Foster Care Trainings

Chemical Dependency:

It’s Not the Brady Bunch: Family Effects of Addiction
Sobering Thoughts: Substance Abuse in Adolescence
Double Jeopardy: Dual Diagnosis, Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness
Stages of Change: A New Paradigm in Substance Abuse Counseling   NEW!
Standing on Thin Ice:  Methamphetamine Use and Child Welfare
NEW!
When the Cradle Rocks: The Consequences of Prenatal Drug Exposure  NEW!
 
Clinical Issue:
A-D-D: What Does it Add up to? An Overview of Attention Deficit Disorders
A Matter of Life and Death: Suicide Assessment
Buried Beyond Belief: An Overview of Hoarding Behaviors  NEW!
Child’s Play: Therapeutic Use of Play for Abused and Neglected Children
Diagnosis Unknown: A Layman’s Guide to Mental Health Diagnosis
Going Two Extremes: An Overview of Childhood Bipolar Disorder
Going Viral: Safety in Cyberspace  NEW!
Healing the Hunger: Recognition and Treatment of Eating Disorders
Finding the Eye in a Hurricane: Working with the Traumatized Child
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Child and Adolescent Psychophamacology  NEW!
Lessons in Loss: Children and Grief
Male Call: Working with Men in the Child Welfare System
No Longer Alone: An Overview of Autism
Surviving the Tug of War: The Impact of Divorce on Children  NEW!
The Broken Bond: Reactive Attachment Disorder
The First Cut is the Deepest: An Overview of Self- Injurious Behaviors  NEW!
The Worry Web: Obsessive Compulsive Disorders with Children and Adolescents  NEW!
 
Crisis Intervention:
Calming the Storm: Crisis Intervention in Child Welfare
 
Cultural Diversity:
Going out on a Limb: Working with Individuals with Disabilities
Home Grown Child Welfare: Working with Families in the Appalachian Culture
 
Domestic Violence:
Beyond the Bruises Part I: An Overview of Domestic Violence
Beyond the Bruises Part II: Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
 
Education:
Navigating the Education System
 
Emotional Abuse:
But Words can Always Hurt me: The Impact of Emotional Abuse on Children
 
Parenting: 
Parenting with Purpose: Alternatives to Punitive Discipline
 
Sexual Abuse:
Wounded Warriors: The Treatment of Sexually Abused Males
The Boundary Project: Working with Sexually Reactive Children

Stress Management:
When You’re Making a Living, Instead of a Life: Stress Management & Burnout Prevention
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