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Training Topics

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao is available for in-service workshops, seminars, keynotes, and trainings on the following topics:

• Adolescent Issues in Adoption
• Adoption and the Sense of Self
• Adoption Educator's Training
• Adoptive Families: Treatment Needs, Program Development, and Social Policy Planning
• AIDS and adoption: a Legacy of Loss
• Art Therapy for Adopted Children
• Assessing Children and Parents for Adoption: Finding Families for Children
• Assessment
• Attachment: How to Enhance
• AWARE: Adoption With Awareness Reciprocity and Education
• Child-Centered Adoption from a Family Systems Perspective
• Clinical Consultation in Open Adoption: Case Presentation and Discussion
• Clinical Mediation in Open Adoption Cases and in Kinship and Guardianship
• Couples Issues: Pre-Adoptive and Early Adoption Challenges for the Couple
• Family Therapy with Adoptive, Foster, Step, Kinship, and Guardian Families
• Foster Adoption: Transitions and Transformations
• Group Work in Adoption and Foster Care
• Identity Issues in Adoption
• In Who's Best Interest?: A Look at the Treatment of the Adopted Child
• Kinship Issues
• Management Training: How We Re-Create the Structures We Work With
• Mediation Prior to Legal Involvement for Permanency Planning in the Best Interests of Children
• Myths, Lies, and Misconceptions
• Narrative Therapy with Complex Families
• Normative Crises in Development of Adoptive Families
• Older Child Placements: Domestic and International
• Open Adoption: What it is and What it isn't
• Opening Closed Adoptions
• Permanency Planning by Temporary Parties: Pitfalls and Plans
• Privacy versus Secrecy
• Professional and the Client: Where Do Your Biases Begin and How Do They Affect Your Work?
• Residential Treatment: Moving Towards Permanency
• Rethinking the Recruitment and Home Study Process to Fit Current Needs
• School Related Issues in Adoption
• Searching in Adoption: What it Means for Public Agencies and Private Professionals
• Sibling Issues in Adoption
• Single Parent Adoption
• Spiritual Journey of the Traumatized Child: Transitions and Transformations
• SUPERvision: A Workshop for Supervisors of Blended Family Cases
• Transracial and International Adoptions: Cultural Sensitivity

Center For Family Connections - 350 Cambridge Street - Cambridge, MA 02141 - Tel: 617-547-0909 / (800) KINNECT - Fax: 617-497-5952 - E-mail: cffc@kinnect.org