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Over the past several years, Dr. Becky Kennedy—known to her followers as Dr. Becky, has been sparking a parenting revolution. Millions of parents have embraced her empowering and effective approach, a model that prioritizes connecting with kids over correcting them.

Many popular approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. In 'Good Inside' Dr. Becky shares her parenting philosophy as well as actionable strategies that can help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership. Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios—including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more.

'Good Inside' is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the clinician will be able to:

• List and identify two of Dr. Becky's parenting principles.
• Describe the difference between behavioral-based parenting and relationship-focused parenting.
• Explain Dr. Becky's structure of solution-based strategies while promoting healing in parenting decisions.
• List specific behaviors designed to help parents build connection capital with their children.
• Describe how using a didactic parenting framework versus a black-white parenting framework impacts how parents feel about their relationship with their children.
• Explain how parent self-development is connected to child development.
• Describe how by focusing on parent-child relationship versus child behavior solely helps improve the family system as a whole.

Syllabus / Course Instructions

• This course is suitable for CE for beginning, intermediate and advanced level clinicians.
• The Course consists of reading the selected book, successfully completing an online posttest and filling out a course evaluation.
• The printed book or ebook is not included. It must be purchased separately. We have supplied a link to Amazon.com for your convenience.
• Purchasing your course will give you access to both a printable copy of the test and an online version of the test. Print the test to use as a companion as you read the book and answer the questions.
• You cannot exit the online test once you begin, so have your answers available.

Additional Resources On This Site for CE

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• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 25th Anniversary Edition
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• The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
  by Gary Chapman, PhD: 8 CE Credits
• Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
  by Christie Tate: 12 CE Credits
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes and How to Say No
  by Henry Cloud and John Townsend: 12 CE Credits
• What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
  by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Ophrah Winfrey: 13 CE Credits
• Love More, Fight Less
  by Gina Senarighi, PhD, CPC: 11 CE Credits
• ACT Made Simple (2nd Edition)
  by Russ Harris, MD: 16 CE Credits
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
  by Jordan B. Peterson: 17 CE Credits
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing from Trauma
  by Bessel van der Kolk, MD: 14 CE Credits

Bio: Becky Kennedy, Dr

Called "The Millennial Parenting Whisperer" by Time magazine?Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mother of three?who is rethinking the way we raise our children. She specializes in thinking deeply about what's happening for kids and translating these ideas into simple, actionable strategies for parents. Dr. Becky's goal is to empower parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting.

Dr. Becky has amassed a loyal and highly engaged community of over one million followers on Instagram, created a library of popular parenting workshops, launched a top-rated podcast as well as a newsletter, and published a potty handbook.

Her weekly podcast, 'Good Inside with Dr. Becky' immediately went to number one on the Apple Podcasts' Kids & Family chart upon launching in April 2021. It was placed on the coveted New and Noteworthy list, landed the twenty-sixth spot on the iTunes Top Podcasts chart in June 2021, and made Apple Podcasts' Best Shows of 2021 list.

Dr. Becky received a BA in psychology and human development, Phi Beta Kappa and Suma cum laude, from Duke University, and a PhD in Clinical psychology from Columbia University. To learn more, visit: www.goodinside.com.