Engaging Families of Young Children in CBT: Tailoring Treatment to Improve Engagement

Greta L. Doctoroff, PhD, is an associate professor of school-clinical child psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York. Her research focuses on promoting young children’s social-emotional competence and early school readiness.

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Evidence-based prevention and intervention programs for young children and families reduce risk for psychopathology and foster healthy parent-child relationships. Nevertheless, challenges with engagement remain, resulting in fewer parents utilizing programs that could improve outcomes. Dr. Doctoroff’s lecture focuses on sharing findings from research using an innovative approach from market research to improve the likelihood of uptake of preventative group parent training programs in Head Start. Clinically, she will also focus on ways to tailor evidence-based treatment to the unique needs of young children and families to improve collaboration and engagement with a focus on case examples that avoid a one-size-fits-all approach.

• Participants will list two key findings from consumer preference research in Head Start with implications for the use of evidence-based prevention programs.
• Participants will describe at least three ways to tailor evidence-based treatment for young children.
• Participants will list two principles to guide the tailoring of treatment.

• Greta L. Doctoroff, PhD, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Child Mind Institute Visiting Professor Lecture Series invites leaders in the field of child and adolescent mental health to talk about the latest research and treatment protocols. All events are open to the public. Continuing medical education (CME) credits for psychiatrists and continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists and social workers are available to registered course participants. Learn more.