What's Important to Know about the Teen Brain and Emotional Regulation?

Online
Free

This webinar will explore the key components of the teen brain which impact emotional regulation, risk taking, and decision making. Participants will better understand why and how youth professionals should factor those understandings into conversations, leadership roles, and programming with/for teens. 

Setting
  • Teen Engagement
Type
  • Webinar
Category
  • Mental Health
Topic
  • Mental Health
Betsy Stone
Dr. Betsy Stone

Dr. Betsy Stone received her Doctorate in Psychology from Yale University. She is a psychologist and for the last seventeen years has served as an adjunct lecturer at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Her classes include Human Development for Educators, Adolescent Development and Teens In and Out of Crisis. She also teaches a family education class in her synagogue, Temple Sinai of Stamford, for 6th and 7th graders and their parents, and likes to travel and teach about teenagers and their families. Her most recent book is Refuah Shlema.

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Erica Hruby

Erica Hruby, M.A. is a Jewish educator with nearly 30-years of teaching, curriculum writing, and professional development experience in Jewish community, academic, and residential environments. Erica serves as Senior Manager, National Teen Education and Engagement at The Jewish Education Project. She is also the founder of Anchored Parenting, LLC where she serves as a parent educator and coach. Erica has an M.A. from Georgia School of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology with a focus on children and adolescents. She lives on the West Coast of Florida with her high school sweetheart with whom she shares two adult daughters.

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