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Parenting / Families

Help Me Help You: Role-Play Demonstrations on how to Support Caregivers in Effective Parenting

Workshop 7 - Help Me Help You: Role-play Demonstrations on How to Support Caregivers in Effective Parenting

Saturday, November 16, 2024
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Location: 408/409, Level 4, Downtown Marriott
Earn 3 Credit
Ticketed Session
Keywords: Parenting, Treatment, Adolescents
Level of Familiarity: Moderate
Recommended Readings: Guo, S., & Peris, T. S. (2021). Working with Parents with Anxiety in Family Intervention. Family-Based Intervention for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Core Competencies Approach (pp 225-241). Cambridge.,   Zalewski, M., Maliken, A. C., Lengua, L. J., Martin, C. G., Roos, L. E., & Everett, Y. (2020). Integrating dialectical behavior therapy with child and parent training interventions: A narrative and theoretical review. Clinical psychology: Science and practice.,   Whittingham, K., & Coyne, L. (2019). Acceptance and commitment therapy: the clinician's guide for supporting parents. Academic Press. Recommended Reading,   Filippello, P., Sorrenti, L., & Buzzai, C. (2015). Perceived Parental Psychological Control and Learned Helplessness: The Role of School Self-efficacy. School Mental Health, 7, 298–310.,   Weisz, J.R., & Kazdin, A.E. (Eds.) (2017). Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
Parents play an integral role in the lives of their children and often significantly impact both the trajectory of a child’s mental health and the interventions designed to support it. As the responsibility of parenting brings with it a combination of intense emotions, needs, and dreams for one’s child, parents and children often engage in problematic patterns when managing conflict or stressful situations. When working with youth and families, clinicians have a unique opportunity to help parents learn and adopt skills and interpersonal dynamics that promote long term family and youth well-being. With a heavy emphasis on live role-play demonstrations, this workshop will highlight a number of core strategies to help caregivers more effectively manage challenging parenting situations that clinicians frequently encounter within the families they work with. The presenters will provide insight from a range of cognitive-behavioral therapy perspectives, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy, exposure-based treatment approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Behavior Management. Through a series of role-plays, the presenters will weave in a combination of strategies aimed at supporting parents in building meaningful parent/child relationships while encouraging change. Specific areas of focus will include (1) early treatment work to build motivation and establish a productive therapeutic frame, (2) validating a child’s experience within a conflictual interaction or situation, (3) creating an understanding of parental behavior as shaped by their kids, (4) aligning parental values with effective parenting choices, (5) optimizing a combination of autonomy granting and limit setting, and (6) helping parents let go of unproductive battles. Audience members will have an opportunity to discuss each role play and ask questions. The workshop presenters will then guide audience participants to practice these strategies in small-group role plays work to better hone their understanding of the interventions presented in the workshop.

Outline:
1. Speaker introduction
2. Provide rationale for viewing parenting support as a key element of youth treatment, and subsequent importance of both aligning with parents and helping them actively face common barriers to skills use.
3. Read Case Example to be referenced throughout the workshop
4. Role play 1 on early treatment work and establishing a productive therapeutic frame
a. Speaker debrief
b. Audience discussion and Q&A portion
5. Role play 2 on validating a child’s experience in a conflictual family session
a. Speaker debrief
b. Audience discussion and Q&A portion
6. Role play 3 on helping parents understand role of child behavior in shaping parental choices and aligning parenting values with effective choices.
a. Speaker debrief
b. Audience discussion and Q&A portion
7. Role play 4 on helping parents balance autonomy granting with limit setting while letting go of unproductive battles
a. Speaker debrief
b. Audience discussion and Q&A portion
8. Audience small group role play (facilitated by speakers)
9. Audience/Speaker discussion and final Q&A

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. Describe the utility of early treatment engagement work between clinician and parent in order to improve youth engagement.
  2. Demonstrate effective validation techniques that parents can employ in communicating with their children.
  3. Explain ways in which parents are shaped by youth behavior and impact on parent/child dynamics.
  4. Help parents consider how to proactively incorporate their family values into decisions about parenting skills use.
  5. Provide examples of how to balance support and opportunities for independence in parenting youth with mental health difficulties.
  6. Long-term Goal: Provide a rationale for prioritizing parent-clinician alignment as a means of providing necessary parent focused support and increasing parent willingness to address barriers to skills use.
  7. Long-term Goal: Articulate interactional relationship between parent and child factors, including values, temperament, emotion regulation, etc., and how it influence parent behavior and engagement in treatment