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2024 – 2025 Workshops
- Sunday, February 23, 2025 – Does Your Child Struggle with Trying to be Perfect?
A discussion with Dr. Patricia M. DiBartolo, Department of Psychology, Smith College. Dr. DiBartolo is one of the leading authorities on Social Anxiety and Perfectionism whose work has been featured in such mainstream media outlets as Time, Psychology Today and Health. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles on Social Anxiety and Perfectionism. - Sunday, December 15, 2024 – Sports Performance: A panel discussion. Hosted by Edward Plimpton, PhD. A panel discussion of how to maximize performance, get over pregame jitters and recover from slumps. The panel includes Alan Goldbery, EdD author of Sports Slump Busting and several other books, Ben Thompson, LICSW whose private practice is focused on athletic counseling, and Sydne Didier, a local swim coach and long-distance open water swimming who recently was the first person to swim around Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean. It will be an enlightening discussion with three people who really understand the mental/emotion part of sports participation.
- Sunday, November 14, 2024 – Selective Mutism with Aimee Kotrba, PHD and Hosted by Edward Plimpton, PhD. Please send an email to BHCC@napeds.com to request the recording.
2023 – 2024 Workshops
- Sunday, May 19 – Vaping with Jonathan Schwab, MD and Patricia “Kit” Bayer, MSW, LICSW – The rise of cannabis and nicotine vaping has changed the landscape of adolescent substance use as vaping has become more common among youth.
- Sunday, April 14, 2024 – Navigating Adolescence: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for maintaining connection, communication, and emotional regulation with your teen with Kristen Joyce, LMHC and founder of Northampton Center for DBT.
- Sunday, March 10, 2024 – Cultivating a Peaceful Table: Building Positive Food Relationships with Amanda Mittman, MS, RDN, LDN and Heidi Karner, MS, RDN, LDN from Happy Valley Nutrition, PC
- Sunday, January 14th – Childhood Grief with Shelly Bathe Lenn, M.Ed., CAGS and Jonathan Schwab, MD
- Sunday, December 17th – Child Emotional Regulation with Carolina Clark, LICSW and Anjali Maticke, LMHC
- Sunday, November 19th – ADHD and Spirited Children with Stephen Brevik, Psy.D. and Anjali Maticke, LMHC
- Sunday, October 15th – Hope vs Hype: The Reality of Healthcare for Transgender Youth with Drew Cronyn, MD and Jonathan Schwab, MD
- Sunday, September 10th – School Anxiety with Ted Plimpton PhD
2022-2023 Workshops
- Sunday, June 11 –Healthy Sleep During Childhood and Adolescence with Wendy Chabot, MD
- Sunday, May 21st – Raising Happy Eaters: How to Help Your Child Love Food with Michele LaRock, RDN, LDN and Kristen Deschene MD
- Sunday, April 2nd – Eating Disorders and Body Image: A Family Based Approach with Veronica Everett, MSW, LICSW and Behavioral Health Clinician Anjali Maticke, LMHC
- Sunday, March 12th – Embracing Autism: Supporting Families from Diagnosis to Treatment with Jennifer Bogin, MSed, BCBA, LBA
- Sunday, February 12th – Sibling Rivalry with Timothy Hope, PhD and Jonathan Schwab, MD
- Sunday, January 8th – From Chaos to Calm: Supporting Your Child or Teen’s Executive Function Skills at Home with Meg Taylor, M.S.
- Sunday, December 18th – Parenting 101 with Ted Plimpton PhD
- Sunday, November 13th – Depression and Isolation with Adam Blackburn, LMFT
- Sunday, October 16th – Adolescent Substance Use: What you need to know with Kit Bayer, LICSW
- Sunday, September 11th – Anxiety in Childhood: How to Help your Child through the Stresses of Everyday Life with Ted Plimpton, Ph.D.
2021 – 2022 Workshops
- Sunday, December 5th – Special Education Basic Rights presented by Desiree Lowit LICSW
- Sunday, November 7th – Everything COVID presented by Jonathan Schwab, MD, Kristen Deschene, MD and Peter Everett, MD
- Sunday, October 3rd –Coping with COVID video presented by NAP’s IBH clinicians, Anjali Maticke, LMHC and Adam Blackburn, LMFT Slides Only
- Sunday, April 3rd – AHDH: From Diagnosis to Treatment presented by Meg Taylor, M.S. and Jonathan Schwab, M.D.
- Sunday, June 5th – Helping your Infant and Toddler Sleep through the Night with Wendy Chabot, M.D.