Cognitive-Based Integrative (CBI) Programs
Cognitive-Based Integrative (CBI) Programs include four independent classroom/activity-based classes. Three different classes provide children, teens and adults with the necessary skills to become empowered to practice healthy behaviors and make positive choices in life. The forth class helps professionals in their job capacity. An additional three-day retreat is also available to improve successful teens to prepare them for collage and successful relationships.
Ultimately CBI Programs help to create healthier families and successful professionals that result in healthier workplace and communities. The CBI programs:
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Early research in the development of the Neuroscience-Based Models applied to the CBI Programs established a strong neurodevelopmental association between exposure to child abuse and neglect and lifetime exposure to abuse, and illness. It began with the identification of biomarkers linking atrophy of the hippocampus among Alzheimer's Disease patients to early childhood and lifetime exposure to traumas (as presented at the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society Conference (PNIRS), Denver, Colorado (2005) and at the BIT Annual Tetra-Congress of MolMed-2010 Conference, Shanghai, China). While these findings made this link in gerontology, this provided a foundation to study how both short and long term stressors affect the developing brain. In addition when a child is raised in a specific environment the brain adapts accordingly to survive in what it is exposed to. Such early childhood traumas and exposure to family dysfunction can also increase risky behavior during adolescence, as identified in the Neuroscience-Based Models. The CBI Programs helps to address those who have been exposed to trauma by applying these Neuroscience-Based Models to help modify behavior to reduce risky behavior. The CBI Programs also help to address the next steps among victims identified in the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. The ACE Study is an excellent study from an epidemiological perspective. Where the CBI Programs provide a benefit to the ACE Study, is applying neuroscience at the secondary and primary levels of prevention in it's ability to empower behavior change and reduce adolescent risk behavior.
Self-Motivated Transformational Choice Model (SM-TCM): The SM-TCM includes a combination of the NPPM, Emotional Re-activity Change Model (ERCM) described below, Health Belief Model and the Transtheoretical Model to help provide the necessary skills to move an individual through each stage of behavior change so one can more effectively achieve their personal goals. The SM-TCM helps individuals to understand how their choices in life can be influenced and provides the necessary skills to help modify these behaviors.
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Emotional Re-activity Change Model (ERCM): The ERCM is a self-administered tool to help modify how the brain responds in situations, to help the individual maintain control and learn how to respond rather than to react. The ERCM is applied after the participant has obtained the skills from the Self-Motivated Transformational Choice Model (SM-TCM). The ERCM promotes sustainable behavior changes through neuroplasticity.
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The CBI programs incorporate cognitive neuroscience, occupational therapy, and public health approaches to provide skills that empower individuals and families to reduce exposure to injury risk and promote healthy lifestyles. CBI programs are classes that can be hospital-based, judicial, school/community and faith-based youth diversion programs. It has also been incorporated to assist professionals in their job performance (leadership capacity, law enforcement, teachers, child care professionals, social workers, clergy, etc.).
1. Parent Youth Development
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Developed for parents of elementary-aged children. It applies interactive methods of the NPPM that activate neurodevelopmental protective pathways demonstrated to reduce adolescent risk behavior at the primary level and promotes healthy lifestyles for both the parent and child.
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2. Parent & Teen Empowerment
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Designed for parents of middle and high-school aged children. Because these children are already in adolescence while it applies part of the NPPM, its focus is on the SM-TCM and the ERCM, that is shown to build neurodevelopmental protective pathways that promote healthy risk taking behavior, ability to make healthy personal choices and healthy lifestyles in both the parent and the teen.
The Parent-Teen Empowerment program can be adapted for specific school curricula, activities to church groups that can include a 4-6 week one-hour program or a 3-day retreat. |
3. Empowered Youth Achievement
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Developed for parents and youth ages 17 and younger who are at the early stage of risk taking behaviors who have violated California Vehicle Code and/or California Penal Code. It applies part of the NPPM and the SM-TCM, as well as the ERCM, to help the child and parent identify healthy choices in their life that they desire and strengthens neurodevelopmental protective pathways to promote healthy lifestyles in both the parent and the teen.
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4. Strategic Leadership for Professionals
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Developed for professionals that provides them with the necessary skills to identify and overcome neurodevelopmental barriers to help them become a more effective leader in their carrier and improve relationships in their life. It applies. It includes and interactive approach of the SM-TCM, as well as the ERCM which will provide them with practical skills to help regulate emotions, overcome challenges and ability to acheive goals.
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Questions email CBI@PublicHealthBehaviorSolutions.com