Dafna Lender – Getting Parents Onboard: Facilitating Effective Family Therapy with Difficult Parents

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Speaker: Dafna Lender, LCSW

Duration: 1 Hour 32 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Aug 02, 2023  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

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  

Speaker

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.

Objectives

1. Assess when it is appropriate to work with the parent individually 
2. Describe how to help a parent become less defensive and more open to their own attachment issues that are affecting the parent-child relationship 
3. Practice scenarios for de-escalating parent dysregulation. 
4. Apply gentle intervention to redirect a misattuned or critical parent in a parent-child session.   

Outline

Assessing When It’s Time for Parent Individual Work   

Breaking through Parents’ Defensiveness to Get to the Underlying Issues  
 

Preparing Yourself to be the Parent’s Secure Base  
 

Tools for Deepening Parent’s Regulation Skills  

• Role plays, Mindfulness Practice, Self-Care
  • De-escalate dysregulation 
  • Parents own attachment issues 
  • Redirect the critical parent 

Guiding Parents in Helpful Responses within Session 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• School Administrators
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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