Behavior Management

Explores autism, how to identify autism in children, and how to support children with autism and encourage their strengths and abilities.

Explores common eating and food issues for children in care, including hoarding food and excessive eating, eating food from unhealthy sources, overweight and obesity, and picky eating.

Explores fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, how to identify them, and how parents can support children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol. [Also available in Spanish]

Explores escalation, its causes, and strategies for de-escalation. Before taking this course, it is strongly recommended that trainees take Trauma-Informed Parenting. [Also available in Spanish]

Explores commercial sexual exploitation of children, what it is, and how parents can recognize signs that a child is being sexually exploited. [Also available in Spanish]

Explores common mental health issues for children entering care, how disorders are diagnosed and treated, and how parents can work with professionals to support their children's mental health needs. [Also available in Spanish]

This Advanced Parenting Workshop addresses problematic sexual behavior in children in care. With the help of Dr. Silovsky and the teaching assistant, participants learn how to determine whether a child's sexual behavior is problematic and how to respond to a child's sexual behavior.

This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores social and physical aggression in children. With the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants learn how to support children with aggressive behavior.

Explores common physical health issues for children entering care and how parents can collaborate with health care providers to support their children's medical needs. [Also available in Spanish]

This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores non-suicidal self-injury and other forms of self-injurious behavior. With the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants develop an action plan to decrease or stop the self-injury.

Explores how parents can care for a child while being sensitive to his or her past traumatic experiences. [Also available in Spanish]

Examines the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, from fearful cooperation to defiance, including the zone in the middle of the spectrum called self-assertion.

Covers fire play and fire setting and the differences between the two behaviors.

This Advanced Parenting Workshop introduces the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, then explores how trauma can affect a child’s ability to cooperate.

This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores the common reasons for taking things. With the help of Dr. Rick Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants develop an action plan.

Explores common reasons for taking things, including experimentation, intellectual disability, trauma history, and social or psychiatric problems.

Examines four types of sleep problems in children: fears about sleeping alone, frequent waking and roaming, nightmares and night terrors, and sleep problems and depression.

This Advanced Parenting Workshop provides an in-depth study of lying. Participants work together to create an action plan for coping with lying.

Common behaviors addressed in this course include getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, and getting others in trouble.

Dr. Rick Delaney discusses how an understanding of the ABCs of behavior can help parents ward off angry outbursts in 5- to 10-year-old children.

Searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, and running to street crime.