The Art and Science of Parenting and Grandparenting

2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs

Presented by WCSPP’s Child, Adolescent, Parent (CAPP) Psychotherapy Training Program
Parenting in Today’s World: Clinical Conversations

The Art and Science of Parenting and Grandparenting:
Raising Emotionally Healthy Children in a Challenging World

American children and American families are in crisis. Families are facing extreme stress, and our children, by almost every metric, are not doing well.

Helping our children and grandchildren succeed in life is less about teaching skills and more about having better conversations; less about earning rewards and more about learning to cope with painful feelings; less about individual achievement and more about helping others; less about clearing a path to success and more about strengthening an inner feeling of confidence and pride.

In this talk, Ken Barish, PhD, will offer guidance on many of the most important concerns of contemporary parents and grandparents: How we can protect our children’s emotional health, support their love of learning, solve family problems, and nurture feelings of empathy and kindness toward others. He will present practical suggestions for how, as parents and grandparents, and as child therapists, we can strengthen the quality of our family relationships and remain a vital source of encouragement and emotional support for our children and grandchildren.

Live on Zoom!

Ken Barish, PhD, is a graduate and faculty member of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is also on the faculty of the William Alanson White Institute Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. Ken is Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill – Cornell Medicine and Visiting Professor at Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, China. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Ken is the author of How To Be A Better Child Therapist: An Integrative Model for Therapeutic Change. He also wrote a book on political dialogue, Bridging Our Political Divide: How Liberals and Conservatives Can Understand Each Other and Find Common Ground. Bridging Our Political Divide is winner of the 2025 International Book Award for Current Events.

Ken’s most recent book is The Art and Science of Parenting and Grandparenting: Raising Emotionally Healthy Children in a Challenging World.

In addition to his teaching, writing, and clinical practice, Ken plays jazz trumpet.

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