Dr. Tanya M. Coakley discusses how culturally competent parenting can provide minority children an environment that respects and nourishes their sense of self. learn more ...
Understanding the Antecedents, Bias/Behaviors and Consequences of children's challenging behaviors can help parents anticipate, successfully handle, and help change angry outbursts. learn more ...
Age Group: 5 to 10
Publishing Date: 2008
SKU: DVD7328
The growing number of children diagnosed with autism increases the possibility that foster, kinship, and adoptive parents will face this challenging disability. This course examines the core deficits of autism: communication, social skills, and play. learn more ...
Age Group: 1 to 18
Publishing Date: 2008
SKU: DVD7327
Terror. Panic. Dread. We all have fears. Sometimes these worries can obstruct daily life -- especially in foster and adoptive children. Often it's a simple fear of the dark, but it can be something more complex like Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia. learn more ...
Working With Birth Parents I: Visitation explains why birth parent visits are both turbulent and disturbing; yet it emphasizes why they are nevertheless beneficial to the child. learn more ...
Age Group: 3 to 18
Publishing Date: 2007
SKU: DVD778
A practical and realistic book for those who care for, treat, and live with emotionally disturbed foster, kinship, or adopted children who historically have often been the victims of abuse and/or neglect. learn more ...
This course explores diagnosis and treatments of ADHD, ADD, and ODD, and discusses steps to help children with these challenging behaviors. learn more ...
More and more children are growing up in kinship foster care; they are being raised by relatives and families in the absence of their parents. learn more ...