Mastering the Art of Parent Engagement: Empower Parents to Be the Change Agent in Their Child’s Treatment

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 

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Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.

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Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2023 - January 27, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

 

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.

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Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement

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Canada Credit - Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 380 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 

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US National Boards - Social Workers - National NASW

This live remote program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #886759332-9888) for 6.0 continuing education contact hours in Clinical Social Work.

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US National Boards - Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

 

PESI, Inc.  is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Approved provider # 3322. This Distance-Learning Interactive activity is offered at .625  CEUs Intermediate, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.   Full attendance at this live activity qualifies for 6.25 contact hours.

 

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Speaker

Victoria Grinman, PhD, LCSW Related seminars and products

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Victoria Grinman, PhD, LCSW, is the founder of Permission Slip Parenting™, a groundbreaking approach to guiding parents in connecting to a more fulfilled parenthood journey that supports their joy, confidence and sustained connection and growth with themselves and their child throughout their lifetime. She is an expert in the experience of posttraumatic growth, the parenthood experience, autism and relationships.

Dr. Grinman earned her PhD at Adelphi University and Master of Social Work at Columbia University. She served as a contributing lecturer at Columbia University, Boston College and Adelphi University, and speaks nationally to professionals dedicated to the healthcare arena. Victoria is a trauma-informed and trained yoga and mindfulness instructor, a certified aromatherapist and a dedicated long-time clinician volunteer for Experience Camps, a free one-week grief camp experience for children who have lost a significant person in their life. She nurtures Growing Kind Minds LLC, a private therapy and coaching practice and lives with her sassy yorkie, Vanna Goh Goh, named after Vincent van Gogh. She resides in New York City.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Victoria Grinman maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Hudson Valley Professional Development and New York Therapy Placement Services. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Victoria Grinman is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work.

Additional Info

Program Information

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Evaluate how therapist’s own self-awareness can be used to support parent and caregiver engagement and understanding of their contribution to child outcomes.
2. Analyze trauma from a developmental, psychological, and physiological perspective to understand children’s emotional and developmental needs.
3. Construct effective plans to respond to resistance and challenges when supporting parents and caregivers and children in therapy.
4. Demonstrate how involving parents and caregivers in child therapy will improve child’s treatment goals by engaging parents and caregivers in being models of the kinds of outcomes they want to see (regulating their own nervous systems, teaching them how to speak to their children so they will listen, etc.).
5. Integrate coregulation techniques such as yoga-based exercises/breathing and emotion regulation exercises, to promote more effective parent/caregiver-child interactions.
6. Demonstrate competency in utilizing role play techniques to self-regulate prior to and in sessions with parents.

Outline

• Empower them, inform them, create sustainable change
• Guide parents to be good assessors and solution finders
• Use themselves to support their child - be the best tool (external resource)
• Developing resilience and healing happens in the context of relationships

• Therapist as “influencer” / influencing with integrity
• Teaching parents to know their “why” and intention for the work
• Get parent buy-in to leverage own self-awareness of creating dynamics
• Strategies for teaching parents to be coachable (willing to learn, listen and lead)

• Misconceptions about role and power they have in child’s outcomes
• Disempowered to empowered
• Chaotic and unclear to confident and calm
• Building confidence at every developmental stage
• Parents facing their own challenges –
• Can’t go somewhere with their child they haven’t gone themselves
• What to do when parents think they are always right
• Considering culture and personal family dynamics

• Setting intentions
• Addressing everyone
• Being straightforward and clear
• Containing everyone’s needs/intentions
• Take-aways and wrap-up
• Homework to focus on

• Preparing yourself/nervous system
• Developing own self-awareness and removing blind spots
• What triggers you about parents –
• Hostile, negative, all-knowing, uncoachable, anxious, negative, and more
• Two nervous systems dancing - exercises to do with therapists
• Using your feelings as information
• Letting go of expectations
• Empowering the involved parent to carry forward and self-lead

• Unpacking ways in which parents have influence and ways they don’t
• How parents support the therapy process with their children

• Co-parenting
• When parents remarry-involving new partners in the work

• How to effectively ask for help and build a support network
• Coregulation exercises
• Foster interoception and mindfulness

• Kids inner resources to support themselves
  • Breath, body, and mind
• Parents as child’s resource:
  • Staying regulated
  • Giving child space for big emotions

• The 4 questions you can ask yourself and share with parents that will change their way of being with their kids and help make the best decisions for their child and family

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Educators
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants