Enhancing Family Engagement Through Adaptive Practices

Type:
  Course
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
CE credits:
1.5 CEs
Presented by:
DMH + UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence
Featuring:
Daisy Gomez, EdD and Eraka Bath, MD
Relevant categories:
Behavioral Health Family Engagement Juvenile Legal System
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Overview

This course is designed to support facilitators and clinicians who work with adolescents and youth involved in various systems (e.g., child welfare, juvenile justice, residential treatment, foster care, and more). When working with youth and adolescents in these settings, facilitators experience distinct challenges when engaging with the youth’s family. In this course, facilitators will enhance family engagement and appreciation while building a more positive family climate for the youth and their families. Facilitators will learn specific strategies such as tokens of appreciation to share with families. They will view demonstrations of the Feeling Thermometer and the Feel-Think-Do grid to help youth and their families improve emotional regulation. Applications for delivering family engagement strategies and techniques via telehealth are covered. The course will also equip facilitators to lead family discussions on roles and rules, and support the flexibility, empathy, and adaptability of youth and their families.

  Keywords: adolescent, family, family engagement, foster care, intervention, juvenile hall, STRTP, youth
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Learning objectives

  • Assess how tokens of appreciation lead to a positive family climate
  • Identify how the Feeling Thermometer and the Feel-Think-Do grid promote emotion regulation
  • Discuss rules and roles within families
  • Describe skills to promote family engagement, with and without family members physically present
  • List possible challenges/barriers facing multi-culturally diverse systems-involved youth

Professional credit

  • This activity offers the following types of credit: APA
  • 1.5 CEs are available.
  • Additional details can be found in the activity document for this resource.

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