If you’ve ever felt like tweens, teens, or young adults could be helped by improving how their parents interact with them, this training is for you! Your Parent Compass is an evidence-informed curriculum designed to strengthen caregiver–youth interactions, particularly for families navigating mental health, behavioral, developmental, and/or trauma/attachment challenges. Drawing from DBT, Parent Management Training, and collaborative problem-solving approaches, it offers practical, research-based strategies caregivers can apply at home. Your Parent Compass can be delivered as a structured class or integrated into individual parent sessions, whether or not the youth is in treatment. Parents who have also participated in DBT multifamily skills groups report that Your Parent Compass further enhanced their parenting confidence and effectiveness.

Take-away materials:

Providers who take the training will have access to all the materials needed to offer Your Parent Compass as a group or individually including:

  • Slides for eight 1.5 hour classes, with teaching notes
  • Handouts
  • Skits
  • Eight 1.5 hour HIPPA-compliant videos of actual Your Parent Compass classes

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

  1. Guide caregivers in strengthening relationships with their struggling tweens, teens, and young adult children.
  2. Facilitate problem solving together between caregivers and youth to support improved functioning and outcomes.
  3. Coach caregivers in effective emotion regulation strategies to increase consistency and success in applying parenting skills.
  4. Implement skits and other experiential instructional methods to enhance caregiver skill acquisition.
  5. Apply validating strategies when responding to caregiver participation and homework to strengthen engagement and confidence in skill use.

Agenda

Attendees must attend both days for CE credit.

Wednesday, September 23 | 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Friday, September 25 | 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

12:30-2:15 Training

2:15-2:30 Break

2:30-4:30 Training

The Missouri Behavioral Health Council will award continuing education to behavioral health professionals that log in for the full session.

New Requirement for Continuing Education Credits (Effective July 1, 2025):

To receive CE credits for virtual trainings or meetings, participants are required to have their camera turned on for the duration of the training, except during scheduled breaks.

We understand that technical issues can arise. If your camera is not working, please notify the trainer in advance and remain fully engaged throughout the session. Active participation is required in order to be eligible for continuing education credit.

IMPORTANT CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION:

  1. All attendees must be registered and logged in individually to the virtual event.
  2. Please log in 5-10 minutes prior to the start time in order to work out any potential technical difficulties before the event begins.
  3. Attendees must be logged in and viewing the presentation for the full event time in order to receive continuing education. If an attendee is not listed on the generated attendance report for the full time, continuing education cannot be awarded. MBHC retains the attendance report for auditing purposes. 
  4. If an attendee experiences technical difficulty and is not listed on the attendance report for the full event time, continuing education cannot be awarded. MBHC retains the attendance report for auditing purposes. 

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