Course Description

Pivotal research into adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) provides clarity that potentially traumatic experiences in childhood have profound impact on lifelong potential, mental and physical health and overall wellbeing. Early childhood home visitation can promote prevention and resiliency via interventions directed at decreasing harsh parenting and maltreatment risk, improving caregiver sensitivity, and improving caregiver reflective functioning.
However, caregivers with young children frequently present within community mental health settings for a variety of presenting concerns, often not directly related to their young child's well-being. This training is targeted at generalist therapy providers within community mental health centers. It is intended to provide foundational information and skills to open a dialogue with caregivers about parenting a young child; and to show how these interventions can run parallel to address the concerns that bring them into services, and provide both individual and family healing.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will describe how to conceptualize an individuals 'presenting concerns' through the lens of inter-generational trauma.

2. Participants will explain 2-4 strategies to assist them in talking with caregivers about their experiences with parenting a young child.

3. Participants will identify 2-4 strategies to promote parental protective processes that can buffer young children from intergenerational risk, and support caregiver healing.

Details

Virtual | 2 hours

Date/Time

Monday, December 2nd, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location

A Zoom Registration Link will be provided at the end of checkout. Please ensure that after purchasing, you register for the Zoom course to receive the link to your live course.

Guest Speaker

Dr. Nicole Wolf (she/her) earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Tennessee in 2010. She completed a child/adolescent-focused APA-accredited Predoctoral internship at Allendale Association in Lake VIlla, IL, and an APA-accredited Postdoctoral Residency at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Ct. Dr. Wolf provides therapy and psychological assessment for children, adolescents, adults, and families at the Southwest Behavioral and Health Services Outpatient Clinic in Flagstaff, AZ. She is specialized in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Parent-Child Psychotherapy. Her interests include multicultural therapy, therapeutic assessment, play therapy, and trauma-informed care. She has supervised an intensive in-home program for families with young children, and has worked as the training director of two APA-accredited Psychology Internship programs in Minnesota, both embedded within nonprofit, community mental health outpatient centers; Hamm Clinic, specializing in adults, and Washburn Center for Children, specializing in work with children and families. She is passionate about her work as a therapist with families with young children, and learning and growing through new experiences and endeavors.

Participants who complete this course will earn 2 APA & NBCC Continuing Education Credit Hours