Continuing Education for those working with children

Here is a description of an upcoming, on-line continuing education opportunity for those who work with children. You can find out more at: www.fielding.edu

The Parenting Paradox: Why Parents Need More Than Advice
Presenters: Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D. & Laura L. Smith, Ph.D.
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Parent training provides the most cost-effective, as well as efficacious, means for treating the broadest swath of children’s emotional and behavioral problems. We will describe a program for training parents to intervene with their children’s problems. In order to understand the full context of this program, we will briefly overview a number of models of child psychopathology. In addition, we will review current treatment approaches to the major categories of child psychopathology and their relative effectiveness. You will see that parent training stands out as a superior approach among the various treatment options.

However, most parenting programs fail to deal with impediments to good outcomes. Specifically, parents’ emotional issues sabotage treatment efforts. We will show how a unique application of Cognitive therapy with an emphasis on schemas can be employed to address this common difficulty.

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