GPS program to discuss how to create the ultimate relationship with kids
On Thursday, Jan. 11, the Glenbard Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present "Changeable: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Method to Reduce Anxiety or Challenging Behavior" with best-selling author and clinical psychologist J. Stuart Ablon in two 90-minute Zoom webinars at noon and 7 p.m.
Go to glenbardgps.org for further information and the links to these webinars.
If you are tired of the meltdowns, nagging, yelling and power struggles, this workshop is for you. Making a change in problem behavior is difficult.
The renowned psychologist asks these questions: “What if people don’t misbehave because they want to but because they lack the skills to do better?” and “What if changing problem behavior is a matter of skill, not will?”
Ablon returns to GPS to present a radical way of thinking about challenging and unwanted behavior. He will share insights into collaborative problem-solving methods based on more than 25 years of clinical practice and neuroscience research. Participants will learn compassionate strategies to manage frustration, anxiety and explosive behavior.
Ablon is an award-winning psychologist and founder and director of Think:Kids, the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an Endowed Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has authored three books: “Changeable: How Collaborative Problem-Solving Changes Lives at Home, School and at Work,” “The School Discipline Fix” and “Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach.”
Continuing professional development units are available for these webinars.
GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, Duly Health and Care, DuPage Regional Office of Education, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Kids Matter, Kiwanis Clubs, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.
To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org or (630) 942-7668.