Engage with Purpose
Build your toolkit with practical strategies and interventions for meaningfully involving parents in child-focused therapy.
Remove Barriers
Identify common challenges that interfere with parent engagement and learn ways to address them collaboratively.
Meet Families Where They Are
Adapt your approach in culturally responsive ways that recognize each family’s unique context and experiences.
About the course
Learning Objectives By the end of this presentation, Learners will be able to: 1. Identify 4 strategies for building parent engagement. 2. Identify 2 barriers that interfere with parent engagement. 3. Give one example of an effective cultural adaptation for work with parents. 4. List 3 interventions for involving parents in child-focused therapy.
Meet Your Instructor
Elisa DeVargas, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in Albuquerque, NM where she recently started a private practice. Dr. DeVargas specializes in the provision of Spanish language services, trauma-focused therapy, and child and adolescent mental health. Her clinical interests include child and adolescent development, parent skills training, trauma-focused intervention and family therapy. Her research interests include substance abuse prevention, cultural adaptation of EBPs, bilingual training of psychologists, and Latinx mental health. Dr. DeVargas has a long-standing commitment to developing her Spanish language skills and providing culturally sensitive services to underserved populations. She is also actively engaged in the National Latinx Psychological Association. Through various leadership roles, Dr. DeVargas has advocated for advancements in bilingual training of doctoral health psychology students, and she’s launched a national Spanish consultation group to support bilingual mental health providers across the U.S. Dr. DeVargas completed her doctoral training at the University of Oregon with a PhD in Counseling Psychology. She did her pre-doctoral internship at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center APA accredited pre-doctoral training site. After completing her degree, Dr. DeVargas spent 8-weeks in Peru where she obtained specialized training in Spanish for mental health, followed by a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the APA accredited Southwest Consortium at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center. Visit her website at www.trenzitas.com for more information and contact her at [email protected] or 505-382-6487.
Sign up today and build your therapy toolkit
Join today and strengthen your approach to parent engagement.
$60.00