Supporting Children's Healing: Building Connections and Guiding Behavior

Description

The quality of parent-child attachments is central to children's mental health. Parents are the medicine that can remediate children's behavioral issues, attention difficulties, non-compliance, aggression, and trauma. Providers who work with young people without engaging their parents are missing an opportunity to augment children's healing. Learn how to help parents use attention, communication, and structure to build stronger parent-child relationships and support children's wellbeing.

In collaboration with

UNC/AHEC Course - UNC Chapel Hill Dept. of Social Work

This presenter is being supported through a partnership between UNC-CH, School of Social Work and the NC AHEC Program.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors, Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialists, Peer Support Specialists, and others who are interested in this topic

Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Explain the importance of attention, communication, and structure in caregiver-child/teen relationships
• List activities that can be implemented in sessions or given to families as homework to strengthen connections and help parents guide behavior
• Outline the ways trauma and culture play into children's and families' needs

Faculty

• Rachel A. Galanter, MPH