Treating Family Conflict and Coercion: An Overview with Dr. David Kolko
When: Friday, February 14 - 10:00 AM
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Zoom
Event Details:
Conflict and coercion are common aspects of family life. Contributors to these problems include stressful circumstances, communication challenges, and abusive/traumatic experiences. In turn, family and parental conflict can impact child functioning which can further influence family system functioning. Learning to address family conflict and possible coercion or abuse is a crucial competence when working with families.
This training has been developed to help you, as providers, work more effectively with families to address the risk for conflict and possible coercion. This includes supporting family engagement and collaboration as well as attending to some of the challenges families often experience. This training will provide an overview of some key methods that can address family conflict risks, such as ineffective discipline, traumatic responses, and even child behavior problems, designed to improve the youth-caregiver relationship. It will also include an overview of CBT for families, examples of effective assessment and intervention strategies, and tools for understanding ongoing safety concerns.
After participating in this training, you will be able to:
- Recognize and monitor family risks to enhance family safety
- Use some selected assessment tools
- Identify some of the key intervention strategies used to reduce distress, conflict and coercion
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About this Presenter
David Kolko, Ph.D.
Dr. David Kolko is a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Special Services Unit at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, a program devoted to the development and dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices for children or adolescents served in diverse community settings or systems including juvenile justice, child welfare, pediatric primary care, and mental health. Additionally, Dr. Kolko serves as Adjunct Staff in the Section of Behavioral Health at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. And, he is the co-developer of Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), an intervention for family conflict and coercion (anger, aggression, and physical abuse). In this role, he is involved in the dissemination, evaluation, and refinement of AF-CBT across the U.S., and internationally.
Dr. Kolko’s treatment research interests include the study and treatment of child abuse/family conflict, child behavior disorders, firesetting, and adolescent sexual offending, and the integration of behavioral health services, including collaborative care models, in pediatric primary care and family health centers. He routinely conducts professional seminars and trainings on a national and international basis to teach evidence-based treatments to practitioners working with the above-mentioned populations.