How Children Heal: Understanding Different Therapeutic Approaches

North Dakota Professionals Coupon Code: NDKIDS

What if understanding how children develop could change the way you approach pediatric therapy?

Join this continuing education webinar to explore how cognitive, social, moral, and neurobiological development can inform therapeutic decision-making—and discover how to match interventions to a child’s developmental readiness, needs, and family system.

You’ll gain practical, evidence-informed insights into:

• Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Kohlberg’s stages of moral and social development

• The differences between top-down cognitive-behavioral approaches and bottom-up, somatic, play, and attachment-based modalities

• Clinical indicators—including somatic complaints, trauma, and affect dysregulation—that may point toward non-verbal or subcortical interventions

• Developmental considerations for selecting individual, parent-directed, or dyadic treatment models

• Non-directive and directive play therapy, art therapy, and sandtray therapy

• Trauma-Focused CBT, CBT, and DBT in pediatric populations

• Brainspotting and other approaches that incorporate subcortical and body-based processes

• Attachment-focused dyadic therapies, parent behavioral coaching, and systemic family interventions

Expand your knowledge. Strengthen your pediatric clinical toolkit. Better understand how development, neurobiology, and family dynamics can shape therapeutic care.

Register today and take a deeper look at choosing therapeutic approaches that align with how children think, feel, communicate, and connect.

This effort is associated with North Dakota’s Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) Grant, funded by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), administered through the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services – Behavioral Health Division.