Raising a Kid Who Can: Simple Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Adaptability and Emotional Strength

About Catherine McCarthyHeather TedescoJennifer Weaver

Catherine McCarthy MD is a Duke-trained child and adolescent psychiatrist with nearly 25 years of clinical experience. In addition to being the keynote speaker for several major conferences she lectures regularly to parents and students in nearly every school system both public and private in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Heather Tedesco PhD is a licensed Applied Psychologist with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology.? She has a private practice in McLean Virginia where she works exclusively with parents to make parenting less stressful more effective and more enjoyable. She is the go-to parenting resource for many Washington DC-area pediatric psychological testing and therapy practices. Jennifer Weaver LCSW has been rated as one of the Best Child Therapists in the area in Washingtonian magazine. Along with her therapy practice she also provides workshops and training to mental health professionals schools (faculty student and parent groups) and the larger community. Ms. Weaver is the founder of Helix a separate intensive program for kids to help prevent the need for inpatient or residential treatment set to open this fall. This program has the direct support of colleagues and mentors at McLean Hospital in Boston Anna Freud Centre in London and Yale Child Study Center in New Haven.