Professional Skills 1:
Theories Regarding Why Youth Exhibit Certain Behaviors

This is the first of 6 Professional Skills seminars.

This training focuses on Theories Regarding Why Youth Exhibit Certain Behaviors. Discuss attachment, trauma, grief & loss, and neurological involvement and how if may affect the children placed in your care.

Instructor Pamela Parkinson, PhD, LCSW, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed clinical social worker with over 26 years in the field of providing services to children and families. Dr. Parkinson been trained in two disciplines (psychology and social work) and has worked as a residential counselor, a teaching assistant for special education, and a recreation specialist in residential treatment. Additionally, she has worked in the full continuum of services from residential and non-public school to community-based services such as outpatient clinics, school-based programs, diversion, kinship, etc.