Behavior with a Purpose

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(November 2024) Behavior with a Purpose

Behavior problems shown by children-in-care can act as a stubborn barrier to the creation of healing relationships to foster, kinship and adoptive caregivers and helping professionals.  This workshop will focus on the “whys” of complex behavioral/emotional challenges.  When these challenges are seen only as “problematic”, and not seen as having purpose for the child, frustration and hopelessness can be experienced by youth, parents and helping professionals alike. However, when the purposes of behavior problems can be understood within the child’s life experience, supportive relational interventions can be developed. In this workshop Dr. Rick Delaney and Charley Joyce will focus on understanding six purposes or functions that behavior problems serve.  Some of these arise from the child’s exposure to past trauma. Discussion will focus on sample behavior problems (e.g. lying, hoarding, defiance, cruelty to animals, etc.) and possible interactions to consider.

Dr. Rick Delaney is an internationally known clinical psychologist, speaker and consultant to foster, kinship, and adoptive parents and programs. Dr. Delaney has given several hundred presentations throughout the United States, Canada, and the Bermuda Islands. He is a consultant to Foster Parent College (www.fosterparentcollege.com), an on-line resource for foster, kinship and adoptive parents. [READMORE] This site is endorsed by many child welfare agencies in the U.S. and Canada, and it is rated at the California Evidence Based Clearinghouse in Child Welfare. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and is the author (or co-author) of: Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning, and Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory, A 3-D View of Foster, Kinship, and Adopted Children (with James M. Kagan, M.D.)

Charley Joyce, MSW, has worked as a social worker for approximately 45 years. He began his career as a VISTA volunteer, has worked as the clinical director of a psychiatric facility, as an outpatient therapist, supervisor of outpatient therapists, a foster care caseworker, clinical director of foster care services and as the owner of his private practice. He has taught as an adjunct instructor on both a graduate and undergraduate level. Charley is published as a co-author and contributing author on a variety of child welfare topics. He has developed online trainings for the Foster Parent College. Charley is a husband, father and has three grandchildren, one of which a much loved adopted youth.

Watch time: 103 minutes

Eligible Certificate of Completion time: 105 minutes

This webinar will expire on December 4, 2024.