Managing Big Feelings: You and Your Child’s
Sandy Wolkoff, LCSW-R
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Parenting The Spirited Child: What is Temperament
and Why Do Parents Need to Know About It? (Parent Coffee Series)
Doreen Miller, M.A., M.B.A.
March 21, 2012
Managing Big Feelings: You and Your Child’s
Marcy Safyer, MSW, LCSW-R
April 14, 2011
Potty Training Boot Camp: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Toilet Training
November 4, 2010
Helping your child through the toilet-training process may be challenging as a parent. When it comes to this important developmental stage, every child is unique. Some are "ready" earlier than others, and not all children respond to the same approach. Success at toilet training leaves both parents and children with that "I can do it" feeling that will be a great foundation for future accomplishments.
Understanding and Handling Big Feelings: Yours and Your Child’s
with Marcy Safyer, M.S.W., LCSW-R
May 26, 2010
Young children can get overwhelmed by the intensity of their
emotions, such as anger, fear and frustration. They do not yet have the
emotional capacity or language to handle big feelings all of the time,
nor do they have the social skills to solve problems when they are upset.
Sometimes kids go off the deep end and grown-ups dive in right after;
creating lots of upset, but little resolution. Learn what pushes your
buttons so that you can find ways to solve problems with your children
more effectively. Become better able to identify teachable moments,
opportunities to help your child build self discipline,
and manage their big feelings
View flyer for more info (PDF 127KB)
Parenting the Spirited Child: What Is Temperament and Why Do Parents Need to Know About It?
April 21, 28, and May 5
In this 3 session program, parents of 2-to-5 year olds, learned how to:
- Identify your child's temperament profile
- Implement positive parenting strategies that work,
- Gain cooperation from your child and avoid daily battles
- Restore harmony to the household and enjoy your child.
Art Activities:
Strengthening Relationships While Supporting Preschoolers Development
Eileen Leibman, M.A.
March 24, 2010
Spending quality time together is important for every parent-child relationship.
Art experiences at home can serve to provide joyful opportunities to explore,
discover and create together.
 (PDF 142KB)
Parenting the Challenging Child: What is Temperament and Why Do Parents Need to Know About It?
Doreen Miller, M.A., M.B.A.
February 24, 2010
Some temperament traits make parenting a
challenge and can make daily life with your child stressful, full of conflict
and disruptive for the whole family. Parents often feel frustrated and
helpless. But family life doesn't have to be this way.
(PDF 142KB)
All About the Potty
September 23, 2009
Learn how to assess your child’s readiness to begin toilet training, hear about helpful techniques and tips for success. Learn how to cope with common pitfalls and setbacks and handle difficulties such as constipation and stool withholding.
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The Importance of Summer Time Fun
for
Young Children
Alicia Martinez, M.A.
June 4, 2009
Your child’s play is more that just play; it’s how they begin to understand the world around them and is essential to brain development.
Storytime Pajama Party
Suzy Lederer, Ph.D.
May 14, 2009
Parents had the opportunity to discuss with Dr. Lederer how to read to your child in a way that encourages emergent literacy skills, bonding between you and your child, and also supports your child’s budding imagination.
Basic First Aid
Presented by the American Red Cross
April 30, 2009
Every caregiver's concern is about the well-being and safety of their children. This informative workshop on basic first aid for your child covered how to prevent as well as intervene with choking, cuts and wounds, as well as any other basic first aid questions.
Raising a Thinking Child
Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.
September 24, 2008
Dr. Shure is an esteemed researcher, developmental psychologist, best-selling author, and developer of the Raising A Thinking Child program, which provides steps that parents can follow to teach their young children to solve problems and resolve everyday conflicts, increase their empathy, decrease aggressive and shy behavior, and develop better social relationships.
The Gift of Fatherhood
Jonathan Diamond, Ph.D.
June 5, 2008
This generation of men is giving to their children more than they received from their own fathers. Dr. Diamond believes that men could use some help, something to guide and sustain them through both the ordeals and joys of parenthood.
What is Reflective Parenting and How Can it Help My Child?
John Grienenberger, Ph.D.
May 8, 2008
It is a parent's capacity for reflective functioning that allows children to develop their own ability to be self observing. With parents as guides, children make links between feelings, thoughts and behavior.
Managing Big Feelings: Tips for Parents and Children
Sandy Wolkoff, M.S.W.
April 10, 2008
Sometimes kids go off the deep end and grown-ups dive in right after, creating lots of upset, but little resolution. Learn to solve problems with your children more effectively by knowing what pushes your buttons.
Shopping, Cooking and Eating: An Adventure for You and Your Preschooler
Robert Dell Amore, M.D.
March 13, 2008
Sometimes kids go off the deep end and grown-ups dive in right after, creating lots of upset, but little resolution. Learn to solve problems with your children more effectively by knowing what pushes your buttons.
Ouch! My Sock Hurts Part II: Strategies for Intervention
Marie Anzalone, Sc. D.,OTR, FAOTA
June 7, 2012
Strategies to help parents and other professionals understand sensory processing disorders were discussed and illustrated with case studies.
Play Therapy with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Loss
Nancy Boyd Webb, D.S.W., LICSW, RPT-S
April 27, 2012
This workshop presented a number of play therapy methods useful in helping traumatized and bereaved children express and process their feelings of grief.
Shelter from the Storm: Effective Interventions with Children Affected by Domestic Violence
Presented by Betsy McAlister Groves, M.S.W.
Friday, March 2, 2012
This workshop explored the effects of how young children are affected by domestic violence. Particular attention given to the effects of traumatic exposure to domestic violence on the parent-child relationship, and the developmental vulnerabilities of very young children.
Foundations for the Future: Understanding Development:
The DIR/Floortime Model
Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
February 2, 2012
Through lecture, discussion and the use of video, clinicians and parents learn skills related to using affect to engage each child's natural interests and inclinations, assessing emotional development through the symbols children use in play, examining developmental anxieties and factors "hidden from sight", and learn the principles of development essential for education and parenting.
5th Annual Master Seminar
Early Experience, Child Maltreatment, Trauma & the Neurosequential Model for Assessment and Treatment
Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
November 3, 2011
The focus of the Neurosequential Approach is on therapeutic activities that can diminish the fearful nature of a child's experience by providing consistency, familiarity, nurturance, predictability and return a sense of control to the child. Illustrative case examples will be used to clarify concepts.
Language as an Organizer of Self: Typical and Vulnerable Trajectories
Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D. and Sima Gerber, Ph.D., C.C.C.
May 19, 2011
The focus will be on the first three years of life with an emphasis on the spawning of self in the context of prelinguisitic features such as attunement and intersubjectivity, intent and meaning, gesture and affect within a relational system.
Minding the Baby: Reflection and Transformation in the Parent-Child Relationship
Arietta Slade, Ph.D.
April 7, 2011
This workshop focused on how to help parents of young children develop their capacity to keep their baby in mind.
Story, Play, and Puppetry: Creating Connections for Enhancing Curriculum and Consultation in Early Childhood
Loretta Wieczner, M.S., C.C.C./S.L.P.
February 4, 2011
This workshop focused on linking the concepts of story, play and puppetry in a comprehensive and practical manner. Emphasis on the development of pro-social behavior and emotional regulation, as well as enrichment of the early childhood curriculum.
Ouch! My Sock Hurts: Sensory Integration and Self-Regulation in Infants and Young Children
Marie Anzalone, Sc. D.
March 11, 2011
Intervention principles with follow-up strategies and activities to assist children with different profiles will be described. Ways to help parents understand and manage their child’s unique sensory requirements within the context of their relationships, as well as strategies to help parents (and other professionals) understand sensory processing disorders.
4th Annual Master Seminar
Trauma through the Eyes of a Young Child:
Understanding and Helping Children and Families Joy Osofsky, Ph.D.
October 22, 2010
The effects of traumatic experiences on the emotional and behavioral development of children and their caregivers will be the focus of this training. Explore early relationships and environments and teach the recognition of symptoms and responses in children who have experienced trauma.
The High-Maintenance Child, Self-Regulation,
and Parenting: The Temperament
Sean C. McDevitt, Ph.D.
May 14, 2010
Assessment techniques that facilitate the development of temperament profiles, as well as procedures for determining the effect of these characteristics on client functioning. A framework for distinguishing temperament from ADHD, emotional and behavioral disorders.
Translating Advances in Attachment Research
into Useful Tools for Assessment
and
Treatment in Infancy and Early Childhood
Kate Rosenblum, Ph.D.; Ann M. Stacks, Ph.D.;
Lisa Garcia, M.S.W.
March 5, 2010
Current research has identified the important facets of "parental sensitivity" as parental reflective functioning, insightfulness, and a parent's representation of their child. The ability to accurately understand and assess these qualities is key for clinicians in order to intervene in the most effective ways when needed.
Trauma in Infancy and Early Childhood: Developmental Risk and Intervention Strategies
Patricia Van Horn, J.D., Ph.D.
April 23, 2010
The emphasis will be on how witnessing violence places children's attachments at risk and how it creates extra challenges for the developmental task of learning self-regulation, especially emotional modulation and regulation.
When Young Children Need Help:
Consultation with Parents and Teachers; Collaborative Intervention with
Three-to-Seven-Year-Olds
Debra Hirschland, M.S.W.
February 4, 2010
When young children are showing signs of difficulty, parents, childcare providers, and teachers often approach practitioners for guidance on how to best support healthy development.
Mindsight and Integration: The Heart of Parenting and the Core of Healing Trauma
Dan Siegel, M.D.
October 15, 2009
Teaching parents and therapists about the nature of neural integration affords a powerful avenue to connect research and practice with the important respect for the subjective lives of adults and children alike.
Making Sense of the Loss: Understanding and Working with Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum
Michael Mancusi, Marianne Fougere, Dorothea Ianuzzi
June 5, 2009
This training focused on parent's reactions to learning that their child has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The instructors examined a wide range of issues including the meaning of the loss and the mourning process for parents.
Postpartum Depression: Essential Knowledge for Assessment and Treatment
Karen Kleiman, M.S.W.
May 1, 2009
Instructor Karen Kleiman designed this course on Post Partum Depression (PPD) to be an intensive learning experience for clinicians.
Parenting Young Children Whose Lives Intersect with the Child Welfare System: What Children Need
Susan Chinitz, Ph.D.
February 5, 2009
When the early experiences of children include neglect, abuse, or exposure to violence they experience a multitude of biological, developmental and social-emotional vulnerabilities.
Secure Base Behavior: The Developing Parent-Child Relationships and the Circle of Security Protocol
Bob Marvin, Ph.D.
December 11, 2008
This workshop focused on the development of parent-child relationships, children’s attachments, and intervening in those attachments, during the infant, toddler, preschool, and early school years.
Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Young Children: The Critical Influence of Early Interaction
Edward Z. Tronick, Ph.D.
October 17, 2008
Dr. Tronick discussed his influential research and writings, and presented his Mutual Regulation Model and the “Still Face Paradigm,” which has revolutionized the field’s understanding of infant emotional capacities.
Changing the World, One Diaper at a Time: A Look at Fatherhood
Jonathan Diamond, Ph.D.
June 6, 2008
This workshop examined the changing role of fatherhood and how professionals can help the fathers and mothers they see in their practices change with it.
Parental Reflective Functioning and Clinical Practice:
A New Approach to Working With Parents and Their Young Children
John F. Grienenberger, Ph.D.
May 9, 2008
The workshop provided participants with a new way to work with the central issues in parent-child relationships and a method that can be utilized to help parents think about their children in a more reflective way.
An Overview of Attachment for Clinical Practice
Morris N. Eagle, Ph.D.
April 9, 2008
The workshop focused on attachment theory as a framework for clinical assessment and intervention as well as the clinical implications of attachment theory and research for work with infant-mother dads, as well as adults and couples.
Helping Parents Help Their Young Children Through Trauma
Cynthia Monahon, Psy.D.
November 9, 2007
The workshop reviewed research regarding various exposures to trauma for young children, developmental differences in symptomatology, and factors associated with severity of traumatic impact.
Celebrate Families and Children
October 19, 2007
- Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
"Touchpoints in Development: A Model for Early Intervention"
- Dr. Joshua Sparrow, M.D.
"Infant and Toddler Emotional Competence: The Basis of Learning from the Beginning of Life"
Parent Community Event: Stresses and Supports for Today's Families
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
October 18, 2007
View T. Berry Brazelton's Bio
Reception
Introducing Laura M. Ludlam, Director of the Child Activity Center & Marcy Safyer, Director of the Institute for Parenting
June 7, 2007
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Attachment, Mastery, Interdependence
The Parenting Process Model in Work with Infants, Toddlers, Young Children, and their Families
May 17, 2007
This workshop explored the processes and outcomes of parenting and their implications for working with young children and their families.
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