VIMEO: Explaining the Brain to Children and Adolescents

Explaining the Brain to Children and Adolescents. 

Dr. Allison Sampson Jackson draws from Dr. Dan Siegel, the Hawn Foundation, Joseph LeDoux and many others who have helped to understand the importance of knowing and sharing with others the ways in which the “upstairs” and “downstairs” brain impact our ability to learn and change behavior.

This video combines the learning from these 3 sources to demonstrate in “layman’s” terms how to help ourselves, teens, and young children understand their upstairs and downstairs brains and what happens when we experience a threat.

Dr. Jackson also highlights how calming strategies, such as mindfulness, impact the different parts of the brain