News and Events: Parenting Institute: Adelphi University

When Young Children Need Help: Consultation with Parents and Teachers; Collaborative Intervention with Three-to-Seven-Year-Olds

Thursday, February 4, 2010
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Adelphi University
Alumni House
Garden City Campus

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. Whether providing consultation and support in early education programs and elementary schools or assisting children and families in clinics and private practice, practitioners need a sophisticated understanding of early childhood issues combined with a down-to-earth approach to intervention. With an emphasis on developmental mastery, behavioral control, and emotional well-being, this workshop explores some of the core competencies that young children need in order to thrive. It provides an easily accessible language with which to explain those competencies to the adults on whom children depend for support and guidance. And, it offers step-by-step approaches to collaborative intervention that target growth both at home and in school—approaches that help children regulate attention and emotion, connect successfully with their peers, approach learning with confidence, and manage the ins and outs of daily life with flexibility. The consultative process is illustrated through engaging case material, illuminating the complex and important work practitioners do to help three-to-seven-year-olds and the adults who teach and care for them.

About the Instructor
Deborah Hirschland M.S.W., LICSW, has been working with young children and their caregivers for over 25 years. She was a faculty member at the Boston University School of Social Work and an instructor in its Postgraduate Program in Clinical Work with Children, Adolescents, and Families for many years. In addition to being an active teacher and workshop leader, Ms. Hirschland mentors parents, teachers, and clinicians through her work with the Community Partnerships for Children, the Cambridge Human Services Preschools, and a number of Greater Boston area Head Start programs. She is on the faculty of the Connected Beginnings Training Institute, and was chosen by the Together for Kids Project to develop a comprehensive curriculum for early childhood mental health consultants. She is the author of Collaborative Intervention in Early Childhood: Consulting with Parents and Teachers of 3- to-7-Year Olds (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Deborah Hirschland's book will be available for purchase at this event.

Program Fees
Program Fee: $115.00
Early Registration Fee (before January 5, 2010): $105

Registration

	Register and pay your program fee online.
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	Download the registration form (PDF 672KB) and mail along with appropriate registration fee to:

Marcy Safyer- Director
Adelphi University Institute for Parenting
P.O. Box 701
Garden City, NY 11530

Please make your check payable to Adelphi University.

Credentialing Information and Continuing Education

Social Work
CASAC
Nursing
Education
ASHA
OCFS (Office of Children and Family Services)

This program has been submitted for approval for a total of 100 continuing education/training/contact hours or 10.0 ASHA Credits

Social work CEU’s are given through the New York State Chapter of the NASW.

CASAC training hours: Program information has been submitted for approval to the New York State Office of Addiction and Substance Abuse Services Education and Training for credits toward recredentialing.

Nursing Contact Hours: Adelphi University School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on accreditation.

Education Hours/credits: May be received at the discretion of your school. We are happy to provide any information you may need to help towards your approval

Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for 10.0 CEUs at the intermediate level professional area. ASHA CE provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

*The University reserves the right to cancel this or any program due to insufficient enrollment. Registrants will be notified and full refunds will be issued.

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