This 2008 training for foster parents focuses on parenting traumatized children and includes information and techniques any parent can apply to creating a strong relationship with a child leading to emotional maturity and healthy self esteem.
Attachment Theory is the theme that runs through child welfare: from child to parent, worker to supervisor, client to therapist. This training focuses on those relationships that determine safety, risk, treatment, and progress. The trainer offers examples for cultural competence in engaging children through ages and stages of healing. Emphasizing attachment, grief, and loss changes the focus of child welfare work from behavior-based interventions to services targeting safety, well-being, and permanence. Attachment is the template for all future relationships and can be developed, strengthened, and repaired to foster conscience, character, pro-social behavior, empathy and self-esteem.
Bibliography
Bowlby, John, A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development.
California Child Welfare Clearinghouse, www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org
Davis-Maxon Allison, M.S., MFT, www.kinshipcenter.org
Hughes, Daniel A., Building the Bonds of Attachment
Hughes, Daniel A., Facilitating Developmental Attachment
Keck, Gregory C., Ph.D. & Kupecky, Regina M., LSW, Parenting the Hurt Child
Keck, Gregory C., Ph.D. & Kupecky, Regina M., LSW, Adopting the Hurt Child
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth, M.D., On Death and Dying
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, www.nctsnet.org
Perry, Bruce D., M.D., Ph.D., The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Perry, Bruce D., M.D., Ph.D., www.childtrauma.org
Siegel, Daniel, M.D.,, The Developmental Brain
Siegel, Daniel, M.D., Parenting From the Inside Out
Siegel, Daniel, M.D., The Mindful Brain
Michael A. Jones, LCSW is a therapist and trainer in San Diego. Michael was licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences December 15, 2004. He has worked since 1999 with traumatized children and their families. Michael trains parents, case workers, students, and clinicians in the areas of attachment, adoption, parenting, solution focused treatment, and trauma informed care.
Michael works in private practice and as a trainer for the Southern California Academy for Professional Excellence, the Bay Area Academy, Grossmont College, and San Diego Community College. He also provides independent training and supervision toward LCSW licensure. Michael was an administrator for a foster family agency and two group homes for nearly three years. He was voted undergraduate field instructor of the year by San Diego State University School of Social Work in 2006.
Michael earned his masters degree in social work from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. Before becoming a social worker, Michael was a television reporter, anchor, producer, and editor for 15 years in Illinois, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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