Time Orientation and Parenting: Decreasing Stress by Focusing on the Future

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Target audience: All levels

This workshop will discuss how stressful environments can shape parenting practices and where parents focus their attention when interacting with their children. Information will be presented on recent research demonstrating that parents who focus more on meeting their immediate needs experience greater parenting stress and engage in harsher parenting. The workshop will also teach participants how to engage parents in an evidence-based approach to help parents focus on what they want their relationship with their child to look like in the future. This brief (single-session) intervention helps parents consider how their behaviors will impact their relationship with their children in the future and has been shown to decrease harsh parenting and improve the parent-child relationship.

1. Describe the relation between time orientation and both health and parenting outcomes.
2. Explain how time orientation may impact the parent-child relationship.
3. Apply an evidence-based intervention to increase individuals’ time orientation to parents who have challenging relationships with their children.

Dr. Felton is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Her research focuses on the relation between socioeconomic deprivation, decision making and health outcomes. Current projects examine novel approaches to increase access to family-based interventions to improve parent and child outcomes in low-resource communities. Previous to living in Michigan, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and a therapist at Alvord Baker & Associates LLC.

Please contact our CE Coordinator, Keri Linas at [email protected]

Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is authorized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of Continuing Education. A certificate for Category 1 credits will be awarded at the completion of each workshop.

Alvord Baker & Associates, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0213.

If Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC decides to cancel the workshop, all registrants will receive a full refund. Through Friday, February 28, 2025, registrants of the workshop who need to cancel for any reason will receive a refund of 90% of their registration fee. Cancellation requests must be received no later than Friday, February 28. 2025 either by phone 301-593-6554 x59 or by email: [email protected]. Be sure to include your name, address and contact information as provided in your registration information. No refunds will be issued for any reason for requests received after Friday, February 28, 2025.

Have questions about this seminar? Contact Mary Fallon at [email protected] or call 301-593-6554 x59.

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