Kickstart a Healthy Future Family Event, 6/28 from 10-2 @ Blanchette Park!! No registration required!
Motivational Interviewing: Psychologists' Best Tool for Motivating Kids and Bringing Out Their Best
Join psychologist and author Dr. Emily Kline for this informative and practical webinar on how to use simple conversational tools to have more effective conversations about everything from homework to marijuana with your teens. Dr. Kline will teach you a technique called motivational interviewing, which helps to decrease defensiveness and bolster healthy problem solving. By registering for this webinar, you will have a chance to receive a free, signed copy of Dr. Kline's book, The School of Hard Talks: How to Have Real Conversations with Your (Almost Grown) Kids.
This event is free to the public!
When: Nov 8, 2023 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Dr. Emily Kline is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. She serves as the Director of Psychological Services for the Wellness and Recovery After Psychosis team and leads the Motivational Interviewing for Loved Ones lab at Boston Medical Center. She is an expert on substance use, psychosis, adolescent and young adult mental health, and family communication.
Dr. Kline is the author of The School of Hard Talks: How to Have Real Conversations with Your (Almost Grown) Kids and the creator of The School of Hard Talks Online. She has published dozens of articles appearing in a range of peer-reviewed scholarly journals, textbooks, and popular magazines, and spoken with audiences all over the world.
Dr. Kline completed her bachelor’s degree at Haverford College, her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and her clinical and post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Boston with her family.
Learn more at https://www.dremilykline.com/
In coordination with the annual Teen Drug Summit, November 2nd--learn more about this event at Teen Drug Summit
Funding for this event is provided by the federal Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response issued to the State of Missouri from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).