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Professional Trainings

2007 

Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents 

Child Trauma with Dr. Bruce Perry

Parents and Professionals as Emotional Tutors for Children

Psychological Treatment of Children with Trauma-Attachment Problems; Intermediate Level 32 hours with Daniel Hughes, PhD 

 2006 

Law and Ethics in Counseling 

Fostering Changes: Strategies for helping adoptive parents cope with their children’s emotional/behavioral problems

Cross Cultural Counseling  

Psychological Treatment of Children with Trauma-Attachment Problems; Beginning Level 32 hours with Daniel Hughes, PhD 

 ATTACh 2006 Conference 

  •    Developmental Attachment-Based Psychotherapy for Children
  •    Attachment, Trauma, and Grief Therapy Protocol 
  •    Parenting From the Inside Out 
  •    Medication Management for Children w/ Attachment Trauma Histories     
  •   Corrective Attachment Therapy Across the Life Span 
  •    Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Techniques for Attachment and Trauma Focused Therapy 

2005 

Aging and Long Term Care

Attachment Focused Skill Building Part II

 Emotional Intelligence Applied 

Lying, Stealing, and Manipulating: What to do with difficult behaviors 

ATTACh 2005 Conference

  •       Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: An attachment focused family therapy 
  •       One Child’s Story
  •       Attention, Attunement, and Attachment: Theraplay and DDP 
  •       Assessment of Children with Traumatized Attachment Disorders 
  •       Beyond Holding: Where are attachment based interventions going? 
  •      Techniques to Augment Therapy
  •     Preparing Parents for Attachment Therapy 

Effective Strategies for Severe Behaviors in Foster and Adopted Children 

Therapists and Foster Adoptive Parents Working Together 

Building Families: Adoption in the Present Day 

2004 

Healing the Hurting Child: The Necessary Dimensions of Child-Centered Play Therapy

Practices and Principles of Clinical Supervision: The Basics 

Practices and Principles of Clinical Supervision: Law and Ethics 

Practices and Principles of Clinical Supervision: Advanced Issues 

Assessing and Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder

Bipolar and Other Major Mood Disorders in Youth and Adulthood

2003

Spousal or Partner Abuse

Ethical and Legal Issues  

2001-2003

UCSD Extended Studies Play Therapy Certificate Program (150 hours) 

  • Structured Play Therapy 
  • Sandplay: A Therapeutic Approach 
  • Play Therapy, Art Therapy, Assessment of Traumatized Children & Adolescents
  • Play Therapy with Attachment Disorders
  • Play Therapy with Dissociative Disorders
  • Play Therapy with A.D.D. and Disruptive Behavior Disorder
  • Play Therapy with Injured and Ill Children
  • Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults
  • Play Therapy across Cultural and Ethnic Groups
  • Play Therapy and Assessment I
  • Play Therapy and Assessment II
  • Uses of Play Therapy with Learning Disabilities
  • Therapeutic Powers of Play
  • Toys and Their Uses
  • Play, Art, Stories, and Verbal Therapy
  • Legal and Ethical Issues in Working with Children 
  • Child-Centered Play Therapy
  • Child Relationship Enhancement Therapy (Filial Therapy) 
  • Psychoanalytic Play Therapy
  • Gestalt Play Theray
  • The Art of Supervision and Instruction of Play Therapy
  • Family Play Therapy

2002

Children's Hospital 2002 Conference: Responding to Child Maltreatment

  • Should Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child Maltreatment Under the Law? 
  • The Next Step: Deeper Healing of Victimization Consequences
  • Listening to the Trauma Stories: Managing the Impact of Interviewing
  • What’s New in Child Abuse Literature for Mental Health Practitioners
  • Transpersonal Approaches to Working with Maltreated Youth
  • Impact of Domestic Violence on Children's Development
  • Treatment for Protective Parents and Children Who Have Lived in Violent Homes 
  • Assessing and Treating Dissociative Children 

 2001-2002

 San Diego State University Field Instructer Training

  • Adult Learning Styles, Assessment and Development 
  •  Differential Strategies of Supervision, Parallel Process in Field Instruction and Training 
  • Process Recordings and Educational Based Recordings 
  • The Evaluation Process and Termination Issues
  • Practice Interviews and the Interview Process 

2001 

Using Play Therapy & the Expressive Arts to Help Grieving Children and Families Part II

Using Play Therapy & the Expressive Arts to Help Grieving Children and Families-Part I

2nd Annual Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Conference 

 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues and HIV/AIDS Ethics and Clinical Practice

Children’s Hospital 2001 Conference: Responding to Child Maltreatment

  • Trauma Treatment Using Play Therapy Basic Techniques 

  •  Trauma Treatment Using Play Therapy Advanced Techniques

  •  The Dilemmas of Mothers and Children Affected by Domestic Violence

  •  Helping Teens Heal   

  • Children From Alcoholic and other Drug Addicted Families

  • Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Children with Sexual Behavior Problems 

  •  New Developments in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse 

  •   Understanding and Treating Self-Abusive Behaviors

1999

Child Abuse and Neglect Licensure Workshop

 Overview of Psychopharmacology with Children and Youth