August 25, 2009

Eugene, OR - The popular FosterParentCollege.com® Advanced Parenting Workshop on Lying has been updated, with more interactivity and some new material. Enrollment is open for the three-week workshop which begins September 1.

Lying is a frustrating behavior for resource parents to deal with. In this workshop, Dr. Richard Delaney identifies six possible causes for lying and then works with viewers to understand the source of lying in a 16-year-old boy. Then Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistants guide viewers through the process of working 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.

Dr. Delaney is the clinical director of a community-based residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. For many years, Dr. Delaney served as a consultant to Casey Family Programs and other foster care and adoption agencies across the county. He is the author or co-author of several books in the area of foster care and adoption, including Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning, and Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory and Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Troubled Foster and Adopted Children. He is the principal investigator of FosterParentCollege.com®, and helped to develop an online training series for Portland State University's adoption-competent mental health certificate program.

Advanced Parenting Workshops begin the first Tuesday of each month and span a three-week period. Completing the class yields 6 training hours and costs $30. FPC training is accepted by over 1,000 agencies and organizations throughout the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

FosterParentCollege.com® is a division of Northwest Media, Inc. of Eugene, OR. Northwest Media also produces VStreet.com, a comprehensive life skills Web site for youth, and SocialLearning.com, an online store with over 1,300 products for the social services field.

For more information about this article, contact Lisa Siegle at press@northwestmedia.com.