Love and Logic: Adults Supporting Youth with Challenging Pasts

Trusted Expertise

Over 48 years of proven parenting and teaching strategies.

Flexible Learning

Accessible via audios, eBooks, and online courses.

Positive Approach

Builds loving relationships with firm yet caring guidance.

What will you Learn

Trauma’s Impact: Understand how challenging pasts affect behavior and development.

Building Trust: Foster secure relationships to promote healing and resilience.

Effective Discipline: Use empathy-driven strategies to address challenging behaviors.

Promoting Responsibility: Teach youth to own their actions and make positive choices.

Self-Care Practices: Learn to manage stress and prevent burnout while supporting others.

Trauma-Informed Care

With this new curriculum train:

Foster and adoptive parents
Educators
Social workers
Counselors
And others serving children and teens who’ve experienced trauma

This curriculum is designed to cut through the complexity of these very challenging topics and provide real solutions that can be applied immediately... rather than lots of theory or abstract ideas. Step-by-step instructions are provided for each of the six modules.

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Key Benefits

Raise responsible and mentally strong children with actionable, research-backed strategies to navigate modern parenting.

Why It Matters

Empower yourself with tools to build emotional health, resilience, and confidence in your children, preparing them for life's challenges.

About the Authors

Authored by Charles Fay, Ph. D. Expert in practical parenting solutions, behavior management, and education.

There are 5 modules in this course

Module 1: Attachment Relationships are the Foundation

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Participants will learn:

The basics of the Love and Logic approach
Early childhood and the importance of the Trust Cycle
The effects of trauma and impaired attachment on social, emotional, and behavioral development and adjustment
The role played by healthy attachment relationships, boundaries, and success experiences on the healing process
Essential skills and attitudes for avoiding power struggles and conflicts that interfere with the healing process
Strategies for building healthy attachment relationships, self-esteem, and resilience

Module 2: Dealing with Defiance and Other Difficult Behavior

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Participants will learn:

To identify patterns of adult-child interactions that contribute to defiance and other negative behaviors, and learn strategies to avoid these patterns
Why consequences without empathy and love are counterproductive
The benefits of teaching youth through positive attitudes and natural consequences
The importance of restitution, appropriate consequences, and other strategies for teaching healthy behavior
The Hope Cycle

Module 3: Nothing Works Without Sincere Empathy

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Participants will learn:

The differences between empathy and sympathy, and how sincere empathy affects brain functioning and behavior
Why using empathy is essential for helping youth with trauma develop self-control, cause and effect thinking, and other social/emotional skills
How to remain calm and empathetic when a youth is displaying serious and upsetting behavior
Why many youths appear to initially react negatively to empathy, as well as how to respond to them when they do

Module 4: Setting Limits While Minimizing Power Struggles

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Participants will learn:

Why healthy limits and boundaries are essential to development of trust and positive attachment relationships
How to identify when limits are essential and ensure that limits are enforceable
The role of perceived control as a basic emotional need and the strategic use of choices
Attitudes and skills essential for effectively responding to limit and boundary testing
How to anticipate and reduce power struggles by appropriate sharing of control within limits

Module 5: Supporting Learning and Achievement at School

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Participants will learn:

The basic processes underlying intrinsic achievement motivation
The negative cognitive and motivational impacts of trauma and other forms of disruption
Why many consequences and other interventions often make the problem worse
How learning happens only after basic needs are met
How to identify common social and emotional barriers to intrinsic motivation
A game plan for addressing the root causes of chronic underachievement and ending the control battle over learning

Module 6: Empowering Them Toward Success in Life

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Participants will learn:

How to address unmet needs for control and self-competence and why these unmet needs play a powerful role in achievement motivation
Tips for preventing or addressing chronic dependency, hostility, and entitlement
The importance of chores, responsibility, and self-esteem for academic motivation
How to help them build self-competence by identifying and focusing on their strengths and by teaching practical problem-solving skills
How to take a proactive approach to helping youth own and solve the problems they encounter
How to guide youth toward success by identifying and focusing on their strengths

Kit Overview

1. Facilitator Guide	Includes step-by-step instructions for facilitating six separate sessions (1.5-2 hours each).
2. Instructional Video Modules	Five hours of video content by Charles Fay, Ph.D., on USB or DVDs.
3. Participant Workbooks	Includes ten workbooks, available in English or Spanish. Each participant keeps their workbook. Additional workbooks are $9 each, with a 10% discount for bulk orders (50+).
4. Tote Bag	A convenient tote bag for easy carrying and storing of materials.
5. Exclusive Facilitator Content	Access to media/marketing kits, bonus videos, certificates, and more resources.

Love and Logic: Adults Supporting Youth with Challenging Pasts (Trauma Informed Care)