Series: Parenting Practices & Discipline Strategies that Support Positive Child Development

The goal of this three-part series of professional development webinars is to provide information to early childhood caregivers and program staff about how to help parents address challenging behaviors of young children and identify discipline strategies that promote positive social development and emotional wellbeing. The webinars will focus on practical, research supported, strategies for preventing problems and effectively addressing challenging behaviors and provide participants information and resources to share with parents. View Part 1. View Part 3.

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Kirsten Ellingsen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor and Director of the HIPPY USA National Research Center at USF. In this role she is responsible for leading the design of a national research agenda and strategy for HIPPY USA, developing collaborative research partnerships, providing evaluation consultation, and securing external funding for conducting national research studies to build the national research center.

Dr. Ellingsen has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in school psychology. She has a masters degree in Human Development and Family Studies specializing in early childhood special education from Iowa State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology with a focus in early childhood at Nemours, A I duPont Hospital for Children. Kirsten has enjoyed providing psychological service within schools, homes, hospitals, preschools, and early intervention centers.

Dr. Ellingsen has clinical expertise as an early childhood pediatric psychologist and school psychologist and has enjoyed providing clinical psychological service within schools, homes, hospitals, preschools, and early intervention centers. She has over16 years involvement in child and family focused research. Prior to starting her doctoral program at UNC, Kirsten worked as a research analyst within a social science research firm in the greater DC area. She has worked on the design and implementation of various national evaluations and longitudinal studies including Early Head Start, Even Start, Head Start, and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS-B and ECLS-K) as well as conducted local program evaluations, statewide needs assessments, and international research using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health for children and youth (ICF-CY).

As a researcher-clinician, Dr Ellingsen is dedicated to work within the early childhood intervention field to promote the health and development of young children, particularly those with developmental disabilities and children living in poverty to maximize positive development and well-being and promote optimal family functioning.

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