10:45am- 11:45am                                                                                          

Clinical Interventions with Parents

In 2024 the US Surgeon General put out an advisory entitled “Parents Under Pressure” highlighting the stressors that impact the mental health, the well-being of parents and caregivers, the critical link between parental mental health and children's long-term well-being, and the urgent need to better support parents, caregivers, and families. Parent Coaching has been an area of increased growth      for counselors over the past decade and parents struggle with changing challenges to parenting. This presentation draws from Positive Discipline and Adlerian Psychology foundations to provide an introduction into parent coaching and ways to utilize these strategies to better support parents and families. It bridges the gap between traditional therapy and the growing demand for specialized parent support in today's challenging social and economic landscape.

Learning Objectives

Attendees will be able to:

1. Explain how parent coaching can contribute to improved social-emotional outcomes for children struggling with challenging behaviors.
2. Assess how parent coaching can support key parental stressors and different diagnoses in children.
3. Implement tools from parent coaching to support work with children and families

Presenter: Flora McCormick, LCPC     

Flora McCormick, LCPC is a professional counselor and parenting coach who is passionate about supporting families. She has been a Positive Discipline parent educator for 15 years, and has served as an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant in Montana for 6 years. Flora is the owner of Sustainable Parenting and a monthly columnist for Montana Parent Magazine. Flora also has a weekly podcast called Sustainable Parenting where she shares realistic tangible tools for parents to have more ease and joy in parenting. Flora enjoys camping, traveling to be with friends and family, and being a parent to Eva (8) and Caleb (11), along with her husband, Gabe - who grew up in Butte, MT.