
Collaborative Practice Training
Supporting professionals to build positive, productive collaborative relationships and enhance stakeholder collaboration.

Are you after bespoke collaborative practice presentations or workshops for your workplace?
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Contact Phoenix Director Leonie White to discuss your needs

Creating Positive Parent Partnerships
90 Minute Presentation
Children are embedded in systems e.g., family systems, peer systems, school systems, and their community. This means that working with kids and teens necessarily involves working with their parents, and at times other professionals and parts of the community.When kids are struggling and needing support it can be a very anxious and stressful time for everyone, including parents and the school staff involved in supporting the young person. The anxiety involved can be tricky to manage, and it can create relationship tensions making it challenging at times for educators and parents to partner effectively. Partnering with parents can also be challenging when parents share different views to professionals as to whether there is a problem, what the problem is, what to do about the problem, and whose job it is to solve the problem. With different views, can come further tensions and heightened emotions, with emotions like stress and anxiety being contagious between families and schools sometimes resulting in a reduction in effective communication and collaborative partnerships.
While everyone involved in supporting kids and teens is working with the best intentions, parents with love and concern, and educators with care and concern, it can sometimes feel as if everyone is at loggerheads. In this presentation helpful key ideas from neuroscience, attachment theory, communication, mentalization based therapy, and family therapy will be presented to promote positive collaborative relationships. These ideas will come with practical strategies to help bring out the best in everyone and create positive partnerships with parents and other professionals.