Recorded webinar.

Description:

How do clinicians support parents who are stressed out and dealing with their kids’ challenging behaviors? Who are reflecting on how they were parented? Who are working through trauma? And who struggle with their own emotional regulation? 

In our time together, we’ll look at what the science says about the best predictors for how children develop, and how clinicians can work with parents in two main areas: cultivating secure attachment, and responding to behavioral challenges, both the run-of-the-mill kind and more significant social and emotional issues. Drawing on attachment and child development research, the science of interpersonal neurobiology, and clinical experience, this workshop selects the most relevant topics for clinicians in Dr. Bryson’s best-selling books The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, The Yes Brain, and The Power of Showing Up.

She’ll discuss the latest scientific research–with a special emphasis on neuroplasticity and the changing brain–in a way that’s clear, interesting, and immediately practical. Dr. Bryson will also share stories and simple strategies for honoring the Four S’s (helping clients of all ages feel safe, seen, soothed, and secure) effectively in professional and client interactions, as well as how she uses brain science in her own practice to help clients see things differently and feel hope about achieving lasting change in their lives.

We’ll learn this together by looking through the lens of interpersonal neurobiology, where we consider our own, and our client’s embodied brain, nervous system, mind, and relationships as we work as change agents to help our clients thrive. At the end of the conference, the audience will have a new framework for understanding and evolving their own work, along with practical strategies they can learn to help families move from reactivity to resilience. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Apply the framework of interpersonal neurobiology to child development, clinical practice, and parenting in a clinical setting with particular focus on the role of attachment relationships on the developmental trajectory and brain development.
2. Identify tools and ways of communicating with parents that clinicians can use immediately in sessions with parents, including learning strategies to teach parents for self-regulation, using the nervous system and “bottom up” processing.
3. Tell the consistent story of hope that the attachment literature gives us, where “history is not destiny.”, giving us ways to language hope and the science of neuroplasticity for our clients and ourselves.
4. Explain the perspective of how to “show up” on multiple levels-- from a staff leadership perspective, for supervisors, clinicians, parents, and clients.
5. Identify the patterns of attachment across the lifespan, how each mental model is wired via neuroplasticity, and the implications for integration, narrative, and healing.

Research:  This program is based on the research and information in Dr. Tina Payne Bryson’s books. A list of her books can be found on the books page on her website.

Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and facility therapists, psychologists, addiction professionals, case managers, and other interested individuals.

We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact us at by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.

ADA Accommodations: If you require any support for your ADA needs in the United States, please contact us by email at least 3 weeks prior to the event by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.