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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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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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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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Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as parenting techniques.
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 Advanced Parenting Workshops explore parenting concepts in depth and teach problem solving skills. The workshops are self-paced, span three weeks, have a specific start and end date, and sessions are posted twice a week. Workshops begin with an audio/video presentation then focus on skill building with assignments, exercises and an online discussion board. With guidance by the instructor and teaching assistants, participants work together to create an action plan for the case study family.
Completion of a workshop yields 6 training credits and a Certificate of Completion.
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Dr. Rick Delaney discusses types and components of anger and guides workshop participants through development of an action plan for coping with anger.
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Dr. Rick Delaney guides participants through the types and causes of lying and identifies ways to cope with and curb lying.
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Similar in delivery to our Self-Paced Courses for parents but designed for social workers, Agency Staff Training Courses teach important skills for supporting youth and care givers. Each course is available in two versions. Participants who complete the CEU Credit version will earn Continuing Education Credits (CEU) from the National Association of Social Workers and receive a Certificate of Completion from Foster Parent College. Those who complete the non-CEU Credit version will receive a Certificate of Completion from Foster Parent College only.
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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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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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