Teaching Resilience: Introduction to the Resilience Builder Program®

Introduction to the Resilience Builder Program® (CE 3)

Nina Shiffrin Starin, Ph.D.

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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL: Target audience: This is designed for licensed mental health providers as an introduction to the resilience builder program. For more advanced instruction, a more thourough training is available.

This workshop will be an introduction to the Resilience Builder Program (RBP). The RBP is an evidence-based group intervention based using cognitive behavioral framework to teach skills based on protective factors that promote resilience. It is designed to help children and teens adapt to the hardships, challenges, and difficulties in their daily lives. The full RBP includes 30 sessions to teach resilience skills. The workshop will provide an overview of the RBP and will cover select topics in the RBP as well as adaptations to implement the RBP in school settings. This workshop will explain variations of the RBP and provide hands-on demonstrations for specific topics. RBP lessons are interactive and incorporate didactics, discussions, and role-plays with emphasis on group members developing a greater sense of self-efficacy and self-mastery through behavioral rehearsal. Topics covered include being proactive, cognitive flexibility, stress management, healthy thinking, sportsmanship, anger and anxiety management, self-regulation, starting and maintaining conversations. Relaxation, mindfulness, and self-regulation techniques help children and teens increase awareness of thoughts, body, emotions and actions through calm breathing, self-talk, visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, and yoga are included. Resilience Builder program includes at-home assignments and parent letters to help promote generalization at practice outside of lessons.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify how six protective factors of resilience are integrated into the RBP
2. Demonstrate three topics outlined in RBP.
3. Describe the structure of RBP within a school setting.
4. Explain two research findings of the RBP.

Presenter

Nina Shiffrin Starin, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and the Director of Research at Alvord Baker & Associates. Dr. Shiffrin has provided evidence-based treatments for children, adolescent and adults in a variety of settings. She earned her B.S. with honors and distinction in Human Development from Cornell University. She served as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Shiffrin completed her predoctoral internship at the Temple University Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder Clinic and earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Yale University. She is certified in Kazdin Parent Management Training and Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Child version. She is actively involved in research on cognitive-behavioral interventions for youth and has published journal articles and book chapters regarding CBT as well as anxiety disorders.

More Information:

Please contact our CE Coordinator, Candice Watson at cwatson@alvordbaker.com.

Continuing Education: 3 credits

Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is authorized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of Continuing Education. A certificate for Category 1 credits will be awarded at the completion of each workshop.

Alvord Baker & Associates, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0213.

Refund Policy

If Alvord,Baker & Associates, LLC decides to cancel the class, all registrants will receive a full refund. Through Friday, October 17th, 2025, registrants of the workshop who need to cancel for any reason will receive a refund of 90% of their registration fee. Cancellation requests must be received no later than Friday, October 17th, 2025. To cancel, please contact our CE Coordinator, Candice Watson at cwatson@alvordbaker.com,

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