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1. Practice how to explain to clients the neuroscience of hyperarousal in their “extreme parts.”
2. Demonstrate how the role of criticism and neglect from caregivers causes shame cycles in your clients and how parts-work breaks the cycle.
3. Create ways to engage parents in an exploration of their moments with compassion and empathy instead of guilt and shame.
4. Determine the difference between Parent Coaching and Parent Healing.
5. Demonstrate how to help parents lead from a place of power and set limits for their children while still expressing love and support.
6. Differentiate among the various parenting styles vs. attachment styles and how they influence your client’s parenting approach.
7. Evaluate what Internal Family Systems model of therapy brings to parenting with the “Parts” concept.
8. Analyze your parent clients’ “reactive moments,” triggers, and the likely reasons behind them.
9. Plan how to teach parent clients how to apologize for reactions and find an alternate approach to connect with their children.
10. Propose an IFS-informed approach to co-parenting that helps promote improved intra-family relationships.
11. Incorporate “a part of me language” in family conversation to allow for safe ways to have difficult discussions with children.
12. Apply the “triggering agreement” intervention when working with clients around resolving parenting issues that arise for them.

Starting the Parenting Journey

• Expectations
• Family legacy – both the gifts and burdens
• Cultural and spiritual dimensions
• Parenting styles
• Attachment styles

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Comprehensive, compassionate, non-pathologizing treatment approach
• Paradigm-shifting perspective on “psychopathology”
• Easily integrated into other therapeutic modalities
• Teach clients to access inner wisdom and self-compassion

IFS STEP-BY-STEP

Step 1: Identify and Connect with a Target Part

• Differentiate the person from the symptom
• Access a state of compassion and curiosity essential for healing
• Establish a relationship with the target part
• Learn intention behind the symptom

Step 2: Working with Protective Parts

• Facilitate internal attachment work
• Address the fears/concerns of protective parts
• Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts
• Resolve internal conflicts
• Gain permission to proceed with healing

Step 3: Healing the Wound

• Connect with the wounded part
• Witness the pain rather than relive it
• Retrieve the wounded part

Neuroscience and Development

• How brain development affects parents and children
• Developmental stages, attachment and parental response
• Parenting adolescents

What IFS Brings to Parenting

• Incorporating parts language in the Family
• Positive intentions of all parts
• All parts welcome…really

When Parents Are Not at Their Best

• Reactive moments
• When kids become your perpetrator
• The different triggering scenarios
• When parents overidentify with their children

Correct It, Don’t Perpetuate It

• How to recover and repair when parents lose it
• Direct access parenting
• Getting to the root of the reactivity

Improving the Co-Parenting Experience

• When parents aren’t aligned
• Creating a “Triggering Agreement”

From Reactive to Responsive

• Healing the wound
• The Parent Self
• Love and limits
• Maintaining the connection

Special Circumstances

• Single parenting
• Gender/sexuality issues
• Special needs children
• Parenting children with mental health issues
• Parenting adult children

Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson is a lead trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self-Leadership.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter "Who’s Taking What" Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.

Dr. Anderson maintains a private practice in Concord, MA.

www.FrankAndersonMD.com

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice. He is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Self Leadership and has employment relationships with The Trauma Center and The Center for Self Leadership. Dr. Anderson receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

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