Producer: Vermont Psychological Association
It is long understood that improving relationships between children and their caregivers is primary to improving child mental health. What we often miss, however, are the specific mechanisms by which adult stress and dysregulation can derail childrens’ treatment progress. This training will illuminate these mechanisms, and will provide an accessible model of working compassionately and methodically with adult caregivers to meaningfully increase their availability for calm connection. A calm, connected caregiver is key to fostering resiliency and optimal development, as well as reducing symptoms among children with a wide array of diagnoses and lived experiences.
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The Vermont Psychological Association maintains responsibility for its programs and their content.
Completion of this course earns 6 continuing education credits. Psychologists licensed in states whose licensing board approves continuing education offered by APA-approved sponsors may earn continuing education credits for this course.
Courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved for continuing education for psychologists by the Vermont Board of Psychological Examiners. This course qualifies for 6 continuing education credits.
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation for continuing education credit for licensed independent clinical social workers in Vermont. This course provides 6 CE credits for Vermont licensing.
This course has been approved for continuing education credit by the Vermont Board of Allied Mental Health and earns 6 continuing education credits.
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Gillian Boudreau is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed school psychologist. Dr. Boudreau has worked with children and families in Vermont and New York City for many years, with the mission of understanding and addressing our human need for attachment, connection, and effective communication in such a way that can help individuals, family systems, school systems, and larger organizations reach their full potential. Early in her career, Dr. Boudreau developed and directed a comprehensive behavioral program housed within Vermont public schools addressing intensive emotional and behavioral needs. She currently runs a private practice for children families and adults with expertise in autism, anxiety and trauma. She is a national speaker on topics including psychological safety and emotional intelligence, teaches graduate courses on trauma, resiliency and mindfulness, and provides extensive training and consultation to school districts in Vermont, as well as the New York City Department of Education.
Discuss the mechanisms by which fear and stress make caregivers less effective.
List the ways in which parenting has been found to be particularly challenging based on lived experience, including parenting a child of an oppressed group as well as children with particular diagnoses.
Assess ways in which a stressed family system may be amplifying child symptoms.
Describe the importance of attachment for healthy brain functioning.
Develop language for helping caregivers understand how child symptoms may be re-activating their own traumatic responses.
Describe how adult dysregulation can interact with a child’s lived experience of oppression, inequity or injustice.
Apply a unique approach to psychoeducation and intervention that can help caregivers deeply understand and shift blocks to their own regulation, thereby improving treatment outcomes for children.
