All About the Toilet
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.
The Importance of Summer Time Fun
for
Young Children
Alicia Martinez, M.A., L.S.
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. At this event, parents learned about early childhood development and the skills learned through summertime play. They developed fun family ideas to appeal to different age groups.
Parent Coffee Series with Q & A–
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.
Dr. Suzy Lederer is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Adelphi University
Parent Coffee Series: 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.
Parent Coffee Series: 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.
Parent Coffee Series with Q & A–
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.
Parent Coffee Series with Q & A–
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.
Parent Coffee Series with Q & A–
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.
Parent Coffee Series with Q & A–
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.
Advanced Certificate Program in Parent Education 2008–2009
October 1, 2008–June 10, 2009
The Advanced Certificate Program in Parent Education is an intensive training program designed for the experienced parent educator and/or clinician who is working with parents. Its goal is to promote a deepened understanding of the theories, values, and principles that inform this work. Participants build a solid foundation of knowledge regarding the development of families along a variety of continuum. Development is studied from infancy through adolescence.
Making Sense of the Loss: Understanding and Working with Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum
Michael Mancusi, LICSW; Marianne Fougere, LICSW; Dorothea Ianuzzi, LICSW
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. Participants learned about many aspects of the parent's ongoing struggles with disappointment, hope and guilt as well as their process of mobilization. Challenges to finding the right support network or choosing appropriate interventions due to the broad spectrum of the disorder were identified; along with the importance of caregiver self care.
Postpartum Depression: Essential Knowledge for Assessment and Treatment
Karen Kleiman, M.S.W., L.S.W.
May 1, 2009
Instructor Karen Kleiman, MSW designed this "Crash Course" on Post Partum Depression (PPD) to be an intensive learning experience for clinicians. Her training offers essential knowledge clinicians need to address PPD. Participants are taught how to identify women at high risk and determine appropriate intervention options on a continuum, ranging from self-help to hospitalization.
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. The adversities inadvertently imposed upon children by the child welfare, foster care and judicial systems exacerbate their challenges.
Secure Base Behavior: The Developing Parent-Child Relationships and the Circle of Security Protocol—A Comprehensive Model for Education and Intervention
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. Dr. Marvin provided a comprehensive introduction to the evidence-based Circle of Security intervention protocol and the data supporting its effectiveness.
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. His work addresses the development of infant capacities for neurobehavioral self-organization, the organization of early infant-adult interactions, and how we understand the nature of normal versus abnormal development.
Changing the World, One Diaper at a Time: A Look at Fatherhood
Jonathan Diamond, Ph.D.
June 6, 2008
This workshop focused on the art and mystery of fatherhood. In this day-long training, participants examined the changing role of fatherhood and how they 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
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
Alumni House
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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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