Tricky Feedbacks
Supporting families through complexity, conflict, and unexpected outcomes.
Join us!
Date: Friday, October 23, 2026
Time: 9am – 12pm PT/12pm – 3pm ET
CEs: 3 CEs (APA)
Cost: $99
Earlybird until 10/9/26:
$74
Not all feedback sessions are created equal.
Othen, families come in open and ready to hear what we have to say. But at other times, we run into tricky situations, such as:
- Complex profiles
- Unexpected diagnoses
- Sharing ID or slow learner profiles
- Parental conflict
- Divorced families
- Grief and shame
- Cultural differences
- and more…
In this workshop, we’ll address these common challenges and give you the tools to make every feedback session supportive, helpful, and empowering for families.
Workshop Description
You did a thorough evaluation. Your report is airtight. You deliver the results…and the family pushes back, shuts down, or perhaps worst of all, nods politely, goes home, and never follows through on a single recommendation.
If this sounds familiar, you are not alone.
Research shows parents process and retain only a fraction of what we share at feedback sessions, and that’s before we add in the tricky pieces: grief, guilt, anger, denial, parents who disagree with us (or with each other), and cultural contexts that shape how our findings land.
Most of us have years of training in testing and interpretation, and almost none in what to do when families tell us we’re wrong.
This workshop is about addressing these challenges.
There are many challenges that make feedback sessions particularly tricky. Theses include:
- Complex profiles
- Unexpected diagnoses
- Sharing ID or slow learner profiles
- Parental conflict
- Divorced families
- Grief and shame
- Cultural differences
- and more…
In this workshop, we’ll address the most common challenges that get in the way of helpful, empowering feedback.
This intermediate-level workshop is designed for licensed psychologists, school psychologists, neuropsychologists, and trainees who conduct evaluations with children and families.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- List 3 strategies for creating an empowering feedback environment
- Describe strategies for sharing unexpected diagnoses, e.g. ID and autism
- Identify strategies for working with divorced or high-conflict families
- Create metaphors and visuals to help families understand their child’s diagnosis
- Create take-home materials to help families identify their next steps
Cost & Refund Policy
$99
For any of our workshops, if you would like to cancel your registration, please contact us at Liz@DrLizAngoff.com no later than 1 week in advance of the live workshop for a full refund. Refunds will be granted for recordings only if there is an error on our end and you are not able to view the course.
Presented by Dr. Liz Angoff
Liz Angoff, Ph.D., is a Licensed Educational Psychologist with a Diplomate in School Neuropsychology, providing assessment and consultation services to children and their families in the Bay Area, CA. She is the author of the Brain Building Books, tools for engaging children in understanding their learning and developmental differences as part of the assessment process.
Additional Information
Dr. Angoff is the publisher of the Brain Building Books and receives proceeds for these sales. She also has an affiliate relationship with Basiton and Reverb, any proceeds from which fund the Brain Building Book donation program which has donated nearly 1000 books to under-resourced communities, as well as the creation of the free materials on the Explaining Brains website. Dr. Angoff receives a free subscription to School Psych AI for the purposes of demonstration.
Neither SPAI, Bastion nor Reverb were involved in the creation of the materials for this workshop, and neither company has influence over how Dr. Angoff talks about their services. Dr. Angoff uses Bastion and Reverb in her own practice, so examples demonstrated during the workshop may use these platforms.
AI was used as a thought partner in organizing and structuring the content of this workshop in addition to interviews with psychologists, research, and curating case studies from current practice. All content has been reviewed and edited by Dr. Liz and she retains full responsibility.
Dr. Liz Angoff