Scottsdale Supporters of the Gifted

Presents Barbara Probst

How to Understand and Help Your Terrific and Gifted... but Challenging Child: Practical Strategies for Intensity, Sensitivity, Perfectionism, and Inflexibility

10:00 AM There will be time for Questions!!!
Free admission sponsored by SSG

Format:
75 minute talk with Q&A, short break, and then small group workshop for those who wish to stay.

      BARBARA PROBST, MSW, LCSW, has been an educator and clinician for more than two decades helping families with challenging children. She lives in Westchester County, New York, and will be in Arizona as a key presenter at the AAGT conference.
     Scottsdale Supporters of the Gifted has asked Barbara to share her expertise with parents, educators and friends.  We are offering you the opportunity to attend this eye-opening and informative parenting presentation as our GIFT to you in 2010.  Please come!  Bring a friend and join us and prepare yourself to start this year parenting with confidence.
What's so different about Barbara's approach?
-Barbara rejects the idea that every child who's hard to handle or doesn't fit in has a disorder. Many children go through tough times or seem extreme, eccentric, provocative, or immature at various points in their development.
 
-Barbara shows parents how to ask the right questions. Instead of asking if a child "has" ADHD, Asperger syndrome, or bipolar disorder, Barbara shows how to take the labels apart, zoom in to understand, and find places where change is possible.
 
-Barbara identifies the source of behavior problems. Barbara shows how problems come from unmet needs, discord, and imbalance - not from something inherently wrong or missing in the child's makeup.  She shows parents how to address the source of a child's problems, rather than the result.                                                 
 
-Barbara's advice can be customized to a child's specific traits and needs. Rather than trying to match the child to the label, Barbara shows parents how to understand their child's unique profile.
 
Contact Linda Levitt   Linda@educatingexlearners.com   602-390-4496.

Where?  Mustang Library
10101 N 90th St
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

When? Saturday, February 6, 2010, 10 AM