Virtual Parent Training Groups
Below are a series of parent training groups being held virtually by our clinicians. Please read the descriptions below and let us know if you’re interested.
1. Parenting Skills for Managing your Toddler’s (Ages 1-3) “Big Emotions”
Each session will utilize a combination of instruction and role-play to teach a variety of parenting skills aimed at improving your toddler’s behavior and emotional regulation. There will also be time each week dedicated to being able to share and interact with other parents regarding the unique experience of raising a toddler and all of the challenges and rewarding experiences that it comes with.
Dates/times: 6 Wednesdays, 1-2pm (11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 12/1, 12/8, and 12/15)
General goals/topics covered each week:
- Improving your toddler’s behavior with the use of positive attention.
- Helping your toddler calm down when they’re experiencing a “big emotion.”
- Learning self-care strategies to assist you in supporting your toddler and their “big emotions.”
- Teaching toddlers listening skills
- Increasing your toddler’s language production
- Tantrums
- Aggression (e.g., hitting, biting, pinching)
- Fussiness (e.g., screaming, whining, crying)
- Anger, frustration, head-banging
- Attachment difficulties (e.g., rejection of parent, difficult to comfort)
- Separation anxiety or withdrawal from parent
- History of child abuse and neglect
- Parents who are experiencing parental stress (e.g., anxiety, dissatisfaction, difficulty coping, lack of confidence)
- Develop concrete parenting skills that can be used to improve your toddler’s behavior and help them regulate their “big emotions.”
- Learn how to play with your toddler in a way that increases their self-esteem; decreases anxiety, anger or frustration; improves the parent-child bond; and increases positive behavior.
- Learn concrete ways of caring for yourself so you can be available to your toddler.
- Learn a 4 step sequence to help your toddler start learning how to follow directions.
- Learn ways to prompt your toddler to start using their words more so that “big emotions” become less frequent in nature.
Group leader: Erika Stapert, PsyD
2. Parenting Skills for Addressing the Needs of Children (Ages 3-7) with Behavioral Difficulties
Each session will utilize a combination of instruction and role-play to teach a variety of parenting skills aimed at improving your child’s behavior. There will also be time each week dedicated to being able to share and interact with other parents regarding the shared experience of raising a child and the challenges that it presents.
Dates/times: 6 Fridays, 12-1pm (11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10, and 12/17)
General goals/topics covered each week:
- Improving your child’s behavior through the use of positive attention and effective discipline strategies.
- Addressing aggressive behaviors.
- Learning to play with your child in a way that provides a therapeutic effect and leads to better behavior.
- Improving your child’s behavior at school.
Targeted issues:
- Non-compliance
- Aggression
- Behavioral difficulties at school
- Negative attention seeking behaviors (e.g., whining, tantrumming)
Learning objectives for attendees:
- Develop concrete parenting skills that can be used to improve your child’s behavior and listening skills.
- Learn how to play with your child in a way that increases their self-esteem; decreases anxiety, anger or frustration; improves the parent-child bond; and increases positive behavior.
- Learn concrete strategies for dealing with oppositional and aggressive behavior.
- Learn ways to collaborate with teachers in improving your child’s behavior at school.
Group leader: Erika Stapert, PsyD
3. Parenting Skills for Addressing the Needs of Children (Ages 3-17) with Anxiety
This group will aim to change the behavior of parents, which in turn will help their child or children to better manage their own anxieties. This treatment is a good fit for parents with children with anxiety who are too young to actively participate, unwilling to participate or are unable to participate in treatment for various reasons. Each session will utilize a combination of techniques from evidence-based programs such as Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), parent-management training (PMT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Each group will include an instructional portion, as well as dedicated time to interact with other parents.
Dates/Times- TBD. Coming this winter.
General goals/topics covered:
- Psychoeducation on Childhood anxiety
- Learning specific skills to use when your child is in an anxious situation
- Learn how to increase support and decrease family accommodations
- Develop Fear Hierarchies for each family
Learning Objectives:
- Develop a good understanding of childhood anxiety
- Learn concrete parenting skills that can be used to manage your child’s anxiety
- Improve your self-confidence as a parent
Group Leader: Chelsey Rosen(Gil), PsyD
More details for all groups:
The fee is $900 for one parent or $1,200 for both parents, for all 6 groups, paid at the start for all the weeks upfront. You cannot pay week to week. There are no make-ups or cancellations. There will be a free 20 minute telephone screening to verify alignment of goals and goodness of fit. We are only accepting 10 parents per group. We can provide a receipt for parents to submit for out-of-network reimbursement. The CPT code for group parent training is 90849-95. This group is only available for parents residing in NY where Dr. Stapert is licensed.
Call us at 646-389-4112 or contact us here to get started.