TPP 230: Janine Halloran of Coping Skills for Kids on the Power of Coping Skills to Regulate Emotion
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest on this episode?
All feelings are okay. It is okay for you to be furious. What you do with that fury matters. You have to figure out how to safely and in a healthy way express it. But it's okay to feel any feeling. It's okay to be sad. It's okay to be anxious. But what do you do with that when it happens? And how can you show it in a safe and healthy way?
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and my guest this week is author, speaker, and licensed mental health counselor, Janine Halloran, for a conversation about coping skills for kids. Janine is the author of the Coping Skills for Kids workbook, the new Coping Skills for Teens workbook, and she's also the host of the Calm and Connected podcast, all amazing resources, which I encourage you to check out. As a counselor working primarily with children and adolescents for the past 20 years, Janine knows the value of learning healthy coping skills early in life and that children who are able to cope with big emotions in healthy ways will be more resilient and manage their stress better as adults.
And she also knows how real it can get when it comes to teaching kids to deal with emotions and that theory and practice can sometimes feel worlds apart. Hence her coping skills workbooks. And not to mention, Janine has a lot of free resources on her website. In our conversation, Janine walks us through the different types of coping skills, how to identify them and gives us her best practices for supporting our kids and teens and tapping into their coping powers. This is such a timely conversation. Who couldn't use more coping skills these days, not only our kids, but for us as well. Thanks so much. And now here is my conversation with Janine. Hey, Janine, welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much for having me, Debbie.
I think this conversation is perfect timing because we're going to be really doing a deep dive into coping skills, which is your area of expertise. It's actually a topic we have probably skirted around, but we've never dedicated an episode to this. I'm really excited to get into all of it with you. But I would love, before we do that, I've read your more official bio, but can you take a few minutes and tell us a little bit about your story and how you got into doing this work and maybe your personal why for doing this work?
Absolutely. So I'm trained as a licensed mental health counselor, and I've been working with children and families for 20 years. I actually, you know, it's really interesting how I came to start coping skills for kids. But I'll just start with why I became a therapist, because I think that's a kind of an interesting thing. When I was a teenager, I had a therapist and they were such an instrumental part of my life, helping me figure out what strategies I could use, what coping skills I could use, how to manage different relationships, friendships, family, all that stuff. And I found that relationship to be so rewarding and so helpful. I remember being in therapy so clearly one day and saying, I want to do this with my life.
So that is why I started really dedicating my life to becoming a therapist. Once I realized what I wanted to do, then I just started doing it. I started looking at schools and colleges and grad school, and then it sort of started from there. When I was in grad school, something that I realized as we were talking and going through all the classes, they would talk about everybody needs to use their coping skills. You need to teach your clients coping skills. And they would say the same three coping skills. And I was like, that's not going to work for everybody, y'all. And so let's come up with some different ways of strategies for kids that will work. And I worked in schools for a very long time. I worked in substantially separate schools.
I worked in point four schools. So schools where kids were not placed in their typical school setting. So they were having some really big emotions, showing a lot of behaviors and things like that.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest on this episode?
0:00–8:19
2
How did Janine Halloran become a therapist and what inspired her to create coping‑skills workbooks?
8:19–24:22
3
How does Janine define a coping skill and why are healthy vs. unhealthy strategies important?
24:22–35:55
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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