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Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents (A109)


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Faculty:
Ron Taffel, Ph.D.
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 05, 2004
Product Code:
NPC095512
Media Type:
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Description

Session 1 description:

You’ll begin by learning about assessment strategies and tools to use with young clients and their families

Outline Session 1:

  • Diagnostic Tools and Strategies
  • Focusing assessment to obtain relevant information
  • How to use enactments and task assignments as diagnostic tools
  • Strategies to identify developmental and psychiatric problems.

Session 2 description:

Learn to identify temperamental styles and how to work effectively with each

Outline Session 2:

  • Temperamental Styles
  • Characteristics of different temperamental styles
  • Concrete strategies to deal with each temperamental style
  • Helping parents who feel misunderstood, blamed, and hopeless

Session 3 description:

Find out why second families are so important and how you can support and encourage the validity of the Second Family your clients have identified

Outline Session 3:

  • Roots and indicators of disconnection between adolescents and their family
  • Concept of the Second Family
  • Strategies to reconnect family relationships

Session 4 description:

Discover how to work with families of your clients to support, extend, and reinforce the work you do in the consulting room.

Outline Session 4:

  • Self-Esteem, Resilience, and a United Front
  • Strategies to nurture self-esteem in children and adolescents
  • Strategies to nurture resilience in children and adolescents
  • Importance of parental unity
  • Concrete strategies to help parents create a united front in the family

Objectives:

1. Describe clinical assessment procedures that quickly focus on relevant information about the child and family
2. Describe procedures that help to identify characteristics of temperament, and misinterpretations of kid's behavior based on temperament
3. Describe the importance of the "second family" to disconnected adolescents

4. List 5 concrete strategies to help parents provide leadership and connect with their children
 

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state 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 cepesi@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.  

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Counselors

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 4.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 4.0 () continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. 


Psychologists

Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study activity consists of 4.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 4.0 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state 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.



Faculty

Ron Taffel, Ph.D. Related seminars and products


Ron Taffel, Ph.D., conducts workshops across the country on the problems facing kids and their families today. He's the author of Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents; Nurturing Good Children Now; and The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family.


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