Chemical Dependency:

• A Tough Pill to Swallow: An Overview of Prescription Drug Abuse
• Against the Odds; An Overview of Gambling Addiction
• It’s Not the Brady Bunch: Family Effects of Addiction
• Don’t Get In A Huff: An Overview of Inhalant Abuse
• Double Jeopardy: Dual Diagnosis, Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness
• Growing Like A Weed: The Marijuana Epidemic
• An Overview of Bath Salts & Synthetic Drugs: More than a Calgon Moment
• Sobering Thoughts: Substance Abuse in Adolescence
• Stages of Change: A New Paradigm in Substance Abuse Counseling
• Standing on Thin Ice: Methamphetamine Use and Child Welfare
• An Overview of Co-Dependency: The Need to be Needed
• When the Cradle Rocks: The Consequences of Prenatal Drug Exposure

Clinical Issues:

• 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
• Child’s Play: Therapeutic Use of Play for Abused and Neglected Children
• Diagnosis Unknown: A Layman’s Guide to Mental Health Diagnosis
• Family Strategic Therapy: It’s All Relative
• Going Two Extremes: An Overview of Childhood Bipolar Disorder
• Going Viral: Safety in Cyberspace
• Healing the Hunger: Recognition and Treatment of Eating Disorders
• Handle with Care: Working with the Traumatized Child
• I Can’t Forget It: PTSD in Children
• Male Call: Working with Men in the Child Welfare System
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Love Thy Self
• No Longer Alone: An Overview of Autism
• Lesson in Loss: Children and Grief
• Love Thy Self: Working with Narcissistic Personality Disorders
• Searching for Happily Ever After: An Overview of Depressive Disorders
• Surviving the Tug of War: The Impact of Divorce on Children
• Talk to the Hand: Working with the Oppositional Defiant Child
• The Broken Bond: Reactive Attachment Disorder
• The DSM 5: The Dawning of a New Era in Mental Health Diagnoses
• The First Cut Is The Deepest: An Overview of Self-Injurious Behaviors
• The Power of Forgiveness in Counseling: Water Under the Bridge
• The Worry Web: Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• What do We do with Axis II? An Overview of Personality Disorders
• Working with the Oppositional Defiant Child: Talk to the Hand
• Just What the Doctor Ordered: Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

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
• Bruises and Boozes: Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse

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
• Sibling Sexual Abuse: It’s All Relative
• The Boundary Project: Working with Sexually Reactive Children

Stress Management:

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