Enrollment is underway for the new Foster Parent College Advanced Parenting Workshop on Anger. The workshop explores the causes of anger in children, the types of anger behaviors children exhibit, and builds skills for understanding and coping with anger. The three-week workshop begins September 1.
Anger is one of the most common and most challenging behaviors foster, adoptive and kinship parents cope with. Many children in care have suffered abuse, neglect, multiple moves, or a host of other disruptive events. While their anger may be a natural response to what they have experienced, it can be hard to live with for the resource family and for the child.
After the initial introductions and videos, workshop enrollees study the case of a foster family coping with an angry child. Through interactive exercises and discussion board activities, participants work together to develop an action plan for the case family. Dr. Richard Delaney and his teaching assistants will monitor and guide the participants through the process.
Dr. Rick Delaney is the clinical director of a community-based residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. For many years, Dr. Delaney has served as a consultant to Casey Family Programs and other foster care and adoption agencies across the county. He is the author or co-author of several books in the area of foster care and adoption, including Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning, and Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory and Troubled Transplants:
Advanced workshops bring together parents from all over the world to work together to on a challenging issue they all struggle with. Workshops begin the first Tuesday of each month and span a three-week period. Completing the class yields 6 training hours. FPC training units are accepted by over 1,000 agencies and organizations throughout the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
For more information or to enroll, visit fosterparentcollege.com or call 800-777-6636.
Foster Parent College is a division of Northwest Media, Inc. of Eugene, OR. Northwest Media also produces Vstreet.com, a comprehensive life skills website for youth in transition, and SocialLearning.com, an online store with over 1,300 products for the social services field.
