Kids, Adolescents and Families
Families in Crisis: Empowering Parents with Strategies To Help the High Risk Adolescent Let’s face it; therapists who specialize in working with teens and their parents know all too well the out-of-control teens being brought in for therapy by parents who have been riding the roller coaster with them.
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Loss in the Aftermath of Separation and Divorce: Helping Children and Adults Find Renewal,
Recovery and Healing
The impact of separation and divorce is profound and significant. The trauma of marital loss deeply affects all members of the family. For these clients, holding themselves together and surviving can be an enormous challenge. Read More>
Making the Connection: Adolescent Substance Abuse and Trauma
Trauma has been shown to adversely affect many of the neurobiological systems responsible for cognitive development and regulation of emotions and behavior. Read More>
The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation
This workshop begins with a look at trauma and dissociation in children and adolescents from a historical perspective and covers the physiological effects of trauma on the brain and related impairments in chronically traumatized children. Read More>
The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children and Families
In this workshop, participants will increase their knowledge about how interpersonal violence and abuse affects the parent’s ability to parent in a healthy, connected manner. Read More>
Therapeutic Challenges and Creative Solutions with Traumatized and Dissociative Youth
This all day workshop will address how to work with therapeutic challenges that arise in the work with children and teens who suffer from the effects of complex trauma. Read More>
When it’s Not the Brady Bunch: Assessing and Strengthening your Clients’ Parenting Skills
In this workshop participants will learn how to use the context of an office, school or home visit to observe parent-child interactions and assess for healthy vs. dysfunctional parenting styles. Read More>
