Mastering the Art of Parent Engagement in Therapy with Kids and Teens

As therapists, parents are one of our biggest blindspots. We feel like we have limited time and options for collaborating and working with them. And honestly, for most of us, it just wasn’t something we were taught. But families are systems—ones in which parents don’t know what to do or what to say… often taking things from bad to worse.

So if you’re not working with the entire system in which your young clients live, every bit of progress you make in individual sessions will soon fall away. As an internationally recognized therapist known as “The Parent Whisperer,” I’ve spent my career mastering the art of engaging difficult-to-reach parents.

Now, in this must-have one-day training, I’ll share the tools, strategies, and how-to approaches you need to go beyond individual therapy and confidently integrate parents into treatment—so kids and their families can live with more joy, greater ease, and lasting peace.

In just one day, you’ll discover how you can:

• Develop self-leadership skills for both parent and child
• Achieve the goal to help parents see more clearly
• Remove yourself from the tornado – lead them from chaos to clarity
• Stay out of the drama – not your job to fix it
• Support self-sufficiency – or you’ll burn out
• Help parents come up with the answers – empower them
• Bring certainty, clarity, and groundedness to parents

Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate how therapist’s own self-awareness can be used to support parent and caregiver engagement and understanding of their contribution to child outcomes.
2. Analyze trauma from a developmental, psychological, and physiological perspective to understand children’s emotional and developmental needs.
3. Construct effective plans to respond to resistance and challenges when supporting parents and caregivers and children in therapy.
4. Demonstrate how involving parents and caregivers in child therapy will improve child’s treatment goals by engaging parents and caregivers in being models of the kinds of outcomes they want to see (regulating their own nervous systems, teaching them how to speak to their children so they will listen, etc.).
5. Integrate coregulation techniques such as yoga-based exercises/breathing and emotion regulation exercises, to promote more effective parent/caregiver-child interactions.
6. Demonstrate competency in utilizing role play techniques to self-regulate prior to and in sessions with parents.

Tuition

• $150 – Registration Fee
• $125 – Alumni, Field Instructor, FFL, Current Adelphi University School of Social Work Adjunct Rate
• $75 – Veterans Rate
• Free with Promo Code – Current Adelphi University Students

Faculty Bio

Victoria Grinman, LCSW-R, PhD

Dr. Victoria Grinman is a therapist, consultant, speaker and transformation agent who has been dubbed “the parent whisperer” and “the secret weapon relationship Spanx” by those that have been touched by her work. Victoria is a dual-licensed clinician with expertise in the experience of Posttraumatic Growth in parents of young adult children with Autism. She is the founder of Growing Kind Minds LLC, a private practice and global community platform where she is a speaker, trainer, contributing adjunct professor and consultant to educational and corporate institutions.

Victoria believes that people want to be seen, heard and understood as the whole person, and is passionate about being an expert companion to people as they authentically connect to their inner strengths so that they can achieve the connections and relationships they desire with the people that matter most to them, at home and in the workplace.

Victoria is a trauma-informed and trained yoga and mindfulness instructor to children and teens, a certified aromatherapist, and a dedicated long-time clinical volunteer for Experience Camps, a free one-week grief camp experience for children who have lost a significant person in their life. She is dedicated to being a facilitator of joy and positive change by highlighting the possibility and power in our struggles.

On a personal note, Victoria is a fur-mama to Vanna Goh Goh, a sassy Yorkie named after Vincent van Gogh, and enjoys photography and inspiring travel.

Credentialing Information

Successful completion for the award of approved continuing education credits requires attendance at the entire training/workshop and submission of a completed evaluation form.

CEs: 6

To receive approved continuing education credits, participants must attend the entire training or workshop and submit a completed evaluation form.

See full credentialing information and CEUs.

Cancellation Policy

Unfortunately, we cannot provide refunds for cancellations made seven working days or fewer before the event for any reason—or for no-shows. We can provide credit towards a future workshop up to 24 hours before the event. After that, no credit will be issued.

Accessibility Statement

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Adelphi University require that all events be accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact the event host identified on the event webpage; please allow for a reasonable time frame. The event host, when necessary, will collaborate with the Student Access Office.