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The Parent Playbook for Child Therapists

Transform Uninvolved and Defensive Parents into Active Partners in Healing
Speaker:
Dafna Lender, LCSW
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC150991
Brochure Code:
PWZ96449
Media Type:
Live Webinar
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Description

When Parents Take an Active Role, Kids Have Better Outcomes

This Program Shows You How to Make it Actually Happen

  • Improve your work with parents from the first phone call
  • Get solutions to resistance, inconsistency and other common issues
  • Understand parents’ attachment wounds that create obstacles to change
  • Help parents focus on their own regulation and self-compassion
  • Printable scripts, metaphors, and workbook included

 

What’s the most powerful intervention in a child’s treatment? The parents.

But let’s face it. Getting them involved is easy to say, not so easy to do.

Parents are overwhelmed. Unsure. Don’t want to face their own pain. Feel judged.

So they pull back hoping that if they just drive their child to your office, you can “fix” them.

That’s why we created this training with family therapy expert and best-selling author Dafna Lender, LCSW.

Dafna’s spent decades getting parents to be active partners in healing – without shame, blame, or power struggles.

Now, in just one day she’ll teach you the skills and tools you need to build and maintain strong parent therapist relationships that make your work far more impactful.

With step-by-step instruction and a downloadable workbook full of scripts, Dafna will show you:

  • How often to meet parents and what to share
  • Ways to engage parents who don’t answer calls or emails
  • How to respond to “I was brought up this way” and other unhelpful attitudes
  • Her best tips on confronting parental inconsistency
  • How to address parents shame and attachment issues contributing to the problem
  • Clinical solutions to manage chaos, shut-downs, arguments and more

Register now and leave with the skills, tools and confidence to integrate parents into your work for transformative outcomes.

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Dafna Lender, LCSW's Profile

Dafna Lender, LCSW Related seminars and products

The Theraplay Institute

Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 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. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.


Webcast Schedule

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. List 3 solutions for obstacles to parent engagement and participation.
  2. Identify 2 cultural factors that may be underlying parent defensiveness.
  3. List 3 possible reasons that lie beneath a parent’s defensive statement.
  4. Examine the three parenting types and the types of supports they need.
  5. Determine the significance of parents own attachment style on child rearing attitudes.
  6. List 2 techniques for managing a parent’s dysregulation and developing parent self-reflection skills.

Outline

First Contacts Do’s and Don’ts:

The Keys to Making Parents Feel Empowered, Respected and Part of the Process

  • How to get parents to meet with you, even if they say they’re busy or frequent “no-shows”
  • How to engage the absent/estranged parent who doesn’t answer email
  • First meeting with parents: setting the stage for future success
  • Research, risks and limitations

Frequency and Content of Parent Contact and Involvement

  • How often should you meet with parents and in what format?
  • Ethical considerations for sharing child information in parent sessions
  • Helping parents with behavior management
  • Effective, culturally sensitive, attachment-focused parenting techniques

Stuck Parental Attitudes and How to Respond to Statements Like …

  • I’m the adult and she just needs to listen
  • I was brought up this way and I turned out just fine
  • The real world isn’t going to baby him
  • All this play stuff is just a waste of my time and money
  • I tried your behavior strategy at home and it didn’t work

Helping Parents Hold Boundaries

  • Gently confront parents who want better behavior but can’t consistently hold boundaries
  • Addressing parents’ shame and guilt about their own contribution to the problem
  • How to confront parents who are inconstant in their messages and behavior

Assess, Prepare for and Conduct Parent-Child Joint Sessions

  • Decide when the time is right for conducting child-parent joint sessions
  • Timing, subject matter, who to include
  • Explain to the parents what to expect in a child-parent session
  • Address your own fears as a clinician about conducting family sessions
  • Conduct a parent-child session
  • Handling chaos, shut-down, arguments and more

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Psychotherapists
  • School Counselors
  • School Social Workers
  • School Psychologists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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