FASD/Prenatal Exposure: What This Means in Therapy, Casework and Home

Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA, Yolanda Comparan, MSW, Joanne Vesper, MSW

About the workshop

How do we set up the home to bring out the best in children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol and drugs?

What advice should caseworkers give to families about the school, day care, neighborhood rules, and the future when they are adopting children? What should an IEP look like? What non-traditional approaches appear promising? What is the latest research?

How can do you accommodate, in therapy, children who have prenatal exposure and who have subsequent difficulty with:

Generalizing from therapy to home,
Organizing their memories,
Generalizing from play therapy to real life themes,
Comprehending language,
Remembering today’s lessons tomorrow,
Inhibiting the desire to touch others.

This session will cover these issues, with a rotating team of experts, and will describe cases in which accommodated techniques were used to help children to do their best at home, school, and in working through emotional issues.

This workshop is required for those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Adoption and Foster Care Therapy.

About the presenter

Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA , is a national trainer, a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of the well-received book, Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents, Perspectives Press, 2002.

Deborah has spent 20 years helping children develop attachments and work through trauma and grief. She teaches in the Trauma Certificate Program at the University of Washington School of Social Work and both graduate adoption therapy programs at Portland State University and Northwest Adoption Exchange. Her second book: Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma is now out. To find out more about it: Click here

About the particulars

Location: Shoreline Center
When: October 26th, 2007
Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
Fee: $125.00 US
CEU info: 6 CEUs Cascadia Training is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, to provide continuing education units to Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Certificates of Completion are awarded to attendees at the end of each workshop. Provider number #1975-118, and is an OSPI approved provider of in-service education. This is a "Washington State Approved Clock Hour Offering Workshop."