On occasion I provide presentations and trainings to agencies and organizations that promote child mental health. Trainings typically involve topics surrounding my speciality areas of adoption, parent-child attachment, early childhood development, and child maltreatment. Below is a list of the presentations I’ve given over the past fifteen years.
- The Impact of Institutionalization / Orphanage Care on Children: Current Findings, 04/20/18
NC Children’s AIDS Network, Durham, NC - The Impact of Institutionalization / Orphanage Care on Children: Current Findings, 11/04/16
Triangle Child and Adolescent Resources (Triangle CAAR), Raleigh, NC
- Play Therapy with Children, 3/25/13
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Presentation provided to graduate counseling students in practicum - Parent-Child Attachment: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment, 04/20/11
Licensed Professional Counselor’s Association of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC - Parent-Child Attachment: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment, 11/29/11
Triangle Pastoral Counseling, Raleigh, NC - Narrative Therapy and Therapeutic Lifebooks for Foster and Adopted Children, 05/21/11
North Raleigh Foster Care Parents, Raleigh, NC - Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Adopted Children and Families, 05/20/11
Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC
Full day in-service staff development training - Parent-Child Attachment: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment, 12/08/10
Wake County School Counselor’s Association / North Regional Group, Raleigh, NC - Hosting the Older, Orphaned Child, 06/24/10
Hope Community Church, Raleigh, NC - Attachment and Identity in the Transracial Adoptee, 04/17/10
Transracial Families of the NC Triangle, Raleigh, NC - Using Theraplay® to Facilitate Healthy Parent-Child Attachment, 04/15/10
National Association of Social Workers, N.C. Chapter, Raleigh, NC - Mental Health Work with Adopted Children and Families, 03/22/10
North Carolina State University / Department of Social Work, Raleigh, NC
Guest speaker for graduate course: Social Work Practice with Children & Adolescents - Parent-Child Attachment: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment, 01/22/10
Jewish Family Services, Durham, NC - Facilitating Healthy Attachment after Adoption , 01/11/08
Forest Hills Baptist Church, Adoption Support Ministry, Raleigh, NC - Using Theraplay® to Facilitate Healthy Parent-Child Attachment, 11/02, 11/06, & 12/14/07
Wake AHEC Young Child Mental Health Series, Raleigh, NC - Ethical Issues for Practicing Licensed Professional Counselors, 02/16/07
Licensed Professional Counselor’s Association of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC - Play Therapy Techniques for Young Children, 10/05/06
Wake AHEC Young Child Mental Health Series, Raleigh, NC - Creating and Maintaining a Successful Private Practice, 08/25/06
Licensed Professional Counselor’s Association of North Carolina, Apex, NC - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, and Suicide Ideation in Adult Trauma Survivors
and Children’s Response to Trauma and Crisis, 05/15/04
North Carolina Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Raleigh, NC - Parent-Child Attachment Issues in Internationally Adopted Children, 02/21/04
Frank Adoption Society, Raleigh, NC - Parent-Child Attachment Issues in Internationally Adopted Children, 11/01/03
Frank Adoption Society, Raleigh, NC - Assessing and Treating Parent-Child Attachment Issues, 02/21/03
Licensed Professional Counselor’s Association of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC - Parent-Child Attachment Issues in Internationally Adopted Children 11/16/02
Frank Adoption Society, Raleigh, NC - Parent-Child Attachment Issues in Internationally Adopted Children, 08/10/02
Frank Adoption Society, Raleigh, NC - Assessing and Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children, 02/21/02
Wake County Human Services, Child Mental Health In-Service Training, Raleigh, NC - Assessing and Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children, 01/16/02
Haven House Services, Inc., Raleigh, NC - Child Behavioral Management Strategies, 07/19, 08/16, 09/13, 09/23, 10/09, & 10/11/01
Family and Youth, Inc. Durham, NC - Assessing and Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder in Foster Children, 06/27/01
Wake County Human Services, Foster Care and Child Protective Services, Raleigh, NC