Stop, Drop and Connect: A New Way To Handle Bad Behaviors

Event Date: 07/09/2026
Registration Closes: 07/09/2026
Event Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM

Event Type: Live In-person
Total CE Credits: 5.5
Clinical Hours: 5.5

General Admission: $0 CE Cost: $55

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Description

Parenting and working with children and teens through adoption or foster care often means facing big
emotions, unpredictable reactions, and behaviors that can feel defiant or confusing. Traditional parenting and discipline strategies—like consequences, lectures, or reward charts—often backfire when trauma, loss, or brain-based differences are part of the picture.

In this session, we’ll explore a trauma-responsive, connection-centered approach that helps parents move from reacting to reconnecting. Through real-life examples and practical tools, participants will learn how to respond to behaviors like raging, lying, and stealing with empathy and brain-based understanding. Instead of power struggles, you’ll discover strategies that calm the moment, build trust, and promote healing—for both you and your child.

Training Objectives:
1. Understand how trauma, loss, and neurodiversity impact behavior and emotional regulation in adopted and foster children.
2. Reframe challenging behaviors such as lying and stealing through a brain-based, trauma-informed lens.
3. Explain the concept of confabulation and use compassionate strategies when responding to perceived
dishonesty.
4. Apply relational, connected responses that reduce anxiety and build safety and trust.

Speaker & Bio

Barb Clark

Barb Clark, founder of FASD Mosaic, is a nationally recognized speaker, coach, and trainer known for translating brain science into practical, real-world strategies. Grounded in a connected, relational parenting approach, she helps caregivers and professionals better understand behavior through a brain-based lens and build meaningful, supportive relationships with individuals who have complex neurodevelopmental needs. She specializes in addressing some of the most challenging behaviors—including raging, lying, and stealing—by helping others understand the underlying brain science driving them. As an adult living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and an adoptive parent of five adult children (including one with FASD), Barb brings honesty, humor, and hope to conversations about behavior and connection. Barb is also the author of Raising Kids and Teens with FASD: Advice and Strategies to Help Your Family Thrive.