Frank Anderson – IFS and Parenting: Help Kids Transition Forward to a Calm Centered Place
Parents and kids alike are in the midst of experiencing a “double trauma.”
For many, the overwhelming nature of the pandemic inevitably triggers or activates past traumatic experiences.
Join Frank Anderson, MD, international IFS presenter and author, to learn how Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy can help parents help their children safely and seamlessly deal with their fears, uncertainty and anger in the present, while also helping them integrate back into the “new normal” as we transition back into our lives.
Objectives
- Demonstrate how parents can effectively communicate with their children from a calm, centered place.
- Demonstrate how parents can facilitate children’s self-awareness, confidence, and control of challenging circumstances.
- Create ways to encourage parents toward compassion and empathy in challenging moments instead of guilt and shame.
Outline
What IFS Brings to Parenting
- Incorporating parts language in the Family
- Positive intentions of all parts
When Parents Are Not at Their Best
- Reactive moments
- The different triggering scenario’s
- When parents overidentify with their children
Correct It, Don’t Perpetuate It
- Direct access parenting
- Getting to the root of the reactivity
- Connecting with empathy
Improving the Co-Parenting Experience
- When parents aren’t aligned
- Creating a “Triggering Agreement”
- Reactive to Responsive
About Frank Anderson
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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