Course description

Caregivers often bring their children to therapy with hopes that the therapist will have the magic tools to manage their children’s challenging behaviors. Whether they’re not doing homework or completing chores, the reality is that before implementing discipline caregivers need to enhance the caregiver-child relationship. To do this, the therapist needs to first focus on supporting the caregiver. This course focuses on teaching clinicians evidenced-based interventions that are easy to implement and have demonstrated success to help caregivers handle challenging behaviors without fracturing the relationship with their children.

Learning objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least two tools to support caregivers of children exhibiting difficult behaviors

  • Identify at least two stress patterns that predict burnout and one that promotes resilience

  • Describe at least five interventions for regulation and resilience

  • Apply at least three evidence-based interventions to enhance the Caregiver-Child Relationship, decrease challenging behaviors, and increase compliance

Course outline

1. Caregivers’ mental health

a. Regulate, relate, reason

b. Ancillary tools to support caregivers

2. Stress patterns

a. Burn out

b. Resiliency

c. Interventions to promote regulation

d. Body awareness and emotional literacy

3. Caregiver’s toolbox

4. Caregiver-child relationship enhancement tools

a. Empathy books to promote regulation

5. Collaborative problem solving

References

Instructor

Alejandra Trujillo, MS, LMFT

Alejandra Trujillo is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Mexico City licensed Psychologist. She serves as Adjunct Faculty and Clinical Supervisor for California State University Northridge. Alejandra is certified in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Trauma Focus-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Managing and Adaptive Practice (MAP); and has leveraged these evidence-based practices in her over 20 years of helping young children, children, families and adults.

Additional Information

Format and Length:

Recorded video format (non-interactive). Total running time 92 minutes. Progress is saved after each lesson section so you can complete the course in multiple sittings. Please note that if you leave the course in the middle of a video, quiz, or survey section you may be required to start that section from the beginning.

Topic Area:

Clinical Practice 

Instructional Level:

Intermediate 

Completion Requirements:

To obtain your CE certificate, you must attend the full duration of the course, complete a satisfaction survey, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a course completion quiz. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within a reasonable number of attempts, and may be blocked from completing the course and receiving their certificate if unable to do so. Credit will not be provided for partial attendance. Your CE certificate will be issued automatically in your SimplePractice Learning account following completion of all course requirements.

Completion Quiz and Course Evaluation:

After watching course videos, the course completion quiz will be available to complete, followed by the course evaluation.

Who Should Attend:

Psychologists, counselors, masters or doctoral level clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists.

Financial Support Statement:

SimplePractice pays course presenters for their teaching. There is no other financial support for this course.

Conflict of Interest Statement:

There is no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support for this course.

Refund, Grievance, and Accommodations Policies:

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Contact Information:

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System Requirements:

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Continuing Education Approvals:

SimplePractice is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SimplePractice maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course provides 1.5 hours of continuing education (1.5 CE credits) for psychologists.

SimplePractice has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6961. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. SimplePractice is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

SimplePractice has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6961. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. SimplePractice is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

SimplePractice, #1749, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Simple Practice maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 07/06/2021 – 07/06/2024. Social workers participating in this course will receive 1.5 continuing education credits in the Clinical topic area.

SimplePractice is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs (CAMFT CEPA provider #145276). SimplePractice maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

SimplePractice is approved as a Rule/Statute Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling. Note that we do not automatically report CE completion to CE Broker at this time, so certificates of completion must be manually uploaded. Click here for more information.

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0582. 

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0030.

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0091.

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0206.

This course is not part of our continuing education program approved through NAADAC.