Girl Drama
Best Practices to Reduce Relational Aggression, Cyberbullying & Emotional Violence
Do You Know Students Who Have...
- Resistance or refusal to participate in normal school activities?
- Persistent moodiness
- Chosen social isolation?
- Sudden declines in school performance?
- Constant worries or anxieties?
- Extreme involvement with social media and/or digital games?
- Depression, sadness or irritability?
- Self-destructive behaviors
- Symptoms of substance abuse?
- Indifference to others’ feelings?
Seminar Overview
The focus of this one-day seminar is to provide educators specific strategies, activities and insights that can be used to confront and avoid girl drama and relational aggression.
Based upon the latest brain reseach, as well as current best practices, these interventions can be used to revive, launch or sustain efforts to prevent drama and emotional violence among girls. Without help, girls who are targets often suffer lasting effects – including academic withdrawal, social withdrawal, depression, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, crime, dysfunctional relationships, self-injury and even suicide.
Relational aggression among girls has intensified with the explosion of online communication/social media. While texting and Facebook are still widely used, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Vine, Google+, Skype, Oovoo, Facetime, Omegle, Whisper, Yik Yak, Ask.FM, reddit, Digg, Pinterest, Polyvore, Kik and WhatsApp are growing fast, and 92% of North American teens now own a smart phone, according to the latest Pew Research. With the exception of gaming, girls are far more likely than boys to access these online options.
This seminar will help attendees understand the underlying neuroscience, as well as the latest research concerning drama and relational aggression among girls. Attendees will be provided tools for instilling social/emotional connections among girls that reduce relational aggression and improve academic outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Integrate the latest research-based insights into your bullying and relational aggression prevention program
- Identify online communication and social media trends affecting today’s girls
- Discover how to instill social/emotional connections among girls
- Implement individual, small group and classroom strategies and activities
- Design or revise your own action plan for addressing female relational aggression
Earn Continuing Education Credit Hours
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Overview
The focus of this one-day training session is to provide educators specific strategies, activities and insights that can be used to confront and avoid girl drama and relational aggression.
Based upon the latest brain reseach, as well as current best practices, these interventions can be used to revive, launch or sustain efforts to prevent drama and emotional violence among girls. Without help, girls who are targets often suffer lasting effects – including academic withdrawal, social withdrawal, depression, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, crime, dysfunctional relationships, self-injury and even suicide.
Relational aggression among girls has intensified with the explosion of online communication/social media. While texting and Facebook are still widely used, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Vine, Google+, Skype, Oovoo, Facetime, Omegle, Whisper, Yik Yak, Ask.FM, reddit, Digg, Pinterest, Polyvore, Kik and WhatsApp are growing fast, and 92% of North American teens now own a smart phone, according to the latest Pew Research. With the exception of gaming, girls are far more likely than boys to access these online options.
This on-site training will help attendees understand the underlying neuroscience, as well as the latest research concerning drama and relational aggression among girls. Attendees will be provided tools for instilling social/emotional connections among girls that reduce relational aggression and improve academic outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Integrate the latest research-based insights into your bullying and relational aggression prevention program
- Identify online communication and social media trends affecting today’s girls
- Discover how to instill social/emotional connections among girls
- Implement individual, small group and classroom strategies and activities
- Design or revise your own action plan for addressing female relational aggression
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– Classroom Teachers
– Principals
– Special Education Personnel
– School Counselors & Psychologists
– Other Administrators
– Social Workers (all levels)
– Law Enforcement/SRO
– Counselors & Therapists in Agencies & Private Practice
– Media Specialists
9:45 am ET/6:45 am PT Registration
10:00 am ET/7:00 am PT How Nature and Nurture Influence Girl Drama, Relational Aggression & Bullying
- Implications from Brain Research
- Gender Identity, Socialization and Parenting
- Current Social Media Sites and Implications
- Social Media Case Studies and Interventions
11:30 am ET/8:30 am PT The Impact of Social Networking & Technology on RA
- Current Trends & Practices to Promote Self-Awareness and Support Healthy Identity Development
- Current Social Media Sites and Implications
- Social Media Impact and Interventions
12:00 pm ET/9:00 am PT Prevention Strategies for Schools
- How a Trauma-informed Approach Can Prevent RA Behaviors in Schools
- Wellness Wheel: 5 Dimensions of Wellness
1:00 pm ET/10:00 am PT Lunch
1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT Prevention Strategies for Schools
- Creating a Culture of Learning with SEL
- School-based Strategies to Promote Wellness and Healthy Relationships
3:00 pm ET/12:00 pm PT Individual & Group Strategies to Address RA
- Mindfulness and Resiliency Activities
- Next Steps to Success: Initiating Your Action Plan
4:30 pm ET/3:30 pm CT Question & Answer Session
Certificates of Completion for this seminar, which indicate 6 contact hours of Continuing Education, will be available at the end of the seminar upon completion of a course evaluation. In many cases, depending on your Profession and Jurisdiction, this Certificate of Completion is sufficient for tracking your Continuing Education and Professional Development efforts. We suggest that you contact your local Board or Governing Agency to see exactly what steps are necessary for approval in your particular discipline. Please note that Developmental Resources is also an approved Provider for the following National and Regional Accrediting Agencies.
Developmental Resources has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5602. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Seminar Information
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| 8:00-8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30-10:00 | How Nature and Nurture Influence Girl Drama, Relational Aggression & Bullying
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| 10:00-10:15 | Break |
| 10:15-11:00 | The Impact of Social Networking & Technology on RA
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| 11:00-12:00 | Prevention Strategies for Schools
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| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch (On Your Own) |
| 1:00-2:30 | RA and Mental Health
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| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | Individual & Group Strategies to Address RA
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| 3:45-4:15 | Networking Group Discussion (Optional Attendance) |
– Classroom Teachers
– Principals
– Special Education Personnel
– School Counselors & Psychologists
– Other Administrators
– Social Workers (all levels)
– Law Enforcement/SRO
– Counselors & Therapists in Agencies & Private Practice
– Media Specialists
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Certificates of Completion for this seminar, which indicate 6 contact hours of Continuing Education, will be available at the end of the seminar upon completion of a course evaluation. In many cases, depending on your Profession and Jurisdiction, this Certificate of Completion is sufficient for tracking your Continuing Education and Professional Development efforts. We suggest that you contact your local Board or Governing Agency to see exactly what steps are necessary for approval in your particular discipline. Please note that Developmental Resources is also an approved Provider for the following National and Regional Accrediting Agencies.
Developmental Resources has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5602. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Presenters
Steph Jensen, MS, LPC
*In case of an emergency, another qualified presenter will substitute
Steph Jensen is an award-winning author and international speaker recognized for her insight and with research, practical strategies and humor to address challenging behaviors and build positive relationships with kids. She has held positions as classroom teacher, education consultant and international speaker. She holds a master’s degree in clinical counseling, focusing her efforts on adolescent and family issues.
In recent years, Stephanie has applied her passion for adolescents to focus on the dynamics of relational aggression, social-emotional learning, and positive behavior interventions. Stephanie is currently the Director of Community Contracts for Boys Town in Boys Town, NE. She is the author of Thrive in the Hive: Surviving the Girl’s World of Good and Bad Relationship Bee-haviors, Mom’s Choice Award-winning Princess Priscilla and the Bully-Bee Day, Princess Priscilla and the Mood Ring Rainbow and her latest Princess Priscilla and the Great Beezilla!
Tracie Berry-McGhee, M.Ed., NCC, LPC
Tracie Berry-McGhee founded the SistaKeeper Empowerment Center in St. Louis 12 years ago with the mission of inspiring and developing the mind, body and spirit of young women. SistaKeeper has since spread to other locations within the United States and several other countries. Tracie also continues to serve the community via her private counseling practice, which specializes in women and teen girl issues. She is often called upon to speak on topics such as conflict resolution, delaying with low self-esteem and bullying. Tracie is the author of SistaKeeper Poetry for the Soul, I’m a Keeper and OWN your NOW.
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Girl Drama Resources
Mean Girls: 101 1/2 Creative Strategies and Actives for Working with Relational Aggression with CD
by Kaye Randall & Allyson Bowen
The strategies in this book are designed to increase awareness of Relational Aggression(RA), encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self control and coping skills. It explores the underlying causes of RA, particularly in girls and provides professionals with 101 1/2 resources, insights, strategies and reproducible worksheets for working with girls who are Relationally Aggressive and those who have been victimized by this type of bullying.
Includes CD.
See My Pain
by Susan Bowman & Kaye Randall
This book provides a collection of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. When working with youth who self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approaches at your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives. The book provides a description of self-injury in young people and its underlying causes. Then, an overview of therapeutic approaches is presented along with suggestions for the professional counselor/social worker/psychologist, teachers and parents. Sample assessment questions and activities are included.
Mind Designs: Encouraging Self-Disclosure through Coloring Therapy with CD
by Angela Troppa
This book and CD will provide you with a unique, powerful tool that will help facilitate deeper personal conversations with young people. The reproducible worksheets have been field-tested with children and adolescents who are experiencing trauma and/or young people with mild to severe social/emotional/behavioral challenges.
Princess Priscilla and the Bully-Bee Day
by Steph Jensen
WINNER OF THE MOM’S CHOICE AWARD!
Princess Priscilla is having a rotten day. No bee will listen to what she has to say and no bee will play what she wants to play. In her sour mood, Priscilla finds herself acting rude. She hurts her friends with words that sting and learns they think she is being a bully-bee.
After being confronted by her friends, Priscilla feels upset and is determined to be a better princess bee. She listens to her mom, the Queen, and learns to tame her inner bully-bee. Priscilla starts by using words that are kind and sweet like honey. She learns to control her mood by not acting rude and her friendlier attitude helps her mend hurt feelings and keep friends.
Princess Priscilla and the Great Beezilla
by Steph Jensen
There is a new bee in the hive, but is she a bee or is she a bug? Her name is Iris and she is really a beetle who wants to “bee” friends with Priscilla and her Honey Bunch so she disguises herself as a bee. Some of the bees refuse to play with her because of how strange and funny she looks. When Princess Priscilla meets Iris, she invites her to play and does not judge her for her strange looks, but she is suspicious.
After Iris finally admits that she disguised herself as a bee, Princess Priscilla tells her that she doesn’t need to look like them but to just “bee” herself. Iris is relieved to find out that she doesn’t have to pretend anymore. The other bees apologize for judging her by her looks and they invite her to “bee” their friend.
Thrive in the Hive with CD – Surviving the Girl’s World of Good and Bad Relationship Bee-haviors
by Steph Jensen
While girls and boys deal with many of the same issues; some growing-up struggles are unique to the experience of being a girl in our society. This resource can help provide a foundation for girls to navigate through many of these issues. Using this curriculum, girls gain a stronger sense of self-worth and belonging in their families, with their peers, and in their communities.
Thrive in the Hive provides a curriculum of lessons, activities and reproducible pages to be used with individuals, or for an eight-week small group session with girls.
The girls will explore different roles that girls assume within the structure of social cliques. It also includes interactive lessons to guide girls on a journey to explore the keys to building healthy friendships. The sessions include an introduction and activity for personal reflection.
Black Girl Blues
by Carolyn Strong
Black Girl Blues: Small Group Sessions, Activities and Discussions to Combat Intra-Racial Bullying focuses on the relationships between African-American girls. It exposes the historical, cultural and social factors behind girl bullying among the African-American culture. While economic status and identity development are among the causes, physical characteristics are also often the source of intra-racial bullying.
This helpful book can be used by’professional school counselors, teachers, administrators, youth leaders and/or other professionals who interact with African-American girls. The lessons are aligned with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Standards.
Stop Bullying Thumball
The Thumball is a soft stuffed ball to throw, roll, or pass in a circle or randomly. Once a player catches it, he or she looks under his thumb and responds to the prompt. Kids absolutely love this interactive tool that will get them talking and sharing. Meanwhile, teachers and counselors will be encouraging the use of interpersonal skills including taking turns, making eye contact, listening, responding, valuing similarities and respecting individual differences.
Using this learning aid, players respond to prompts around the topic of bullying. Discussions may include what students can say to a bully, what it feels like to be bullied, what are the results of bullying and how bystanders help. This offers a fun way to discuss a serious topic that affects many students. This game can encourage students to talk openly about how bullying affects them and others at their school while encouraging victims of bullying to speak out and for bullies and bystanders to share their perspectives as well. Students are invited to share suggestions and ideas while other students learn to listen and respect the opinions of their peers.