Fostering healthy parent-child relationships and supporting child development and well-being
The Stanford Parenting Center (SPC) ensures that parents are powerful partners in supporting their child’s mental health and well-being by providing them the right resources and tools. Parents are empowered to tap into their existing parenting abilities and learn evidence-based strategies to help them recognize, defuse, and even treat their child’s mental health difficulties.
Our team of experts believes that all parents can expand their skills and develop new behaviors to foster healthy parent-child relationships and support their child’s development and well-being. By accessing our wide range of programs and complementary resources, parents gain confidence in their parenting skills, find greater enjoyment in their parenting roles, and decrease the risk for pediatric psychiatric disorders. The SPC works with the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine, giving you access to a team of world-class experts.
For each topic on the right, we offer webinars, online parenting classes, and individual treatment options. Please click each topic to learn more about our offerings.
On-Demand Parenting Classes
The SPC team is partnering with the Stanford Center for Health Education to develop self-paced online modules for our parenting topics that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
Managing Challenging Behaviors is available now.
More classes coming soon!
Upcoming Classes, Groups, and Webinars
Stanford Parenting Center
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Following the deadly stabbing of a student on a North Bay school campus, Dr. Mari Kurahashi, psychiatrist with Stanford Children's Health, discusses how events like these affects the minds of children, the signs of trauma, and steps parents can take to support their children.