Regulation and Co-Regulation: Accessible Neuroscience and Connection Strategies that Bring Calm into the Classroom

By Ginger Healy, MSW, LCSW

What are the keys to bringing emotional stability to your home and classroom through balanced regulation and co-regulation?

We’ve all seen or experienced them: chaotic moments when emotional equilibrium gives way to outbursts of anger, arguments, tears, and turmoil. The results of such dysregulation are rarely positive, and days can be lost in the fallout.

Packed with clear definitions, facts and statistics, heartfelt stories, and applicable discussion points, Regulation and Co-Regulation is rooted in the principle that relationships come first - it only takes one safe, committed adult to help a child heal and build resilience through co-regulation.

In this book, you’ll discover:

• an emphasis on diversity and inclusion of neurodivergent students

• the vital link between child stress and academic performance

• how to recognize the often-subtle signs of dysregulation

• the danger of mistaking calm and quiet for healthy regulation

• sound ways to adapt regulation principles to each child’s unique makeup

• the importance of engaging parents, families, and communities

• ...and more!

Tackling this critical aspect of learning head-on, Regulation and Co-Regulation holds out unapologetic hope for healing. As you absorb and apply the wisdom within these pages, get ready: a domino effect will begin when you embrace a new lens of thinking and responding. Everyone in your life - including you - will benefit from the tools you employ to make co-regulation a consistent reality for children.

“The pocket-guide to Co-Regulation!”

—Dr. Mona Delahooke, author of Beyond Behaviors and Brain-Body Parenting

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Ginger Healy, MSW, LCSW, is a clinical social worker with almost 30 years of experience in the field. Ginger has worked as a child abuse investigator, hospital social worker, and school therapist. She spent 15 years as the social service supervisor at an international adoption agency and was able to travel to provide support for orphanages all over the world. This job continues to inform her work on attachment and trauma needs in children. She is currently the director of programs for the Attachment & Trauma Network where she co-anchors the podcast “Regulated and Relational” and speaks across the nation on trauma-informed schools, therapeutic parenting, and community engagement. Ginger is married and has four children who have been her greatest teachers about developmental trauma and special needs. She loves to travel and read.

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