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LIST OF TRAINING TOPICS

Clinical Workshop Topics - Re Children, Adolescents, and Families
Workshop Topics for Staff Working with Teen Parents
Clinical Workshop Topics - Re Adults
Clinical Workshop Topics - Re Adolescents and Adults
Workshop Topics for Schools
Management Topics
Workshop Topics for Parents and Foster and Adoptive Parents
Keynotes

Clinical Workshop Topics - Re Children, Adolescents, and Families

• Grief and Loss in the Lives of Children, Adolescents, and Families
• Grief and Loss in the Lives of Children and Adolescents: Exploring Various Types of Loss Youth in Placement Experience and Creative Interventions to Help Youth Heal
• Exploring Grief and Loss Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care
• Grief and Loss in Families: When New Losses Occur, When Old Losses Resurface
• Grief and Loss: Working with Terminally Ill and Grieving Youngsters
• Caring for the Caregiver: Working with Terminally Ill and Grieving Youth and Their Families
• Ordinary Moments, Extraordinary Lives: How Children Make Meaning of Illness and Suffering
• Speaking the Unspeakable: Working with Children Living with Life-Threatening Illness and their Families
• When a Parent is Ill: Strategies for Supporting Children
• "Let's Not Talk About It": Preparing Children to Cope with the Death of a Parent
• Using Drawings as Healing Tools
• The Impact of Placement on Children of Different Ages: A Developmental Perspective
• Youth Aging Out of the System: Best Practices
• Treating Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents
• Childhood and Adolescent Depression
• Childhood Depression: Working with Kids Under Twelve
• Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Early Onset Bipolar Disorder in Children
• Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
• Fostering Resilience in Girls: Giving Voice to Despair and Hope
• Girls in Crisis: Nourishing Strengths to Build Connection
• High Risk Behaviors in Youth: Self Injury, School Violence and Firesetting
• Social Skills Interventions for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Distinguishing Between ADHD and Bipolar Disorder
• Psychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Attention-Deficit Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adolescents
• Distinguishing ADHD from Child Abuse/PTSD
• Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Behavioral Interventions
• Managing Parental Anger: Reducing the Potential for Abuse
• Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
• Tourette’s Syndrome
• Learning Disabilities in Children and Adolescents
• The Spectrum of Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Rett’s Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
• Asperger’s Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disability: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
• Introduction to Neuropsychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Identification of Typical Psychological Disorders in the Academic Environment: Affective Disorders (Depression and Bipolar Disorder), Anxiety Disorders (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and PTSD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Psychotropic Medication for Childhood and Adolescent Disorders
• Intervention Strategies for Lying/Stealing, Temper Tantrums, and School Refusal
• Intervention Strategies for Sleep Problems, Enuresis/Encopresis, and Excessive Computer Use
• Impact of Domestic Violence on Children and Strategies for Intervention
• The Impact on Children and Adolescents of Witnessing Domestic Violence: Behavioral and Learning Difficulties
• Addressing Attachment Issues to Break the Cycle of Family Violence
• Reunifying Families in Cases of Domestic Violence
• Reunifying Families in Cases of Incest
• Reunifying Families in Cases of Incest and Domestic Violence
• Clinical Intervention with Young Children Affected by Domestic Violence
• Visitation Issues in Domestic Violence Cases
• Clinical and Ethical Dilemmas in Family Violence
• Shelter From the Storm: Clinical Assessment and Intervention with Young Children Who Witness Violence
• Shelter From the Storm: The Role of Daycare in Helping Children Affected by Violence
• Forensic Interviewing of Children for Suspected Sexual Abuse: Enhancing Neutrality and Accuracy
• What Do You Say When Talking with Children About Sexual Abuse?
• The Anatomy of Silence: How to Prevent Community Silence Regarding Sexual Predators
• Assessing and Treating Family Dynamics in Cases of Incest
• The Impact of Trauma on Child Development and Behavior
• Impact of Trauma on Young School Age Children
• Connecting with the Unattached: Enhancing Daily Life In-Care for Kids with Attachment Issues
• Utilization of Touch in a Residential Setting: Benefits, Hazards, and Guidelines
• Developing Attachments with Children and Adolescents Who Have Histories of Abuse and Neglect
• Attachment, Trauma, and Neurodevelopment: Rethinking Our Understanding and Treatment of Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
• Attachment, Trauma, and Conduct Disorder in Youth: Brain-Based Treatment Interventions
• Treating Sexual Behavior Problems in Developmentally Delayed Adolescents
• Evaluation and Treatment of the Juvenile Sex Offender
• Attachment Difficulties in Juvenile Sex Offenders: Developing Treatment Programs and Interventions that Facilitate Attachment
• Sibling Incest
• Trauma and Dissociation in Childhood and Adolescence
• Dealing with Juvenile Firesetters
• Limit Setting and Anger Management with Children and Adolescents
• Addressing the Behavioral Problems of Children and Adolescents with Serious Mental Health and Trauma Issues
• Youth with Conduct Disorders and Oppositional and Defiant Behaviors
• Raising Gentle Kids in a Violent World
• Learning to Play; Playing to Learn
• Good Toys/Bad Toys: Young Children and Play
• The Effects of Violent Toys and Media on Young Children
• Assessment and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
• Emotional and Developmental Impact on Victims of Physical Abuse, Neglect, or Sexual Abuse
• Surviving Family Abuse: Creating Self-Esteem
• Forensic Assessment of Child Maltreatment
• Use of Expert Testimony in Childhood Maltreatment Cases
• Attachment Theory and Child Maltreatment: Applications for Child Protection and Forensic Settings
• Conducting a Family Assessment in Child Maltreatment Cases
• Uses of Supervised Visitation in Child Maltreatment Cases
• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
• Unusual Forms of Child Abuse: Munchausen Syndrome, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Burns, and Female Perpetrators
• Selective Mutism
• Conducting Child Custody Evaluations – High Conflict Families, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse Allegations
• Eating Disorders: Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Adolescents
• Eating Disorders, Sexual Abuse, and Substance Abuse
• Frozen Communication: Working with Families with Eating Disorders
• Angry, Oppositional, and Depressed Adolescents: Creative Treatment Approaches
• Assessment of Risk of the Potentially Violent Juvenile Client
• Child and Adolescent Risk Assessment: Suicide and Violence
• Violence, Psychiatric Disorders, and Substance Abuse in Youth
• Working with Children and Adolescents: Nurturing Resilience and Managing Resistance
• Angry and Resistant Children and Adolescents: Effective Strategies for Fostering Motivation and Resilience
• Angry and Difficult Children and Adolescents: A New Approach for Promoting Self-Control, Self-Discipline, Resiliency, Hope, and Motivation
• Adolescent Development: Dealing with the Difficult Issues
• Beyond the Child: Working with ADD/ADHD in the Family
• Diagnoses and Letter Salad: What the Non-Clinician Needs to Know
• Using Strength-Based Assessments and Motivational Interviewing for Success
• Assessing Families Using a Strength-Based Approach
• Working with Families Using a Strength-Based Approach
• Reactive Attachment Disorder: Controversies in Diagnosis and Treatment
• Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth
• I Can’t Stand You; You Can’t Stand Me, But We Gotta Live Together: Helping Families and Teachers Survive Adolescence
• Fostering Self-Esteem in Children and Adolescents
• Effective Communication with Children and Adolescents
• Children and Divorce
• Motivational Interviewing for the Hard-to-Reach Client
• Helping People Change: Motivating, Engaging, and Attracting Clients into Treatment
• Adolescent Substance Abuse
• Working with Parents of Substance Abusing Youth
• Adolescent Dual Diagnosis (Mental Illness/Addiction): Clinical Dilemmas in Assessment and Treatment
• Substance Abuse Treatment of Youth with ADD and Learning Disabilities
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Prevention and Intervention
• Impact of Parental Mental Illness on the Child
• Clinical and Ethical Challenges with High Risk Behaviors
• Setting Boundaries with Clients: The Fine Line Between Friendly and Friend
• Boundary Issues in Treatment: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
• Use and Misuse of Psychological Testing in Child Maltreatment and Child Custody Cases
• Confidentiality and Testimonial Privilege for Mental Health Practitioners
• Recordkeeping in Light of HIPPA
• Current Ethical Issues for Mental Health Clinicians Serving Children and Families
• Current Ethical and Legal Issues for Clinicians
• Ethics and Law for the Practicing Psychologist
• Forensic Mental Health: Principles and Practices
• Conducting Mental Health Evaluations for Courts and Legal Proceedings
• Courtroom Testifying Skills
• Children and Spirituality
• How to Play and See Humor in Life: Stress Management in Human Services
• Fostering Our Own Resilience: Taking Care of Ourselves
• Compassion Fatigue: Taking Care of Yourself

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Workshop Topics for Staff Working with Teen Parents

• Attachment Issues for Teen Mothers: Causes and Consequences
• Managing the Anger of Teen Parents: Reducing the Potential for Abuse
• Distinguishing ADHD from Child Abuse/PTSD
• Addressing Attachment Issues to Break the Cycle of Family Violence
• Eating Disorders and the Pregnant and Parenting Teen

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Clinical Workshop Topics - Re Adults

• Constellations of Grief and Loss in Adults: When New Losses Occur, When Old Losses Resurface
• Grief and Loss: Working with Terminally Ill and Grieving Adults
• Caring for the Caregiver: Working with Terminally Ill and Grieving Clients
• Eating Disorders: Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Compulsive Overeating
• Treating the Clinical Triad: Eating Disorders, Sexual Abuse, and Substance Abuse
• Working with Clients Diagnosed with an Eating Disorder and a Borderline Personality Disorder
• Frozen Communication: Working with Families and Eating Disorders
• College Women at Risk for Eating Disorders
• Diabetes and Eating Disorders
• Assessment of Risk of the Potentially Violent Adult
• Violence, Psychiatric Disorders, and Substance Abuse in Adult Clients
• From Victim To Survivor: Treatment of PTSD in Adulthood
• Repairing Attachment Bonds in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Neglect
• Practical Crisis Management in Treatment
• Trauma and Group Work
• Group Work with Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Relational and Multimodal Approach
• Healing the Whole Person: Attending to Mind, Body, and Spirit with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
• What is Truth: Exploring the Complexity of Traumatic Memory
• Multiple Personality and Dissociation in Adult Survivors: Strategies for Effective Treatment
• The Use of Dreamwork in Clinical Practice
• How to Modify Treatment When Your Client Has Neuropsychological Deficits
• Working with Developmentally Disabled Clients
• Managing Challenging Behaviors of People Experiencing Disabilities: Developmental Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injury, or Chronic Mental Illness
• Skill Assessment and Job Matching
• Advanced Survival Skills for Job Coaches
• Supervising Community-Based Vocational Services
• Best Practices in Working with Dually Diagnosed (Mental Illness/Mental Retardation) Clients
• Treating Sexual Behavior Problems in Developmentally Delayed Adults
• Women and Self Esteem: Creative Strategies for Survival and Change
• Women’s Mental Health: Treating Depression and Anxiety Disorders
• Stages of Development in Women’s Groups: A Relational Model
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Adults with a Borderline Personality Disorder
• Beyond the DBT Basics: Therapy with Adults with a Borderline Personality Disorder
• PTSD in Adulthood: Integrating DBT, Cognitive- Behavioral Treatment, Relational Model and Stages of Change
• Interviewing Alleged Offenders in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
• Interviewing the Non-Offending Parent
• Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders
• Evaluation and Case Management of Adult Sexual Offenders
• Surviving Family Abuse
• Female Perpetrators: Assessment and Treatment
• Domestic Violence: An Overview
• Clinical and Ethical Dilemmas in Family Violence
• Working with Latino and Other Immigrant Fathers/Men in Cases of Domestic Violence
• Working with Refugee Men in Cases of Domestic Violence
• Why Do Men Batter?
• Batterers Intervention: Does it Really Work?
• Working with Abusive Men
• Investigation of Domestic Violence Cases
• Police, Prosecution, and Probation in Domestic Violence Cases
• Police Involvement/Victimless Prosecution Issues in Domestic Violence Cases
• Collaborative Community Response to Domestic Violence
• Enhancing Victim Safety By Increasing Perpetrator Accountability in Domestic Violence Cases
• Batterers as Fathers
• Why Do Victims of Domestic Violence Do the Things They Do?
• Visitation Issues in Domestic Violence Cases
• Domestic Violence in the Workplace
• Stalking
• Standing in Their Shoes: Decision-making for the Consumer with Mental or Physical Disability - Guardianship, Conservatorship, Rogers Hearings, Health Care Proxies (geared for mental health and social service providers who work with clients who may be or have been found to be legally incompetent)
• Confidentiality and Testimonial Privilege for Mental Health Practitioners
• Recordkeeping in Light of HIPPA
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Mood Disorders in Adulthood: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Treating the Phases of Bipolar Disorder in Adulthood
• Attachment and Personality in Adulthood
• Treating Violence and Psychiatric Disorders in Adulthood
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adults: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
• Anxiety and Panic Disorders
• Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Challenges
• Treating People with Borderline Personality Disorders in Residential Settings
• Understanding People with Borderline Personality Disorders: Managing Countertransference in the Treatment Relationship
• People with Borderline Personality Disorder or Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Finding Coping Skills Other Than Substance Abuse
• Psychotropic Medication for Adult Clients: A Guide for the Non-Physician Practitioner
• Treating Adults from Dysfunctional Families: Individual Cognitive Therapy with a Family of Origin Focus
• Motivational Interviewing for the Hard-to-Reach Client
• Helping People Change: Motivating, Engaging, and Attracting Clients into Treatment
• Helping People Change: Dealing with Hostility and Resistance
• Dual Diagnosis (Mental Illness/Addiction): Treatment and Relapse Prevention
• Substance Abuse and Mood Disorders in Adulthood: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults with ADD and Learning Disabilities
• Chemical Dependency and Trauma
• Slips, Slides, and Sobriety: Dealing with Resistance, Relapse, and Readiness to Change
• Matching Clients to Treatment in Addiction
• How the Revised ASAM Patient Placement Criteria Can Help You Improve Programs, Payment, and Outcomes
• Meeting of the Minds: Combining Therapy and Self-Help
• Working Beyond the 12 Steps
• Solution-Focused Intervention and Time-Effective Treatment with Substance Abusers
• Motivational Interviewing and Harm Reduction with Dually Diagnosed Adults
• Motivational Enhancement: Working with Substance Abusers
• Relapse Prevention and Recovery Maintenance with Substance Abusers
• Psychiatric Issues in Addiction Treatment
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Women, Personality Disorders, and Substance Abuse: Dependent, Histrionic, and Borderline Personality Disorders
• Women and Addiction
• Batterer Intervention: Does It Really Work? What Substance Abuse Providers Need to Know
• Keeping the Behavioral Health Team Healthy: Communication, Conflicts, and Coping
• Outcomes and Performance in Behavioral Health
• Supervision in the Current Healthcare Environment
• Treatment in a Managed Care Environment: Balancing Cost and Quality
• Focused Group Therapy in a Managed Care Environment
• Boundary Issues in Treatment: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
• Boundaries and Countertransference in Treatment
• Clinicians, Countertransference, and Vicarious Traumatization
• Clinical and Ethical Challenges with High Risk Behaviors
• Current Ethical and Legal Issues for Clinicians
• Legal Issues in the Treatment of PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Forensic Mental Health: Principles and Practices
• Conducting Mental Health Evaluations for Courts and Legal Proceedings
• Forensic Mental Health: Principles and Practices
• Courtroom Testifying Skills
• Ethics and Law for the Practicing Psychologist
• Basic Counseling Skills
• Compassion Fatigue: Taking Care of Yourself

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Clinical Workshop Topics - Re Adolescents and Adults

• Working with Youth and Adults: Strategies to Foster Hope and Resilience in Ourselves and Others
• Grief and Loss in Families: When New Losses Occur, When Old Losses Resurface
• Grief and Loss: Working with Terminally Ill and Grieving Clients
• The Constant Shadow: Living with Chronic Illness
• Caring for the Caregiver: Working with Terminally Ill and Grieving Clients
• Treating Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents and Adults
• Eating Disorders: Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Adolescents and Adults
• Treating the Clinical Triad: Eating Disorders, Sexual Abuse, and Substance Abuse
• Assessment of Risk of the Potentially Violent Client
• Violence, Psychiatric Disorders, and Substance Abuse in Youth and Adults
• Borderline Personality Disorder: Controversies in Diagnosis and Treatment
• Facilitating Attachments Across the Lifespan
• Substance Abuse Treatment of Clients with ADD and Learning Disabilities Across the Lifespan
• Dual Diagnosis (Mental Illness/Addiction): Treatment and Relapse Prevention
• Motivational Interviewing for the Hard-to-Reach Client
• Helping People Change: Motivating, Engaging, and Attracting Clients into Treatment
• Understanding and Using the Dual Diagnosis Criteria (Co-Occurring Mental and Substance-Related Disorders) of the Revised Second Edition ASAM Patient Placement Criteria (ASAM PPC-2R)
• Dual Diagnosis: Clinical Dilemmas in Assessment and Treatment
• Skill-Building and Advanced Application of the Revised ASAM Criteria (PPC-2R), Including Criteria for Co-Occurring Mental and Substance-Related Disorders (Dual Diagnosis)
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Prevention and Intervention
• Attention Deficit Disorder Across the Lifespan
• Standing in Their Shoes: Decision-making for the Consumer with Mental or Physical Disability - Guardianship, Conservatorship, Rogers Hearings, Health Care Proxies (geared for mental health and social service providers who work with clients who may be or have been found to be legally incompetent)
• Confidentiality and Testimonial Privilege for Mental Health Practitioners
• Recordkeeping in Light of HIPPA
• Current Ethical and Legal Issues for Clinicians
• Clinical and Ethical Challenges with High Risk Behaviors
• Conducting Mental Health Evaluations for Courts and Legal Proceedings
• Forensic Mental Health: Principles and Practices
• Courtroom Testifying Skills
• Ethics and Law for the Practicing Psychologist
• Boundary Issues in Treatment: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
• Psychotropic Medication: A Guide for the Non-Physician Practitioner
• Basic Counseling Skills
• Self-Care Survival Strategies for Compassion Fatigue: Beyond the Basics
• Compassion Fatigue:Mindful Approaches to Self Care
• The Tigers are Getting Closer: Confronting Trauma, Grief, Loss and Stress with Creativity
• Mending Broken Hearts: Using Expressive Therapies and Creative Strategies with Youth and Adults
• Compassion Fatigue: Taking Care of Yourself

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Workshop Topics for Schools

• Children with Behavior Problems: Responding to the Challenge
• Early Detection of Childhood Disorders: Just a Phase or a Diagnosable Condition?
• Grief and Loss in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
• What About Me?: A Grief and Loss Curriculum for Toddlers to Teens
• When a Parent is Ill: Strategies to support Children
• When a Parent/Loved one is Dying: Strategies to Support Children
• Raising a Child/Teen with a Chronic Illness
• How to Talk with Children about Death and Dying
• Helping Students to Cope with a Death in their School Community
• Supporting Grieving Students
• Addressing Attachment Issues to Break the Cycle of Family Violence
• The Impact of Trauma on Child Development and Behavior
• Impact of Trauma on Young School Age Children
• Identifying and Assessing Psychological Maltreatment of Children
• The Impact on Children and Adolescents of Witnessing Domestic Violence: Behavioral and Learning Difficulties
• Children Who See Too Much: Supporting Young Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Challenges for Educators
• Understanding the Impact of Violence/Trauma on Children and How to Help Them Deal With it in a School Setting
• Surviving Family Abuse: Creating Self-Esteem
• Creating a Classroom Environment to Support Young Children Who Experience Violence
• Shelter From the Storm: The Role of Daycare in Helping Children Affected by Violence
• Attachment, Trauma, and Neurodevelopment: Rethinking Our Understanding and Treatment of Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
• Attachment, Trauma, and Conduct Disorder in Youth: Brain-Based Treatment Interventions
• Youth with Conduct Disorders and Oppositional and Defiant Behaviors
• Angry and Oppositional Adolescents: Creative Approaches
• Limit Setting and Anger Management with Children and Adolescents
• Dealing School Violence
• Managing Difficult Classroom Behavior
• Crisis Prevention and Management with Youth: Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behavior and Behavioral Crises
• Assessment of Risk of the Potentially Violent Youth
• Violence, Psychiatric Disorders, and Substance Abuse in Youth
• Child and Adolescent Risk Assessment: Suicide and Violence
• Risk Assessment and Management for Potentially Violent Juveniles
• Dealing with Juvenile Firesetters
• Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders: Intervention Strategies
• Creating a Positive Bus Culture
• Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Promoting and Maintaining Positive Student Behavior on the School Bus
• Addressing the Behavioral Problems of Children and Adolescents with Serious Mental Health and Trauma Issues
• Suicidal Behavior in Adolescence
• Trauma and Dissociation in Childhood and Adolescence
• Working with Children and Adolescents: Nurturing Resilience and Managing Resistance
• The Self-Esteem Teacher
• The Angry and Resistant Student: Strategies for Fostering Motivation, Hope, and Resilience
• I Can’t Stand You; You Can’t Stand Me, But We Gotta Live Together: Helping Families and Teachers Survive Adolescence
• Adolescent Development: Dealing with the Difficult Issues
• Fostering Self-Esteem in Children and Adolescents
• Effective Communication with Children and Adolescents
• Raising Gentle Kids in a Violent World
• Learning to Play; Playing to Learn
• Good Toys/Bad Toys: Young Children and Play
• The Effects of Violent Toys and Media on Young Children
• Psychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Attention-Deficit Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adolescents
• Educating Children with ADD/ADHD or LD: Strategies for Building Motivation, Self-Esteem, Hope, and Resilience
• Distinguishing ADHD from Child Abuse/PTSD
• Distinguishing Between ADHD and Bipolar Disorder
• Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Behavioral Interventions
• ADHD and Classroom Strategies
• Motivation, ADHD, and Learning
• Brain Functions and Connections to Learning Styles (K-12)
• The Working Brain in the Classroom
• Psychopharmacology and Its Effect on Human Behavior and Learning
• Selective Mutism
• Childhood Depression: Creative Approaches
• Adolescent Depression: Creative Approaches
• Depression in Teens: Strategies of Support at School and Home
• Managing Your Child’s Anxiety
• Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Early Onset Bipolar Disorder in Children
• Bipolar, Anxiety, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Youth
• Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
• Tourette’s Syndrome
• Learning Disabilities in Children and Adolescents
• Identification of Typical Psychological Disorders in the Academic Environment: Affective Disorders (Depression and Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety Disorders (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and PTSD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Psychotropic Medication for Childhood and Adolescent Disorders
• Intervention Strategies for Lying/Stealing, Temper Tantrums, and School Refusal
• Intervention Strategies for Sleep Problems, Enuresis/Encopresis, and Excessive Computer Use
• The Spectrum of Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Rett’s Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
• Asperger’s Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disability: Differential Diagnosis and Intervention
• Introduction to Neuropsychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Diagnosis and Intervention
• Eating Disorders: Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Adolescents
• Building and Valuing Diversity
• Teaching in the Multi-Cultural Classroom
• Children and Divorce
• Working with Families Under Stress
• The Impact of Family Change and Stress on Children
• Conflict Prevention and Resolution
• Enhancing Resiliency in Children & Adolescents: Using Strength-Based Creative Strategies to Build Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence and Brain-Based Strategies: Creative Tools for Educators
• Creating Safe Schools for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth
• Substance Abuse in the Family: The Impact on the Classroom
• Adolescent Substance Abuse
• Fostering Resilience in Girls: Giving Voice to Despair and Hope
• Learning Styles for Teachers
• Writing as Self-Expression and Discovery
• Fostering Creativity in Children
• Parenting Young Children: A Developmental Perspective
• Fostering Home-School Communication
• Working with Neurologically Impaired Students
• How to Partner with Parents: Strategies for Fostering the Identification and Inclusion of the Kindergarten Child with Special Needs
• Beyond the Child: Working with ADD/ADHD in the Family
• Diagnoses and Letter Salad: What the Teacher Needs to Know
• How to Play and See Humor in Life: Stress Management in Teaching
• Fostering Our Own Resilience: Taking Care of Ourselves
• Compassion Fatigue in Teaching: Survival Strategies
• Issues in Young Children’s Development: Sexual Behaviors in the Classroom
• Sexual Development in School Age Children: What to Expect in the Classroom
• Teaching Relaxation Skills to Children and Teens
• Adolescent Development: Parenting Issues
• Adolescent Development: Strategies to Support your Students
• Supporting Self-Esteem in your Students
• Running Groups for Youth

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Management Topics

• Supervisory Skills for Human Service Managers
• Supervising the Difficult Employee
• From Worker to Manager: Skills for the Supervisor
• Leadership Styles
• Leadership Skills for Managers and Supervisors
• Leadership Skills for Female Managers and Supervisors
• Team Building Skills
• Effective Communication Skills
• Hiring and Firing
• Motivating and Retaining Staff with Non-Cash Rewards
• Employee Recognition Strategies
• Constructive Feedback
• Progressive Discipline
• Managing the Non-Performer
• Time Management
• Stress Management
• Running Effective Meeting
• Effective Interviewing Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Conflict Management Skills
• Strategic Planning
• Managing Change
• Managing Stress in a Changing and Uncertain World
• Exploring Creative Employee Transitions
• Emotional Intelligence: A Major Component of Effective Leadership
• Domestic Violence in the Workplace
• The Interplay of Culture, Class, Race, and Ethnicity: Moving Beyond Cultural Competence

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Workshop Topics for Parents and Foster and Adoptive Parents

• Grief and Loss in the Lives of Children, Adolescents, and Families
• Grief and Loss in the Lives of Children and Adolescents: Exploring Various Types of Loss Youth in Placement Experience and Creative Interventions to Help Youth Heal
• Exploring Grief and Loss Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care
• Grief and Loss in Families: When New Losses Occur, When Old Losses Resurface
• Limit Setting and Anger Management with Children and Adolescents
• Youth with Conduct Disorders and Oppositional and Defiant Behavior
• Raising Gentle Kids in a Violent World
• Good Toys/Bad Toys: Young Children and Play
• Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Living with a Child with a Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Autism, Asperger’s Disorder, Rett’s Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
• Attention Deficit Disorder: A Guide for Parents
• Navigating the Twists and Turns of Adolescence: A Journey of Parent and Child
• Adolescent Development: Dealing with the Difficult Issues
• Whose Life is It Anyway?: The Adolescent’s or the Parent’s?
• Fostering Self-Esteem in Children and Adolescents
• Effective Communication with Children and Adolescents
• Working with Children and Adolescents: Nurturing Resilience and Managing Resistance
• Raising Resilient Children
• Angry and Difficult Children and Adolescents: A New Approach for Promoting Self-Control, Self-Discipline, Resiliency, Hope, and Motivation
• I Can’t Stand You; You Can’t Stand Me, But We Gotta Live Together: Helping Families Survive Adolescence
• Helping Families Understand Adolescence
• The Five Keys to Successful Parenting
• The Role of Medication in Working with Children and Adolescents with ADHD and PTSD
• The Role of Medication in Working with Children and Adolescents with Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Conflict Prevention and Resolution
• The Impact of Family Change and Stress on Children
• Parenting Under Stress
• Parenting Young Children: A Developmental Perspective
• Parenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth
• Substance Abuse in the Family: Recognizing and Repairing the Hurt
• The 6 C’s of Healthy Parenting
• Sleep Problems
• Enuresis/Encopresis
• Excessive Computer Use
• Eating Disorders in Adolescence
• Dealing with Lying and Stealing in Children and Adolescents
• Temper Tantrums
• Dealing with School Refusal
• Working with Parents of Substance Abusing Youth
• Psychotropic Medication: A Guide for Parents
• Fostering the Autonomy of the Adoptee

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Keynotes

• Preventing Violence-Preserving Attachments: Strengthening Communities to Preserve Attachments and Protect Our Children
• Getting What Kids Need in Tough Times
• Understanding and Managing Youth Violence
• Children Who See too Much: Supporting Young Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
• Understanding the Impact of Violence/Trauma on Children and How to Help Them Deal With It in a School Setting
• Half the House—A Memoir: Overcoming Sexual Abuse—A Story of Love, Reconciliation, and Personal Triumph
• Unlearning Helplessness: Thinking About, Talking About and Responding to Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Come Celebrate My First Birthday: An Inspirational Foster Care and Adoption Story
• A Relationship with a Birth Father
• The Harris Racial Identity Theory: Reflections of a Transracial Adoptee
• Divorce: Psychological and Legal Issues
• Working with Children and Adolescents: Nurturing Resilience and Managing Resistance
• Angry and Difficult Children and Adolescents: A New Approach for Promoting Self-Control, Self-Discipline, Resiliency, Hope, and Motivation
• The Angry and Resistant Student: Strategies for Fostering Motivation, Hope, and Resilience
• Making Connections: Developing Attachments with Children and Adolescents Who Have Histories of Abuse and Neglect
• Grief and Loss in Working with Children, Adolescents, and Their Families
• The Tigers Are Getting Closer: Confronting Trauma, Loss, and Death with Creativity
• Replenishing Your Spirit
• Sexual Abuse, Serious Mental Illness, and the Therapist
• Accountability: It Begins From Within
• Emotional Intelligence: A Major Component of Effective Leadership

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COMMENTS ABOUT OUR IN-HOUSE PROGRAMS

For almost 20 years, I have been the Director of a continuing education workshop series in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Connecticut Medical School. We have a reputation for offering high quality workshops in the mental health field.

I have contracted with Community Program Innovations (CPI) to use their speakers on many occasions. Each presenter has received excellent ratings from our attendees and comments from the participants attest to the high quality and depth of knowledge conveyed during the workshops. Participants often request that a CPI speaker return to offer another workshop.

Working with CPI has made planning our series much easier. I am assured that each and every CPI speaker is going to present at the advanced level required for our audience. CPI speakers have a significant depth of knowledge in their areas of expertise, are eloquent speakers, and are able to meet the needs of a diverse audience. Their workshops receive "excellent" ratings. All CPI presenters use quality audio-visuals, comprehensive handouts and bibliographies, appropriate use of Questions and Answers and at times, provide a very unique experiential teaching environment.

I would highly recommend using CPI in planning a continuing education program. It makes the process easier and assures an outstandingly high quality presentation.

Marlene Gavens, Director, Continuing Medical Education Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center

The Merrimack School is an alternative school with programs geared for students in the 6th through 12th grades. Our students present with a variety of emotional and behavioral needs, as well as with various learning disabilities. Dr. Steve Berk worked with us in developing an in-service training for our teachers that addressed Bi-Polar Disorder, Depressive Disorders, Asperger's Syndrome and Specific Learning Disorders. Dr. Berk met the challenge of presenting clinical issues to a non-clinical group with ease!

Our teachers learned a great deal and utilized his suggestions in their classrooms. We also invited Dr. Berk to present at our first alternative school conference held last year. Again, Dr. Berk worked with us in designing a presentation geared towards teachers and other alternative school staff members that was informative and extremely interesting. Dr. Berk is a talented speaker who meets the needs of his audiences and leaves them wanting his presentation to continue!

Working with Dr. Berk and Community Program Innovations has been a great experience and we hope to utilize their services in the future.

Emma Weiss, LICSW, Program Manager, The Merrimack School

I can't remember any program that involved so many educators that was evaluated this positively. A great success! Thank you so much. Dr. Dan Jacobs was an excellent presenter.

Robert Milley, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Sudbury Public Schools