Managing Parent/Child Feedback Loops: Behavioral Responses for Children & Teens Intensive

This course is FREE for Red Rock BHS employees.

Course Overview

Well-meaning caregivers contribute to the oppositionality of their children/adolescents. Well-meaning children/adolescents contribute to the oppositionality of their caregivers. Families are caught in a kind of Cold War of mutual escalation of tactics, caught in feedback loops. Helping Professionals need more than folk wisdom to assist parents with serious behavior issues brought to therapy. This two-day Behavioral Parent Training Intensive will cover both the basics and advanced applications of Behavioral Parent Training.

On Day One, participants will learn how to provide families with evidence-based, proven techniques to end this war of wills and restore collaboration and growth in the family. On Day Two, participants will expand on their learning by exploring enhancements for children who experience challenges such as attachment deficits, ADHD, sensory processing issues, and other divergent profiles.

Systems of Care Coordinators and Family Recovery Support Specialists (formerly FSPs) will find in this intensive concrete tools for supporting parents.

Learning Objectives

The participant will be able to:

• Examine the core concepts of behaviorism and link with the behavior modification strategies of Parent Management Training.
• Develop Family Systems Theories and their application to generating effective interventions for behavioral problems in children and teenagers, including substance use issues.
• Examine the root correlates of defiance and oppositionality and substance use in children and teenagers.
• Identify the role of Coercive Parenting Tactics in increasing oppositionality and substance use.
• Differentiate popular parenting strategies from clinical parenting strategies.
• Differentiate between Motivational Deficits and Skill-Deficits in child behavioral problems.
• Define the application of (14) Parent Management Training techniques to enhance family relationships and restore empathic connection.
• Identify guidelines for effective consequences.
• Differentiate effective versus ineffective application of recommended parenting strategies.
• Describe a (12) session Parent Management Training format for presentation to families.
• Differentiate the application of standard parenting strategies for child/adolescent behavioral problems that are complicated by Neurodivergence, such as ADHD/ADD, Bipolar Disorder, Attachment issues, and other cognitive/emotional challenges.
• Identify the Limbic System’s role in behavioral problems and identify (3) strategies of intervention to teach parents how to “surf the Limbic wave”.
• Develop an assessment model of exploring for “pathways and triggers” in behavioral problems.
• Develop a model of Eustress Parenting to teach to parents.
• Develop 8-steps to better behavior for child/adolescent challenged with cognitive and emotional skill-deficits.
• Identify the most common parenting errors in intervening with stubborn child/adolescent behavioral problems and identify their solutions.
• Identify specific interventions for (7) common misbehaviors of Hyperactivity, Oppositionality, Self-Righteousness, Emotional Lability, Risky Behaviors, Depressed Moods, and Rages.
• Develop the Collaborative Problem Solving approach to teach parents how to develop cognitive/emotional skills in children and prevent rages.