Superparenting: How to raise a supersenser
Upcoming DBT-C courses for parents led by Francheska Perepletchikova, Ph.D.
Superparenting is now available on-demand in partnership with The Comprehensive Training Center. For more information please visit:
DBT-C Center of Training and Guidance, LLC
Superparenting: Raising a supersenser
Part 1: October 1, 2025 to December 17, 2025
Part 2: January 7, 2026 to March 25, 2026
Superparenting is a two part an informational course intended to provide knowledge, resources, and strategies to parents and caregivers of children and adolescents experiencing emotional or behavioral sensitivity or dyscontrol. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for children emphasizes caregivers’ role in improving child’s level of functioning and views caregivers’ adaptive responding as one of the main mechanisms of change; this course is intended to strengthen and equip caregivers with the skills they need to successfully fulfill this element of DBT-C.
Session 1 – Your supersenser – the dialectical view of emotional sensitivity
Session 2 – Validation! Validation! Validation!
Session 3 – What is invalidation?
Session 4 – Ways to promote change without parental invalidation
Session 5 – Essential Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance skills
Session 6 – Essential Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness skills
Session 7 – Practicing skills with a “not so willing” supersenser
Session 8 – Reinforcement and prompting with a “my way or highway” child
Session 9 – Shaping and school programs
Session 10 – Planned ignoring with an explosive child
Session 11 – Punishment when fists are already flying
Session 12 – Putting it all together to help improve a relationship with an environment
Session 13 – Making meaning and understanding functions of responses
Session 14 – Ways to reprogram our biological computer
Session 15 – Introduction to the Core Problem Analysis (CPA)
Session 16 – Principles of conducting CPA on yourself and with your child
Session 17 – When the sense of self-love is affected: “I hate myself, I am bad, I am defective”
Session 18 – Interventions to decrease vulnerabilities in the sense of self-love
Session 19 – When the sense of safety is affected: “Everybody else is to blame for my troubles”
Session 20 – Interventions to decrease vulnerabilities in the sense of safety
Session 21 – When the sense of belonging is affected: “Nobody wants to be friends with me”
Session 22 – Interventions to decrease vulnerabilities in the sense of belonging
Session 23 – How core senses interact and
Session 24 – Putting it all together to help improve relationship with SELF
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