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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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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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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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Explores typical child development, developmental domains and stages, temperament and goodness of fit, and the effects of abuse and neglect on a child’s health and behavior.
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Explores the foster home investigative process, Plans of Corrective Action, and the role of foster care investigators.
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Explores the role and challenges mandated child abuse reporters face during the reporting process and offers strategies for helping insure subsequent investigations are not compromised.
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Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face.
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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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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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These expanded courses offer parents a fun way to learn about difficult behavior challenges. Participants share their ideas and work together, via online discussion boards, to develop strategies for changing the behaviors.
Workshops feature:
- no scheduled meetings; work when you want, 24/7
- log out and return at your convenience
- begin a workshop any time
- 30 days to complete
Completion of a workshop yields 6 training credits and a Certificate of Completion.
In this workshop, participants learn about the types and components of anger. A case study is introduced, and participants collaborate to identify the components of an outburst and how it is influenced by the child's biases and beliefs. They then 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
- learn the types of anger outbursts
- identify warning signs for serious anger problems
- distinguish between unhealthy and healthy anger
- know when to seek help
- develop and implement an action plan for coping with anger
 Go to your Personal Home Page now and enroll
Workshop 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 parents, with concrete steps for coping with and curbing the boy's chronic lying.
Learning objectives:
- understand the four types of lying
- recognize behavior clues for identifying types of lying
- understand six common reasons for lying
- learn how to emotionally support a child who lies
- develop and implement an action plan for coping with lying
Go to your Personal Home Page now and enroll
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Designed for agency staff and social workers - Rick Delaney, Ph.D. addresses issues of family dynamics aimed at increasing placement stability and improved lives for children in care.
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Explores the process and challenges of moving from foster care to adoption and offers insight and advice for helping adoptive family members through those challenges.
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Explores the benefits and challenges of building a working relationship between foster and primary families, and offers strategies for developing respectful, positive communication.
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Explores adding a foster child to the family and offers insight into how to preserve the family structure and reduce stress caused by a changing dynamic.
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Explores problematic behavior in foster children and how foster parents can better understand the purpose of a child’s behavior through careful observation.
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Explores typical child development, developmental domains and stages, temperament and goodness of fit, and the effects of abuse and neglect on a child’s health and behavior.
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Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face.
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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
- Cultural Issues in Placement
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In-Service Classes
- Sleep Problems (updated)
- It's My Marriage
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