Your Parent Compass: DBT and Parent Management Training for Parents who Support Struggling Youth

COURSE DESCRIPTION

If you’ve ever felt like tweens, teens, or young adults could be helped by improving how their parents interact with them, this training is for you! Your Parent Compass is an evidence-informed curriculum designed to strengthen caregiver–youth interactions, particularly for families navigating mental health, behavioral, or developmental challenges. Drawing from DBT, Parent Management Training, and collaborative problem-solving approaches, it offers practical, research-based strategies caregivers can apply at home. Your Parent Compass can be delivered as a structured class or integrated into individual parent sessions, whether or not the youth is in treatment. Parents who have also participated in DBT multifamily skills groups report that Your Parent Compass further enhanced their parenting confidence and effectiveness.

Your Parent Compass teaches caregivers skills to:

• Strengthen and repair the parent-youth relationship
• Radically accept or appropriately not attend to a wide range of less serious behaviors
• Regulate their own emotions to respond more effectively
• Collaborate with their youth to create change in a positive, gentle, and solution-focused way

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Define evidence-based practice
2. Define evidence-based treatment
3. Name at least 3 pros and 3 cons of using treatment outside of an evidence-based model
4. Identify potential harms of pseudoscientific treatment

 

Take-Away Materials
Mental health providers who take the training will have access to all the materials needed to offer Your Parent Compass as a group or individually including:

• Slides for eight 1.5 hour classes, with teaching notes
• Handouts
• Skits
• Eight 1.5 hour HIPPA-compliant videos of actual Your Parent Compass classes

 

Instructor | Nancy Cohen, PhD, is a clinical psychologist whose personal mission is to help families enjoy each other. She’s worked in private practice, at the University of Washington, in community agencies, schools, Head Starts, homes, juvenile detention, jail, and churches. Nancy has extensive training and experience in Behavioral Parent Training (BPT), DBT, DBT-C, and DBT for Families, and has learned a great deal raising her children.

Instructor | Tracy Kalloway, MA, LPC, is a Certified DBT Clinician™ through the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, with extensive experience delivering Full Model DBT to both teens and adults. She has led Multifamily and Adult DBT Skills groups, sharing her expertise in emotional regulation and mindfulness. Tracy’s dedication to supporting parents began in the early 1990s when she navigated the challenges of raising her own children and recognized the lack of support and resources for parents with challenging children. She firmly believes that “parents are always doing the best they can, and with non-judgmental support and new skills, they can do even better.” 

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Private Training Request

Portland DBT Institute training is available to schedule as a private training for your group. PDBTI’s training team travels locally, nationally, and internationally, to provide evidence based, adherent DBT training. Please fill out our Training Request Form and a training coordinator will contact you to see how we can work together to exceed your organization’s training goals.

CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS

A $60.00 handing fee will be deducted upon cancellation. Refund requests by fax or email must be received two weeks before the start date. In addition, the fees are non-transferrable.

PDBTI reserves the right to cancel any program due to under-enrollment, or any course due to work stoppages, instructor illness, or inclement weather. If a course is cancelled, PDBTI is responsible for refunding only the course fee.