Training, Workshops, and Professional Development
Boston Child Study Center offers hourly, half and full-day trainings in an array of topics. The goals of these trainings are:
- To reduce stigma around mental health concerns
- To disseminate research based information and proven interventions
- To increase individuals’ awareness of and comfort with managing mental health concerns
- To increase individuals’ ability to promote positive well-being in children and adolescents
Training may be modified to be appropriate for a target audience of educators, administrators, students or parents.
Professional Development/Workshops
Examples include:
- Understanding School Avoidance and Creating a Collaborative Approach to Re-entry
- Selective Mutism & Social Anxiety in the School Setting
- Applying DBT skills in Schools – Interpersonal effectiveness, Addressing Self-harm
- Trauma-Informed Practices in the Classroom
- Deescalation and Crisis Management
- Emotion-Focused Executive Functioning Support
- Teacher-Child Interaction Training for Emotion Regulation (TCIT-ER)
- Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE)
Training and Coaching School Staff
Coaching staff on emotion-focused behavioral strategies from a variety of evidence-based interventions (e.g. CBT, DBT, TCIT) to support student success (e.g. decrease anxiety, increase speech, increase school attendance).
Team Dynamics
Being a resource for staff and teachers to help improve staff capacity and well-being.
