Handspring Institute Webinar
Building Flexibility and Frustration Tolerance Skills in Neurodivergent Students
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What This Webinar Covers
Due to executive functioning differences, neurodivergent children often face challenges with flexibility and frustration tolerance, which can impact their social and academic growth. School-based mental health professionals play a crucial role in offering real-time support and scaffolding meaningful practice to help these students build distress tolerance skills. Grounded in the framework from 'Unstuck and On Target' and other evidence-based interventions, this presentation will provide practical strategies to help students manage big emotions and develop flexible thinking, empowering them to navigate academic and social interactions with greater confidence and resilience.
About the Speaker
Colleen Harker, Ph.D.
Colleen Harker, Ph.D., is a licensed child psychologist based in Philadelphia. Dr. Harker works with children with anxiety, OCD, and disruptive behaviors, and specializes in supporting neurodivergent children and their parents. Dr. Harker obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed her clinical internship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center and her post-doctoral fellowship at the Child and Adolescent OCD, Tic, Trich, and Anxiety Group (COTTAGe) and the Penn Center for Mental Health (PCMH) at the University of Pennsylvania.