Ensuring We Can Regulate Our Behavior and Emotions
I didn’t mean it; I am just so stressed out…
For one young woman, controlling her emotions has never been easy. As a child, she would lose her temper whenever someone wouldn’t want to play with her, or the family ate something she didn’t want that day. Then, as she got older, she thought that her ability to handle her emotions would change, when in reality, only the stressors did. She would find socializing, getting all of her schoolwork done, going to work, and interacting with others stressful, so when something didn’t go her way, she would lash out.
When she was younger, she would hit, scream, and have melt downs, and as she got older, she would shut down, exhibit avoidance behaviors, refuse to get a job and become independent, and more all because she couldn’t emotionally regulate and control her behavior. Even when she did move out, her inability to react in an age-appropriate way caused her relationships with her roommates to become strained before disintegrating completely.
This then led to the young woman to start what felt like an endless cycle of becoming independent and moving out before being unable to regulation her behavior and emotions on her own and ending back at square one to start again until her and her family realized there needs to be a change.
Do you too, see a need for change?
Does your child…
- Have a meltdown at a small inconvenience?
- Withdraw socially?
- Fidget in appropriate ways/times (ex: Yelling out in class, playing with loud toys, etc.)?
- Lash out often (physically and emotionally) (screaming, hitting, etc.)?
- Speak poorly about themselves?
- Exhibit avoidance behaviors?
- Show a risk for Failure to Launch or is currently experiencing it?
- And more?
Well, at the Support for Students Growth Center we can help by…
- Teaching them breathing and other calming techniques in moments they may find it hard to relax
- Techniques to avoid physical and verbal lashing out
- Ways to help them advocate form themselves that is not only beneficial for them mentally but is effective for every party involved.
- How to deal with the other things in life that may be adding onto the stress causing them to lash out.
- How to continue to use these techniques every day/as often as needed
- How to prevent outburst, and if they do happen, how to deal with them appropriately afterwards
- And more!
At the Support for Students Growth Center, we provide social, behavioral, educational, emotional, and executive functioning skills services children, teens, young adults, and their families, who may be Neurodivergent or not need for a happy and successful life in and out of school settings. Our team of professionals offers individualized and family coaching/counseling and social skills groups to help teach skills such as how to remain organized to ensure parents do not have to worry that their kids will be unable to make and maintain a functioning independent life on their own. So, if your child is struggling with skills like the ones listed above and much more, the SSGC is equipped with the tools to help.
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Dr. Eric J. Nach, Ph.D., M.Ed., A.S.D.C., is a Developmental and Behavioral Specialist who specializes in Autism, ADHD and related disorders. Dr. Nach is the founder of the Support for Students Growth Center and College Life Skills Program where he and his team of professional’s help develop the Emotional Maturity, Executive Functioning, Life Skill and Social Abilities of children, teens, young adults and college students and those high school students preparing for college.
