This fall, FCP has presents 2 exciting professional education workshops lined up.

The workshops represent topics that are in high demand for mental health professionals, educators, and nurses. Unfortunately, the November 6^th Workshop is already full. There is still time to register for the December 4^th Workshop.

All Workshops are held  at the Doylestown Health and Wellness Center Auditorium at 847 Easton RD/ Route 611, Warrington PA 18976, from 8:30AM to 12:00 Noon.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents

Youth who present with psychopathology often experience a disruption in their abilities to manage their emotions and cope with stress and frustration. Parents, clinicians, and teachers also report difficulties in helping support optimal self-regulation and coping. This workshop will provide an overview of the development of emotion regulation in normally developing youth as well as children with psychopathology.
The program will review empirically supported practices for youth and
how those may improve children’s emotion regulation abilities.

Workshop Objectives
At the end of this activity, the learner will be able to:
• Define emotion regulation and identify its association with mental health
• Identify common disruptions in emotion regulation in common childhood
disorders
• Become familiar with empirically-supported approaches for improving
self-regulation in children and adolescents

Presenter: Carisa Perry-Parrish, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her clinical interests emphasize practicing and promoting evidence-based care, including parent management training for non-compliant children, cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth anxiety/depression, and acceptance and mindfulness-based interventions to improve self-regulation. A skilled instructor and speaker, Dr. Perry-Parrish has presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Research in Adolescence, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Society  for Prevention Research. Her research has been published in the Journal of Development and Behavioral Pediatrics, Social Development, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development and the Journal of Developmental Psychology. She also serves as a Journal Reviewer for Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Child and Family Studies and the Journal of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Perry-Parrish’s research program, which has been supported by NIH, focuses on investigating the development of emotion regulation among youth, and how emotion and coping processes are related to psychosocial functioning.

Wednesday December 4, 2013

Selective Mutism and Social Anxiety:
A Great Paradigm for Innovative Treatment

Selective Mutism (SM) provides an amazing paradigm for creative, innovative yet evidence-based assessment and treatment of an important impairing childhood anxiety disorder. This workshop will give professionals practical strategies to help reluctant speakers at home school and community settings. There’s a little “C” in this CBT and we rely on very child-friendly guided and graduated exposures. Dr. Kurtz will also describe how he developed Brave Buddies, which has been
replicated nationally and enjoys strong empirical support.
Workshop Objectives
At the end of this activity, the learner will be able to:
• Differentiate effective and ineffective prompts to generate talking in children
with SM.
• Identify three Do’s and Don’ts in treating children with SM.
• Construct an exposure hierarchy for home, school, or community settings.

Presenter: Steven Kurtz, Ph.D., ABPP is one of the nation’s leading clinicians in the treatment of children’s behavioral problems and disorders, particularly Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and the social anxiety disorder, Selective Mutism. He is a widely respected clinical researcher and child psychologist and one of the world’s nine designated master trainers in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). He serves as Senior Director, Center for ADHD and Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Director, Selective Mutism Program, Child Mind Institute. As an assistant professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kurtz founded and served for 10 years as the clinical director of the NYU Child Study Center’s Institute for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders. He was also the founding co-director of the NYU Child Study Center’s Selective Mutism Program. Dr. Kurtz has published numerous scholarly papers, lectured widely, and his research has been featured at national, regional and city conferences. An expert commentator, he has appeared on numerous programs addressing child mental health, including NBC’s “Today Show,” CBS’s “The Early Show,” and PBS’s “Keeping Kids Healthy.”