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9 Fridays Weekly from 9:00-11am ET: November 8, 2024- January 17, 2025 18 CEs | Live On Zoom Program Dates: November 8, 15, 22, 2024; December 6, 13, 20, 2024; January 3, 10, 17, 2025 Cost of Program: Free for NEAFAST Members; $80 for nonmembers. Become an NEAFAST Member! Family Therapy with Young Children Study Group: Focus on Parenting is a weekly, 18 CE event that will meet in nine two hour segments. This group will be structured as a study group and as such will look at approaches to supporting families who have a young child struggling to grow up. The struggle could be related to family members having a neurological issue (ADHD, sensory integration and regulation challenges, spectrum disorder), the structure of the family (parents not able to be a team, leadership problems, boundary issues) or child behavioral and relationship problems. Topics include:
This course will center around the book Children: The Challenge by Rudolf Dreikurs, with additional insight from The Greenspan Floortime Approach by Stanley Greenspan and his ideas about how a child's hard wiring interacts with the family (social) environment. The course will use video as an educational platform: specifically, from Supernanny with Jo Frost where she introduces us to families and then demonstrates various parenting methods to get the parents back in charge, and promote a satisfying and calm family atmosphere. The course will also use case consultation, where study group participations can present a family they are working with. Continuing education units will be distributed to those who attend all nine sessions. If folks need to miss one session, they will be asked to write 2-3 page summary about the content from Children: The Challenge and how they plan on implementing this information with an identified family. At the conclusion of this program, participants will be better able to: Learning Objective 1: Describe the 4 main styles of child rearing (Authoritarian, Permissive, Attachment, and Democratic) and how to help parents decide on a style based on the advantages and disadvantages of each one. Learning Objective 2: Teach techniques of Democratic Parenting such as encouragement, logical and natural consequences to parents, teachers, and other caregivers using family therapy and parent education methods. Learning Objective 3: Engage more effectively with parents around contracting with parents, using a problem list, using a family intake meeting, promoting leadership and teamwork, and teaching and coaching parents in parenting techniques.
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Howard C. Wolfe, MA, LMFT was trained as a Family Sociologist before completing two marriage and family therapy programs, one at Penn State (MA) in Human Development and one at The Minnesota State University (PhD program) in Home Economics. He has been practicing for many years in a variety of settings including street work with youth, mental health clinics (as a clinician, supervisor, and director), and in private practice. He has directed two successful Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Substance Abuse Prevention Grants. His work is split between providing training and consultation on child guidance and substance abuse prevention and treatment for youth, and a private practice in Marriage and Family Therapy in Arlington, MA. His career is dedicated to helping children grow up and understanding the things that keep them from growing up. He believes that the Family Systems approach can play an important and unique role by promoting healthy parenting and families through couple and family therapy and parent education. Visit his website www.wolfe411.org. Kelly Garcia, LMFT completed her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Couples and Family Therapy at William James College. She began training as a therapist first at an adolescent partial hospitalization in Lowell, and next at a community clinic and school in Lynnfield. Since graduation, she has provided individual, group, couples and family therapy for children, teens, families, and adults. She has worked in a residential home for children, in a community-based and outpatient-counseling center, and currently in private practice. This activity is pending certification by the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy (NEAFAST) on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LMFT professional continuing education. Application for social work continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at [email protected] the status of social work CE accreditation This activity can be retroactively approved for CEs for Massachusetts LMHCs. Learn more at https://www.mamhca.org/page-18363. Please note: It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. Cancellation Policy: There will be no refunds. If you miss more than 1 class, you will have to make up the class to earn CEs. Please contact your instructor for further details. |
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