The Well Mind is a space for meaningful conversations about a broad range of wellness related topics, with a special emphasis on mental wellness. I’m your host Dr. Ben Kohls. I’ve been a practicing clinical mental health counselor for over 15 years and am currently a counselor educator and director for the CMHC graduate program at Bethany Lutheran College. For this episode, I invited one of our adjunct faculty, Dr. Ashley Schoof, to join me for a conversation on an evidence-based intervention for working with kids and teens. Ashley is the professor for our program’s child and adolescent counseling course and she is the clinical director for an youth focused intensive day treatment program, called Strong, located in inner city Milwaukee Wisconsin. Ashley is passionate about her work and generously shares her depth of knowledge and experience in helping kids and teens from hard places with their mental health. In our conversation, Ashley lays out the fundamental pillars for early attachment and how trauma and other adverse childhood experiences derail the neurological processes of development for healthy self-regulation and executive functioning. She and her team at Strong implement the Trust-Based Relational Intervention or TBRI, which is an evidence-based approach to helping kids and teens heal emotionally, relationally, and neurologically. We take a deep dive into the practices and applications of TBRI from a treatment perspective as well as how this approach can be implemented by parents in the home and teachers in the classroom. This episode is a must listen for anyone who deeply cares about the relationships they have with the kids and teens in their life. It was a joy to have the chat with Ashley and a privilege to share it with you today.
Notes from Episode 31
The Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development: https://child.tcu.edu/#sthash.EinILIqI.dpbs
What is TBRI? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWScSJKjn1A
The Strong Milwaukee Center: https://strongcenters.info/
Christian Family Solutions Day Treatment: https://christianfamilysolutions.org/christian-counseling-care-and-services/day-treatment-programs/#strong-program
The Well Mind Podcast email: thewellmind@blc.edu
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