Registration: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

About the program:

Please note: You must attend the full 3-hour program to get continuing education credit for the event.

This session qualifies for 3.0 continuing education credits.

It often takes over 15 years after publication for research findings to impact clinical practice.  This is particularly troubling in the field of psychological interventions for children and adolescents. The presentation focuses on what is known about the correlates of resilience in at-risk children, and the state of intervention research. What works? How does it work? And how can research-based programs be effectively implemented in practice settings? Effective parenting is a core correlate of resilience, and interventions to improve parenting have shown significant and longstanding impact on children’s adjustment. The presentation reviews one family of effective parenting programs, and latest research in the area of prevention and intervention research.

Participants will:

1. Identify parenting as a core predictor of resilience.
2. Delineate what constitutes an effective parenting program.
3. Identify recent advances in prevention science that can bridge the gap between research and programs in community practice settings.

The Minnesota Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The Minnesota Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

About the presenter:

Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., L.P., earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1997.  She is the Director for the Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health at the University of Minnesota.  Now on the faculty as the Lindahl Leadership Professor with tenure in both the Department of Family Social Science and the Institute of Child Development, she is able to draw on both disciplines and train a range of students at the University of Minnesota. The thread that runs through Dr. Gewirtz’s work is improving outcomes for children and families affected by traumatic and other extreme stresses—from war to homelessness—and finding strategies that work best.  Her research and interest in resilience in kids has led to projects along the Israel-Gaza border, observing parent-child interactions in families exposed to years of missile attacks.  In Minnesota, her work with the Minnesota National Guard and Reserves on Project ADAPT has the goal of easing the transition after deployment by developing and testing the effectiveness of a parenting program to strengthen resilience in children and families.  Her research with the AMBIT Network, a federally funded Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, has the goal of increasing access to quality care and effective treatment for traumatized children.

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