PIW 138 - Parent Effectiveness Training: A Neuro-developmental Approach

Course Description

What age should children 'listen' to their caregivers? Is it possible to get teens talking? Can a preschooler do chores? Parenting is a job that requires ongoing professional development on children's capabilities and the latest neural-biological research to understand why and when children do what they do.

Parent Effectiveness Training (PET), is an evidence-based parent program presented within the framework of brain development information to enable parents of ages 2 - 25, to learn skills to enhance their parent-child relationship. Upon completion of the course, ongoing online parenting coaching is available.

Course Details

By completion of this course, successful students will be able to:

• Recognize problem ownership
• Demonstrate active listening skills
• Demonstrate assertiveness skills
• Demonstrate shifting-gears skill
• Distinguish between punishment and discipline
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills
• Determine resolutions for values collisions
• Identify the effect of temperament, and parenting styles on relationship building
• Define the stages of development including brain development.
• Apply the above skills for implementing parenting strategies for common parenting concerns.

Notes

Formerly: PIW 100 Parent Effectiveness Training