Psychology for Everyday Living: Keeping the Shark Away: Parenting Tools to Manage Child Mood, Worries, and Behaviour

Date: November 24, 2016: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20 at the door, free for Saint Paul University students – no registration required.*
Location: room 203 - Auditorium, Saint Paul University
Presenter: Laura Lynne Armstrong

photo of Dr. Laura Lynne Armstrong Dr. Laura Lynne Armstrong is a Clinical Psychologist who works with children, youth, and adults presenting with a variety of social, emotional and behavioral concerns. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. Dr. Armstrong is actively involved in research on R.E.A.L. Therapy (Rational-Emotive Attachment Logotherapy) and development of the D.R.E.A.M. Program curriculum: Developing Resilience through Emotions, Attitudes, and Meaning. The D.R.E.A.M. program is a school-based mental health promotion program for children ages 6 to 12 that uses original music and hands-on activities to teach skills for resilience.

This Psychology for Everyday Living session will review positive parenting approaches using Rational-Emotive Attachment Logotherapy.

Psychology for Everyday Living is presented by Saint Paul University in collaboration with Capital Choice Counselling Group.

*Open to the public. Psychology for Everyday Living offers 10 to 15 minutes of taped abstracts found on YouTube, plus a 1.5-hour public lecture at Saint Paul University on the last Thursday of the month.