Supporting and Guiding Parents to Enhance Early Emotional Development
Speaker(s): Jean W. Gowen, Ph.D., Judith B. Nebrig, M.S.W. |
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Logistics
Recommended book(s) or materials: Enhancing Early Emotional Development: Guiding Parents of Young Children
Seminar length: 1-2 days
Number of participants: 15-60
Who will benefit from this seminar: Staff of early intervention, child care, public health, child welfare, mental health, teen parent, and parent participation programs, as well as others who work with infants, toddlers, and their parentsSpeaker Fees: (What do fees include?)
1 day: $1500
2 days: $2100
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Tell us about specific issues you encounter in your work with parents of infants and toddlers and/or your questions about early emotional development — we can customize the workshop to suit your interests. |
Seminar Description
Emotional development, including infant–parent attachment, stems from the relationships babies and toddlers develop with their parents. Drawing on research and clinical experience, Dr. Gowen and Ms. Nebrig teach seminar participants about early emotional development and show them how to build strong relationships with parents that guide and support that development. Participants will
- gain an in-depth understanding of attachment and other aspects of emotional development during babies’ first two years
- learn specific strategies that parents can use to promote emotional development at each of five stages
- explore techniques for helping parents deal with various challenges to effective parenting, such as mental illness, substance abuse, mental retardation, and a history of abuse and neglect
- discover ways to support parents who seem unmotivated, resistant, hostile or apathetic
Quality relationships are the underlying theme of this workshop, and participants will learn how to strengthen many different kinds: parent–child, professional–parent, supervisor–supervisee, and parents’ and professionals’ interactions with other community helpers.
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