Please join us to explore this important topic with Serena Flaherty, PhD, APRN, CPNP.

Adolescent parenting is often viewed through a lens crisis because of widely-recognized adverse outcomes. This webinar will provide learning opportunities for clinicians working with young parent-child dyads to re-examine clinical approaches to promote favorable outcomes. We will introduce the concept of "dual-development," a framework for understanding the intersection of typical adolescent development and early child development. Participants will explore how to reframe systemic biases related to adolescent parenting and create meaningful clinical engagement with this population. By shifting from a traditional risk-prevention model to a strengths-based approach, we will identify adolescent-specific protective factors to promote positive maternal and child outcomes. Finally, the webinar will include practical clinical strategies for using reflective functioning to encourage high-quality parent-child interactions to support healthy maternal and child development.

Participants of this webinar will be able to:

• Analyze the “dual-development” dynamic by identifying the intersection between adolescent and child development to guide developmentally-informed care
• Evaluate personal and systemic biases, such as “adultification” and stigma that can create mistrust and hinder clinical engagement with adolescent mothers and their children
• Appraise adolescent-specific protective factors to transition from a risk-prevention model to a strengths-based model

This webinar is for all of those working in the perinatal period as well as children birth to 5 and their families.

Date & Time:

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET

Thursday, March 26th, 2026