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Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges.
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Dr. Rick Delaney discusses how an understanding of the ABCs of behavior can help parents ward off angry outbursts.
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Dr. Robert Nickel addresses the many challenges parents of children with autism face: social and communication deficits, and common medical problems.
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Viewers will learn to Identify symptoms and causes of anxiety disorders in children, emotional symptoms, steps to take & treatment options.
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This course explores diagnosis and treatments of ADHD, ADD, and ODD, and discusses steps to help children with these disorders.
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Healthy and unhealthy attachment, the emotionally promiscuous RAD child, the hyper-vigilant RAD child, RAD & other diagnoses are discussed in this course.
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This course examines self-injury, high-risk behavior, suicidal behavior, reckless accident proneness, and hair pulling.
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Topics covered in this course include shoplifting, stealing based on envy or revenge, kleptomania, and stealing from loved ones.
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Searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, and running to street crime.
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Wetting as an emotional outlet, wetting as a self-defense, classic daytime or nighttime wetting, soiling and smearing feces, constipation and withholding stools and discussed in this course.
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This course examines obsessive sexual behavior, sexual behavior with siblings, seductive behavior towards adults, and public masturbation.
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Viewers will learn about roaming, nightmares and night terrors, sleeping alone, and depression.
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Common behaviors addressed in this course include getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, and getting others in trouble.
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Fire-setting behaviors such as silent but deadly, impulsive, disturbed, accidental, and curious are examined in this course.
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This course covers temper tantrums, assaultive behavior towards other children, rage towards the mother, and erratic or unpredictable anger.
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Causes of and strategies for dealing with stealing and hoarding food, gorging, refusing certain foods, and anorexia are examined.
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Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, and who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities.
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Covers the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life.
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Dr. Robert Nickel and Susan Edelstein, M.S. discuss the issues and challenges faced by parents who care for substance-exposed infants, including the effects of legal and illegal drugs, multiple substance abuse, working with the child’s professional team, and successful parenting strategies.
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Michael F. Quinn, M.A., uses a professional child care worker’s approach to child safety, providing foster parents with effective supervision strategies and tools for collecting background information, making in-home observations, and making supervision adjustments.
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Dr. Tanya M. Coakley discusses how culturally competent parenting can provide minority children an environment that respects and nourishes their sense of self.
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Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss as it impacts foster children, birth parents and foster caregivers.
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A pre-service course designed for individuals interested in caregiving which focuses on child maltreatment. Learn about the characteristics, symptoms and reporting standards for child maltreatment. Caution: contains graphic images.
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This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections.
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This course helps foster parent couples improve communication with each other, resolve conflicts in their relationship, and promote intimacy.
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Roles and responsibilities, entering a new school, working with the school staff, special education, and parent advocacy are discussed in this course.
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What to expect before, during, and after visitation with birth parents and strategies for helping the foster child transition back to their foster home are examined in this course.
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Viewers will learn about family feuds, allegiance to birth parents, distance and defiance with kinship family.
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Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as parenting techniques.
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This course discusses setting limits and behavior contracts as positive parenting techniques.
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Strategies for using time-out, privilege removal, and assignment of extra chores to manage difficult behavior are discussed
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Developing safety and treatment plans are discussed in the context of meeting state regulations and the individual child's needs.
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Advanced Parenting Workshops blend video segments with interactive online activities so parents from all over the world can work together, without regard for time zones or individual schedules.
Workshops feature:
- No scheduled meetings; work any time, 24/7
- Log out and return any time to continue your course
- 2 new sessions per week for 3 weeks
- Total time commitment of 2-3 hours per week
- In-depth exploration of common behavior challenges
- Concrete steps for coping
Completion of a workshop yields 6 training credits and a Certificate of Completion.
Participants learn about the types of lying and why children lie. Then they look at the case of a 16-year-old boy who lies constantly, and at his foster parents' reaction. With the help of Dr. Richard Delaney and his teaching assistants, participants work together to develop an action plan for the boy's foster parents, with concrete steps for coping with and curbing the boy's chronic lying.
Learning objectives:
- understand the four types of lying
- be able to recognize behavior clues for identifying types of lying
- understand six common reasons for lying
- learn concrete steps for preventing lying
- learn how to emotionally support a child who lies
- learn how to develop and implement an action plan for coping with lying
Schedule:
 Feb 7, 2012
 Go to your Personal Home Page now and enroll
Anger may be a natural response to what youth in care have experienced, but it can be hard to live with for the resource family and for the child.
In this workshop, participants learn about the types and components of anger. A case study is introduced, and the workshop participants collaborate to identify the components of an outburst and how it is influenced by the child's biases and beliefs. The participants work together to develop an action plan for the case family, with guidance and assistance by Dr. Richard Delaney and his teaching assistants.
Learning objectives:
- understand the ABCs (components) of anger
- understand the types of anger outbursts
- be able to identify warning signs for serious anger problems
- know the difference between unhealthy and healthy anger
- know when to seek help
- learn how to develop and implement an action plan for coping with anger
Schedule:
Feb 7, 2012
Go to your Personal Home Page now and enroll
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Designed for agency staff and social workers - Richard Delaney, PhD addresses issues of family dynamics aimed at increasing placement stability and improved lives for children in care. This course is eligible for NASW CEUs.
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Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, and who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities.
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Covers the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life.
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Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss as it impacts foster children, birth parents and foster caregivers.
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A pre-service course designed for individuals interested in caregiving which focuses on child maltreatment. Learn about the characteristics, symptoms and reporting standards for child maltreatment. Caution: contains graphic images.
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This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections.
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Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as parenting techniques.
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This course discusses setting limits and behavior contracts as positive parenting techniques.
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Strategies for using time-out, privilege removal, and assignment of extra chores to manage difficult behavior are discussed
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Developing safety and treatment plans are discussed in the context of meeting state regulations and the individual child's needs.
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Pre-Service Classes
- Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused
- Child Development
- Understanding Behavior in Foster Children
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In-Service Classes
- Lying (updated)
- Sleep Problems (updated)
- It's My Marriage
- The Role of Mandated Child Abuse Reporters
- The Foster Home Investigation Process
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