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The PersonBrain™ Model is a NeuroRelational training program designed to empower helping adults with critical therapeutic skills needed to transform troubled children and youth.
Meredith White-McMahon, Ed.D. is a veteran educator of troubled and troubling children and youth. She has been teaching for 33 years at all levels K-12 as well as supervising University Masters-level school counselor practicums. She currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Dr. White-McMahon has contributed to the development of numerous scientific writings and textbooks currently used in the university setting. In 2011 she co-authored The Hopeful Brain: Relational Repair for Disconnected Children and Youth which incorporates brain-based strategies that are practical, effective and supportive of youth. Her experience as an educator has earned her wide respect for innovative and positive supports in the transformation of challenging youth.
A certified Response Abilities Pathways (RAP) trainer for Reclaiming Youth International, a Senior Trainer of The PersonBrain Model™ and a Senior LSCI Trainer for the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute, Dr. White-McMahon also provides training and consultation services in crisis intervention and relational areas such as attachment, trauma, attention, depression, anxiety, and oppositional-defiance.
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The Many Faces of Trauma: Understanding Abused Children
Healing Children's Trauma: How Parents, Caregivers and Teachers Can Help
The Hopeful Brain: Relational Repair for Disconnected Children and Youth
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preText June, 2011)
Authors: Dr. Meredith White-McMahon, Paul Baker
This book explores the importance of using strength-based interventions and creating structured opportunities to “reimburse” troubled children and youth with positive experiences that teach and transform. A comprehensive brain-compatible approach to therapeutic transformation is presented that incorporates critical aspects that impact brain development.
What You See is Not What you Get
Reclaiming Children and Youth Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, (May 2010)
Author: Dr. Meredith White-McMahon
When upset, Peter overreacts, dumping verbal hostility on everyone, even those trying to help. Peter’s attempt to see the principal—who was out of the office—led to an emotionally explosive crisis. In this LSCI, staff calmly tried to help Peter clarify distorted reality. But patient questioning raised a Red Flag: the real reason for his distress was fear of being kicked out of his home, which triggered violent and suicidal thoughts.
