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Getting Parents Onboard: Facilitating Effective Family Therapy with Difficult Parents
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Too many children feel hurt, angry, and disconnected from their parents—and too many parents feel discouraged that their child-rearing approaches aren’t working.
As a clinician, despite attempting various interventions to help a parent be successful within a parent-child session, you find that the unhelpful parent attitudes and behaviors persist.
Join Dafna Lender, LCSW, as she guides you in learning the steps towards successful parent attachment work.
You’ll learn how to:
Identify when a parent needs more focused individual work
Set goals for parent-focused work
Assess when it is time to re-introduce child into the therapy room
Navigate parent child sessions when the parent’s defenses are re-triggered
Help parents initiate repair and stay present with the child to facilitate true healing and connection
Dafna Lender, LCSW, The Theraplay Institute
Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender is an author for Psychotherapy Networker.
