OCN Level 6 course

Over 100 hours of evidence based information to support families at all levels.

Module 1: Attachment

Module 2: Introduction to Sleep & Family Centred Care

Module 3: Sleep Biology

Module 4: Sleep Cycles Across the Lifespan

Module 5: Sleep Hygiene, Bedtime Routines, and the Optimal Sleep Environment

Module 6: Sleep Strategies

Module 7: Child Temperament, Development, Behaviour and Parenting

Module 8: Feeding Problems, Reflux, Colic and Wind

Module 9: Food, Eating and Nutrition

Module 10: Allergies and Intolerance

Module 11: Health

Module 12: Anxiety and Sleep

Module 13: Sensory and Special Needs

Module 14: Race and Culture

This training included:

• Sleep philosophies
• The Impacts of Sleep
• Understanding Sleep Cycles and Circadian Rhythm
• Normal Infant Sleep through the ages
• Sleep Challenges - Sleep Associations, Regressions, Naps, & Night Feeds
• Self-soothing & Controlled Crying
• Safe Sleep & Safe Co-sleeping
• Supporting Sleep Change
• Sleep Strategies
• Supporting Clients & Better Sleep for Adults
• Assessment & Evaluation
• Food & Sleep
• Why Sleep Habits Are Important
• Common Sleep Problems
• Review of Different Approaches to Sleep Coaching
• Infant Mental Health

Approved by the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, and led by sleep professional, Violet Giannone, the IPSP™ is a leader in pediatric sleep education. Some topics discussed in the program include:

° The Science of Sleep

° Valuable, Real-World Experience

° Infant & Toddler Sleep Basics

° Sleep training techniques

° Bumps in the road

° Creating customized sleep plans

° When to refer out

Not everyone grows up as they get older. The construct of psychological immaturity is not new, but only recently has developmental science advanced to the point where the idea of developmental arrest can be spelled out and employed as a powerful explanatory tool for problems in learning and behaving. Once kids are stuck, the usual ways of dealing with behaviour - including sanctions, consequences, and time-outs - actually make things worse. This flagship course, organized around the constructs of maturation and stuckness, provides a grounding in the conceptual foundations of Dr. Neufeld's formulation of the attachment-based developmental approach.

No one is more susceptible to being misunderstood than the preschooler. Precocious, brazen, obsessive, endearing, hysterical, impulsive, anxious, delightful, unreflective, dogmatic, generous, unstable, aggressive, resistant, compulsive, and anything but consistent - the preschooler could qualify for any number of personality and behaviour disorders. Unlike infants and toddlers, preschoolers actually bear a resemblance to grown-ups and therefore fool us into thinking that they are much more like us than they really are. Projecting our psychology onto them is a typical mistake.

To make sense of the preschooler is to make sense of the very essentials of human development. Once the primary principles of development are appreciated together with their purpose, the developmental deficits that plague the preschooler become transparent and understandable. Rather than pushing them to be other than who they are, we can celebrate their differences. Instead of trying to get them to grow up, we can attend to providing the conditions that are conducive to their transformation. Knowing what they need is the key to knowing how to dance with them.

Course Objectives:

• to explain the principles of development as they apply to preschoolers
• to appreciate the conditions that are required for preschoolers to grow out of their shortcomings
• to appreciate the role of development in the preschooler, both as an explanation for behaviour and as a resolution to their shortcomings
• to provide ways of dealing with problem behaviour without putting in jeopardy healthy development
• to understand the preschooler in the context of the master plan for human development
• to understand the role of the limbic system in preschooler development
• to appreciate the role of rest and play in the preschooler development
• to appreciate brain development as it applies to the preschooler
• to understand the dangers of nipping problems in the bud when they are developmentally based
• to discern the difference between true social development and how it is typically assessed in preschool
• to find developmentally friendly ways of dealing with tantrums and aggression
• to help create a philosophy of parenting that can last through childhood
• to understand the role of shyness and counterwill in development
• to appreciate the sources of preschooler anxiety and how to address it