31st Annual Conference with Jessica Minahan, Ph.D., BCBA
Since 2000, Jessica’s work has focused on helping clinicians, teachers, and parents identify and understand the variables that cause children with anxiety, trauma, and other mental health challenges to act inappropriately.
With up to one in three children struggling with anxiety in this country, overwhelmed adults require a new approach as well as a practical and easy-to-implement toolkit of strategies that work.
Through case studies, humorous stories, and examples of everyday
challenging situations, participants will learn easy-to-implement preventive tools, strategies, and interventions for reducing anxiety, increasing self-regulation, promoting accurate thinking, and enhancing self-monitoring in students.
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the relationship between anxiety and working memory.
- Identify why common interventions may not always work for students with anxiety-related behavior.
- Describe why traditional breaks might not promote regulation with anxiety or trauma histories.
- Enumerate strategies for reducing negative thinking and resistance toward writing.
- Identify strategies to promote initiation skills in students with work avoidance.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Minahan, Ph.D., BCBA, LABA, is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst, author, special educator, and consultant to schools internationally. She specializes in training staff and creating behavior intervention plans for students who demonstrate explosive and unsafe behavior. Jessica also works with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, anxiety disorders, trauma histories, and Autism. Her particular interest is to serve these students by combining behavioral interventions with a comprehensive knowledge of best practices for those with complex mental health profiles and learning needs.
She is a blogger on The Huffington Post, the author of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students with Nancy Rappaport (Harvard Education Press, 2012), and the author of The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (Harvard Education Press, 2014).
Jessica is sought after internationally to speak on subjects ranging from effective interventions for students with anxiety to supporting hard-to-reach students in full-inclusion public school settings.
CE CREDITS
Educators – VT, NH, MA:
5 Professional Development Points or 6 Credit Hours
Marriage and Family Therapist:
6 Credit Hours
MH Counselors:
6 Credit Hours
Credits accepted by MAMHCA, VTMHCA, NHMHCA, & CTMHCAS
School Counselors: 6 Credit Hours
School Psychologists: 6 Credit Hours
Social Workers: 6 Credit Hours
Substance Abuse Counselors: 6 Credit Hours
Fall Conference Registration
$115.00
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$115 Early Bird special pricing available for group and individual tickets. After October 10, 2025, Group rate is $130, Individual rate is $145.Additional information
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