About this webinar
Date: October 7, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Adele Lafrance, PhD, C.Psych.
This training is suitable for:
- Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
- Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors.
- Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
- Educators: teachers, ECE, school administration, support staff.
Level of training: Introductory/intermediate
Client age category: For professionals who work with clients aged birth to adulthood.
Trigger warning: At the beginning of the training, Dr. Lafrance will discuss the potential for triggers and what to do (participate passively, take breaks, etc.).
Description: This training is intended for clinicians and therapists working with parents of children and adolescents. In addition to an emotion-focused conceptualization of problematic parenting patterns, Dr. Lafrance will present tools and techniques to promote attitudinal and behavioral change in caregivers in a way that is supportive and productive.
This training also includes a module with practical strategies to manage challenging or conflictual co-parenting dynamics that impact on child/adolescent development and mental health.
"My hope is that participants get more than a training, that they have an experience that reconnects them to their compassionate instincts when faced with the complexity of family challenges." - Dr. Adele Lafrance
Learning objectives:
- Identify markers of emotional processes underlying problematic patterns of caregiving / therapy-interfering behaviours in caregivers.
- Apply tools and techniques to transform problematic emotional processes fueling problematic patterns of behavior in caregivers.
- Apply tools and techniques to increase cooperation and collaboration between co-parents in serious conflict.
- Discuss ethico-legal considerations related to increased caregiver involvement, including when caregivers are severely under-resourced.
This training is recognized by the International Institute for EFFT for a full-day of in-person training.
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute is pleased to partner with Caversham Booksellers to offer a 20% discount and a $5 flat shipping rate (from $10) towards the facilitator’s published books, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Model for Caregiver-Focused Interventions, and What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers.
To receive this benefit, enter the discount code SKCCMHLI24 at checkout when purchasing the book on Caversham Booksellers’ website.
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
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Facilitator
Adele Lafrance
Accessibility
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