Personal Best Program: A Curriculum to Promote Adult Development and Sensitive Parenting

 Earn 10 CE Contact Hours

This two-day workshop prepares participants to implement Personal Best groups with parents and caregivers of young children. The program helps parents manage stress, reach goals, understand their children, and improve relationship, problem solving and communication skills. The goal is for parents to become resilient, self-aware and engage in positive interactions with their child. The 16-session curriculum provides guidelines for discussion, small and large group activities and personal reflection. The workshop is appropriate for clinicians and early childhood staff who would like to offer group interventions to diverse populations including underserved and vulnerable families, teen moms, and at-risk children.

Learning Objectives:

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

• To increase parent confidence, social support, executive function and social-emotional skill
• To describe the unique neurobiological and familial influences on child learning and behavior
• To identify stress triggers, responses and effective coping strategies
• To discuss parenting beliefs that influence the parent-child relationship and parenting practices

Who Should Attend:

Agency staff, clinicians and alumni

Dates/Times:

Thursday, November 13, 10 am – 4 pm
Friday, November 14, 9:30 am – 4 pm

Meet Dr. Judy Grossman:

Judy Grossman, DrPH, OTR, is Associate Director of the Center for the Developing Child and Family at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and Former Director of the Resilient Families: Children with Special Needs project. She is adjunct faculty at NYU; previous academic appointments include Chairperson, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center; Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine; and adjunct faculty at Columbia University. She has conducted early intervention and special education policy studies for the NYS Department of Education, NYC Board of Education, and school systems in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT. Dr. Grossman has published and presented nationally and internationally in the areas of family resilience, parenting, mental health consultation and best practices in early intervention/special education. She consults to community agencies and maintains a private practice working with couples and families.