May 22, 2017

Training

Various training available upon request. Below is a list of past and current trainings and workshops:

Trainings provided by Clinical Director, Terry Ellis, and accompanied / assisted by Wolf Pack members with relevant experience.

Terry’s Curriculum Vitae

  • Addressing Attachment Issues to Break the Cycle of Family Violence
  • Adolescent Chemical Dependency: Current Perspective and Treatment Approaches
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety and Panic Disorders
  • Aspergers Syndrome
  • Aspergers Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disability: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Attachment Issues for Teen Mothers: Causes and Consequences
  • Attachment, Trauma, and Conduct Disorder in Youth: Brain-Based Treatment Interventions
  • Attachment: Understanding the Value of Healthy Attachment
  • Attention Deficit & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
  • Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adolescents
  • Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders
  • Avoiding Power Struggles with Kids
  • Awareness of Self
  • Basic Counseling Skills
  • Behavior Coaching
  • Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents
  • Behavioral Basics
  • Boundaries and Good Practices with Youth
  • Bullies: Intervention Strategies
  • Child Abuse Detection and Reporting
  • Child Development: Adolescent
  • Child Development: Early Childhood
  • Child Development: Latency Age
  • Child Development: Zero to Five
  • Childhood and Adolescent Depression
  • Childhood Depression: Working with Kids Under Twelve
  • Childhood Developmental Disabilities – Overview Cognitive Behavioral Treatment
  • Communicating with Biological Families of Foster Children Conflict Resolution
  • Creating a Positive Bus
  • Culture Dealing With Conflict Effectively
  • Dependent, Avoidant, and Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Distinguishing ADHD from Child Abuse/PTSD
  • Child and Adolescent Risk Assessment: Suicide and Violence
  • Children and Divorce
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Clinical Intervention with Young Children Affected by Domestic Violence
  • Conduct Disorder in Youth: Brain-Based
  • Contemporary Issues in Sexuality & Youth
  • Counter Transference
  • Creating a Classroom Environment to Support Young Children Who Experience Violence
  • Crisis Communication
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Crisis Management
  • Cross-Cultural Issues in Child and Adolescent Development
  • Cultural Diversity: Introduction & Advanced
  • Dealing with School Violence
  • Depression, Recognizing Suicide signs, & Other Kids Mental Health Issues
  • Developing Attachments with Children and Adolescents Who Have Histories of Abuse and Neglect
  • Developing Clinical Competence in a Multicultural Context
  • Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
  • Diagnosis in Understanding Youth
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence: An Overview
  • Domestic Violence: Dealing with Kids Who Have Been Abused
  • Dual Diagnosis: Developmental Disabilities & Emotional Disorders
  • Dual Diagnosis (Mental Illness/Addiction): Treatment and Relapse Prevention
  • Eating Disorders
  • Eating Disorders: Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Adolescents
  • Eating Disorders and the Pregnant and Parenting Teen
  • Eating Disorders, Sexual Abuse, and Substance Abuse
  • Early Emotional Abandonment
  • Educational Issues Relating to Foster Children
  • Effective Communication Skills
  • Effective Communication with Children and Adolescents
  • Effective Termination with Clients
  • Effects of Fetal Exposure to Alcohol and Chemicals
  • Emotional and Development Impact on Victims of Physical Abuse, Neglect, or Sexual Abuse
  • Emotional Disorders of Childhood and Adolescents: Overview
  • Enuresis/Encopresis
  • Exploring Grief & Loss Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care
  • Facilitating Attachments Across the Lifespan
  • Facilitated Emotional Problem Solving
  • Female Perpetrators: Assessment and Treatment
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Prevention and Intervention
  • Foster Children and Transition to Adulthood
  • Fostering Creativity in Children
  • Fostering Emotional Intelligence
  • Fostering Self-Esteem in Children and Adolescents
  • Good Communication with Youth
  • Grief & Loss, Separation and Bonding Trauma
  • Grief & Loss in the lives of Children, Adolescents, and Families
  • Grief &Loss in Families: When New Losses Occur, When Old Losses Resurface
  • Helping Families and Teachers Survive Adolescence
  • Helping Kids Deal w/ Violence in the Community, Home, Streets
  • Home Visits: Best Practices
  • Helping Students to Cope with a Death in their School Community
  • Homelessness as a Factor in Child Development
  • How to Forgive in Difficult Situations
  • How to Include Parents as Part of the Treatment Team
  • How to Talk with Children about Death and Dying
  • How to Work with Family Systems
  • Identification of Typical Psychological Disorders in the Academic Environment: Affective Disorders (Depression and Bipolar Disorder), Anxiety Disorders, (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and PTSD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • Impact of Placement on Children of Different Ages: A Developmental Perspective
  • Increase Positive Behavior & Decrease Negative Behavior
  • Interplay of Culture, Class, Race, and Ethnicity: Moving Beyond Cultural Competence
  • Interventions to Help Youth Heal
  • Intervention Strategies for Lying/Stealing, Temper Tantrums, and School Refusal
  • Intervention Strategies for Sleep Problems, Enuresis/Encopresis, and Excessive Computer Use
  • Introduction to Neuropsychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Learning Disorders in Children & Adolescents
  • Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Behavioral Interventions
  • Living with a Child with a Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Autism, Asperger’s Disorder, Rett’s Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
  • Managing Difficult School Behavior
  • Managing Self-Harm Among Foster Care Youth
  • Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
  • Non- Verbal Learning Disabilities
  • Parenting Education: Positive Discipline
  • Parenting Skills
  • Personality Disorders – Part 1: Histrionic, Antisocial, Schizoid, and Paranoid
  • Personality Disorders – Part 2: Dependent, Narcissistic, Obsessive-Compulsive, Avoidant, and Schizotypal
  • Positive Behavior Management
  • Professional Boundaries: Understanding Our Own When Working with Clients
  • Psychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Attention-Deficit Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Psychosocial Assessment
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder: Controversies in Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Recognizing the Signs of Sexual Abuse in Children
  • Recognizing & Treating Drug & Alcohol Related Problems in Clients
  • Reunifying Families in Cases of Domestic Violence
  • Reunifying Families in Cases of Incest
  • Reunifying Families in Cases of Incest and Domestic Violence
  • Risk Assessment and Management for Potentially Violent Juveniles
  • Role of Daycare in Helping Children Affected by Violence
  • Selective Mutism
  • Self Injurious Behaviors
  • Sexual Development in School Age Children: What to Expect in the Classroom
  • Sibling Incest
  • Strength-Based Work with Families
  • Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults with ADD and Learning Disabilities
  • Substance Abuse Treatment of Youth with ADD and Learning Disabilities
  • Successful Engagements Strategies with Families
  • Supporting Grieving Students
  • Teaching Children Forgiveness
  • The Impact on Children and Adolescents of Witnessing Domestic Violence: Behavioral and Learning Difficulties
  • The Impact of Trauma on Child Development and Behavior
  • The Impact of Trauma on Young School Age Children
  • The Spectrum of Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Retl’s Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
  • Theories of Moral Development
  • Tourette’s Syndrome
  • Treating Sexual Behavior Problems in Developmentally Delayed Adolescents
  • Treating Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents
  • Treating Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents and Adults
  • Treatment Planning
  • Understanding Children Who Are Placed in Out-of-Home Placement
  • Various Types of Loss Youth in Placement Experience & Creative Interventions to Help Heal
  • Visitation Issues in Domestic Violence Cases
  • Women, Personality Disorders, and Substance Abuse: Dependent, Histrionic, and Borderline Personality Disorders
  • Working with Children and Adolescents: Nurturing Resilience
  • Working with Developmentally Disabled Clients
  • Working with Difficult Families
  • Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth
  • Working with Groups
  • Working with Parents of Substance Abusing Youth
  • Working with Youth in Residential Treatment
  • Working with Youth in Schools
  • Working with Youth Who Have Challenging Behaviors
  • Youth Aging Out of the System: Best Practices
  • Youth with Conduct Disorders and Oppositional and Defiant Behaviors