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