into the fundamental structures of residential treatment programs and the concept of structural interventions. While theoretically residential treatment could customize programs for each individual, practicality dictates the need for a standardized framework designed to meet the overall needs of a group of kids. The concept of program structures includes physical aspects like room configurations and the flow of rooms, as well as how clients are allowed to move throughout a

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11. Neurological Coregulation

Becoming Centered ·

2023/09/20

This podcast discusses the importance of coregulation in residential treatment settings for children who are emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally disorganized. Coregulation refers to the process where an adult's nervous system synchronizes with a child's, helping the child learn self-control and emotional regulation. Coregulation starts from infancy when a baby's nervous system is linked with the mother's. Over time, babies learn to independently regulate their bodily functions, but they still

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10. After Physical Restraints

Becoming Centered ·

2023/09/13

This podcast episode is part four of a series addressing the use of physical restraints and interventions in response to extreme client behaviors, particularly in residential treatment settings. The previous episodes discussed the uncomfortable nature of these interventions and the necessity of their use for the safety of both staff and clients. The focus of this final episode is on post-restraint procedures to protect staff from the traumatic effects of such incidents. After a physical hold, staff

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