3rd Wednesday of each month*
7:30-8:30pm Eastern Time
Each month CMHRC hosts a free watch party for families on our most popular topics related to children’s mental health. Join us for the watch and then join in a live, interactive, Q&A with CMHRC staff, other families, and providers. Ask your questions, share in dialogue and discussion, and find your community here.
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Everywhere we look these days, people are talking about the mental health struggles that are mounting in our school aged children. But, when we talk about mental illnesses people balk at the term. Why is that? What’s the disconnect? Who suffers from the false equivalence of mental health and mental illness? Who suffers when one is stigmatized and the other isn’t? Don’t miss this deep dive into understanding the fundamental differences between mental health and mental illness.
We often hear parents, teachers, and other adults use words like, “chose,” “refused,” and “decided”, when talking about the behavior of kids and teens, as in “the child decided to misbehave”. But, in many cases, the child in question is dealing with symptoms over which they have no control and they lack the coping skills necessary to manage them. Join us for this deep dive into differentiating misbehavior from symptoms of mental illness, hone your skills, learn more effective interventions, and get tips on how to coach the parents you work with on understanding this key distinction.
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April
Parents and child develop experts will tell you that children need discipline and limit setting in order to thrive. But what happens when a child lives with a mental illness that causes involuntary symptoms? How do parents know what to discipline and how to do it? How do professionals advise families effectively on limit setting?
The truth is that traditional methods of discipline, limit setting, rewards, and punishments just don’t work when children live with mood disorders. Trying over and over again to make the same old strategies work only makes life harder. Join us as we explore methods of discipline and limit setting that actually work to reduce stress in your home.
Antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics — OH MY! Confused about the psychiatric medications? Don’t know what questions to ask the doctor or pharmacist? Understanding mental health medications matters. This webinar breaks down the differences between antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics in clear, easy-to-understand terms on what they are, how they differ, and why it matters.
June
Parents, are you tired of feeling like your life is falling apart when your child is having a symptomatic day? Providers, are you tired of feeling as though you’re only hearing about what happened 15 minutes before your patients arrived at their appointment? Well, we have a simple solution, it’s called data tracking, and it’s easier than you think.
Join us for this free webinar where we’ll take a deep dive into how to assess symptom severity, frequency, compare their presentation to baseline behaviors, assess objectively if medications are impacting symptoms in the way they’re supposed to, and more.
Parents, learn how to become a citizen scientist, ready to accurately and objectively track your child’s mental healthcare journey. Providers, learn how you can follow your clients in real time when they’re not in your office and access this accurate, up date, and objective information on how they’re managing at home.
Cool, cool, cooling for the hot, hot summer. Families and practitioners alike, come learn how to use simple at home cooling strategies to support mental health when temperature dysregulation hits. We’ll go over how to build a plan to integrate these thermoregulation techniques into daily life, all year round. These strategies each go a long way to reducing overheating and making sleep, moods, and all of daily life more manageable when you live with mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and TSDD.
September
As the new school year gets underway, join us for a conversation with Newmark K-12 Schools founder and co-director Cynthia Allman. We’ll talk about the tools children and teens with mood disorders need at school to be successful, how parents can partner with their child’s school, and the approaches that educators can use to make school a rewarding learning environment for kids with mood disorders.
Sleep is more complicated than just getting into bed and night and closing your eyes, and parents know that improving sleep quality and duration improves quality of life in the whole house.
With the clocks changing in a few weeks, it’s the prefect time to learn how to reduce those bedtime battles, and make the most out of your child’s sleep routine.
November
There’s still a lot of stigma around psychotherapy, psychiatry, and mental health. That stigma often means that people might not understand what the therapy process is really about, might feel intimidated by it, or just think to themselves, “that’s not for me.” Come learn from professionals and families about what psychotherapy actually is, how it can help, and why it should be accessible to everyone.
December
Modern life is busy, exhausting, and hard to keep up with. No matter how much we love our children (and we love them so much), being caregivers just makes it that much harder. Join us for a gentle, holiday edition, of self-care for the caregiver. Find conversation and community in our final Wednesday Watch Party of the year.
* There is no Wednesday Watch Party in the month of July.
* Due to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays November and December Wednesday Watch Parties happen on the 2nd Wednesday of those months.
Non-credit certificates of attendance that do not include any CE credits are available for a $5 preparation fee, and can be requested via this link the day following each live webinar.
