Member July 2025 CEU: "Teaching 'the Talk' - Counselors, Caregivers, and Challenging Subjects."
"Teaching 'the Talk' - Counselors, Caregivers, and Challenging Subjects."
Objectives of the presentation:
- Identify key concepts and frameworks necessary for productive conversations with children on challenging subjects
- Discuss skills counselors can foster in caregiver clients that facilitate healthy conversations
- Develop pedagogical flexibility for clinicians to connect and unify client's personal expertise with clinical insight.
Though parenting in 2025 comes with a slate of new and different trials - from overloaded schedules to social media to difficult and scary political and global changes - one of the most challenging aspects is navigating how to have challenging conversations with children... before the internet does it for you. Counselors are uniquely situated to be mentor-educators for parents who are doing their best to avoid the pitfalls they may have experienced in their childhood. By identifying necessary foundational concepts for effective communication, and developing pedagogical awareness for use in practice, clinicians who attend this session will find themselves more prepared to help their clients foster the confidence they need to tackle even the toughest conversations with their children.
Rachel Coler Mulholland is an LPC and Assistant Professor from outstate Minnesota. She is the author of "The Birds, the Bees, and the Elephant in the Room: Talking to your kids about sex and other sensitive topics" and has dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and human services, as well as a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Rachel has provided mental health skills training for children with severe emotional disturbance in a school-based day-treatment program, as well as school-based counseling for high school students and college students of varying ages. She focuses much of her professional energy on resilience development, trauma-informed therapeutic interventions, assertive communication, interpersonal skills, and self-efficacy. On her TikTok account, @lackofimpulsecontrol, Rachel is known for her honest, funny, responsible, and much-needed wisdom on talking to kids about bodies, puberty, consent, and sex."
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81748110165?pwd=7QVKnoeeZBj5o6io8C1yVKRd1b2hNr.1
Registration is required. After registration, a zoom link will be sent to you via email. Please make sure to check all folders and save this email so you can attend. Refunds will not be given due to missed attendance unless communicated prior to the event start.
Zoom links are not to be shared with other individuals.
MNCA members can receive this for FREE in their MNCA Membership Page under Member Calendar.
"Teaching 'the Talk' - Counselors, Caregivers, and Challenging Subjects."
Objectives of the presentation:
- Identify key concepts and frameworks necessary for productive conversations with children on challenging subjects
- Discuss skills counselors can foster in caregiver clients that facilitate healthy conversations
- Develop pedagogical flexibility for clinicians to connect and unify client's personal expertise with clinical insight.
Though parenting in 2025 comes with a slate of new and different trials - from overloaded schedules to social media to difficult and scary political and global changes - one of the most challenging aspects is navigating how to have challenging conversations with children... before the internet does it for you. Counselors are uniquely situated to be mentor-educators for parents who are doing their best to avoid the pitfalls they may have experienced in their childhood. By identifying necessary foundational concepts for effective communication, and developing pedagogical awareness for use in practice, clinicians who attend this session will find themselves more prepared to help their clients foster the confidence they need to tackle even the toughest conversations with their children.
Rachel Coler Mulholland is an LPC and Assistant Professor from outstate Minnesota. She is the author of "The Birds, the Bees, and the Elephant in the Room: Talking to your kids about sex and other sensitive topics" and has dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and human services, as well as a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Rachel has provided mental health skills training for children with severe emotional disturbance in a school-based day-treatment program, as well as school-based counseling for high school students and college students of varying ages. She focuses much of her professional energy on resilience development, trauma-informed therapeutic interventions, assertive communication, interpersonal skills, and self-efficacy. On her TikTok account, @lackofimpulsecontrol, Rachel is known for her honest, funny, responsible, and much-needed wisdom on talking to kids about bodies, puberty, consent, and sex."
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81748110165?pwd=7QVKnoeeZBj5o6io8C1yVKRd1b2hNr.1
Registration is required. After registration, a zoom link will be sent to you via email. Please make sure to check all folders and save this email so you can attend. Refunds will not be given due to missed attendance unless communicated prior to the event start.
Zoom links are not to be shared with other individuals.
MNCA members can receive this for FREE in their MNCA Membership Page under Member Calendar.
"Teaching 'the Talk' - Counselors, Caregivers, and Challenging Subjects."
Objectives of the presentation:
- Identify key concepts and frameworks necessary for productive conversations with children on challenging subjects
- Discuss skills counselors can foster in caregiver clients that facilitate healthy conversations
- Develop pedagogical flexibility for clinicians to connect and unify client's personal expertise with clinical insight.
Though parenting in 2025 comes with a slate of new and different trials - from overloaded schedules to social media to difficult and scary political and global changes - one of the most challenging aspects is navigating how to have challenging conversations with children... before the internet does it for you. Counselors are uniquely situated to be mentor-educators for parents who are doing their best to avoid the pitfalls they may have experienced in their childhood. By identifying necessary foundational concepts for effective communication, and developing pedagogical awareness for use in practice, clinicians who attend this session will find themselves more prepared to help their clients foster the confidence they need to tackle even the toughest conversations with their children.
Rachel Coler Mulholland is an LPC and Assistant Professor from outstate Minnesota. She is the author of "The Birds, the Bees, and the Elephant in the Room: Talking to your kids about sex and other sensitive topics" and has dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and human services, as well as a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Rachel has provided mental health skills training for children with severe emotional disturbance in a school-based day-treatment program, as well as school-based counseling for high school students and college students of varying ages. She focuses much of her professional energy on resilience development, trauma-informed therapeutic interventions, assertive communication, interpersonal skills, and self-efficacy. On her TikTok account, @lackofimpulsecontrol, Rachel is known for her honest, funny, responsible, and much-needed wisdom on talking to kids about bodies, puberty, consent, and sex."
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81748110165?pwd=7QVKnoeeZBj5o6io8C1yVKRd1b2hNr.1
Registration is required. After registration, a zoom link will be sent to you via email. Please make sure to check all folders and save this email so you can attend. Refunds will not be given due to missed attendance unless communicated prior to the event start.
Zoom links are not to be shared with other individuals.
MNCA members can receive this for FREE in their MNCA Membership Page under Member Calendar.