This pre-recorded course is designed for mental health professionals who want a structured and evidence-informed framework for working with adult children, their parents – either individually or in family therapy.
Family dynamics shape mental health across the lifespan. Even when therapy begins with anxiety, trauma, grief, or relationship concerns, the parent-child relationship often becomes comes to the surface.
Many clinicians feel prepared to work with childhood attachment — but less confident when helping clients navigate the more complicated realities of parenting across adulthood:
- Changing family roles (e.g., becoming grandparents, caregiving)
- Conflict over life stages (e.g., empty nest, boomerang kids, aging parents, inter-family conflict and in-laws)
- Navigating adult child and parent dynamics
- Estrangement and reconciliation
- Grief and loss
This course helps professionals understand how the parent-child relationship evolves over time so they can support clients with greater clarity, confidence, and depth.
What’s included
- Lifetime access to all pre-recorded lectures (approximately 5 hours of training)
- Practical workbook with theory, reflection prompts, and clinical application
- Additional clinical toolkit with articles, worksheets, and resources
- Access to a professional community of clinicians working with family dynamics
Course Modules
- Module 1 — Healthy Enough: Understanding the relationship, roles, and therapeutic goals
- Module 2 — The Family Life Cycle: Understanding developmental transitions in parenting
- Module 3 — Introducing the ORDER Clinical Framework: Observe, Recognize responsibility, Discover perspectives, Endure discomfort, Repair and restore
- Module 4 — Practicing ORDER: Applying the framework in clinical work with practical strategies
- Module 5 — Finding Healthy Enough: Helping clients define realistic healing and relational change
Who this training is for:
This program is designed for mental health professionals who want a structured and evidence-informed framework for working with adult children, their parents – either individually or in family therapy.
You will learn how to:
- understand parent–adult child dynamics across the family life cycle
- identify cultural and societal patterns affecting present functioning
- recognize relational injuries beneath family conflict
- conceptualise the family dynamic using a CBT and attachment lens
- describe the family dynamic from the perspective of the adult child and parent.
- work with grief, estrangement, and possible reconnection
- help clients move toward a relationship that feels healthy enough with concrete strategies
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