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Topics

ABUSE PREVENTION <top>
Safeguarding Individuals with Severe Communication Disorders  
Communication for Children and Youth with Severe Speech Disorders  
Building Resiliency in Children and Youth  
Street Youth: Stopping the Revolving Door  
Addressing High Risk Sexualized Behavior  
Victims and/Perpetrators: Now What?  
   
TEACHING HEALTHY SEXUALITY <top>
Teaching Healthy Sexuality to Troubled Youth  
Healthy Sexuality and Relationships for High Risk Youth  
Teaching Healthy Sexuality to Youth with Intellectual Disabilities  
Advanced Techniques for Teaching Healthy Sexuality to Clients with
Intellectual Disabilities
 
Best Practices in Approaching Sexuality Issues  
   
TRAUMA ASSESSMENT/TREATMENT <top>
Trauma Assessment and Treatment (Certificate Program:6 days)  
Models of Trauma Assessment  
Sexualized Behaviour of Children Under 12  
Advanced Treatment: Sexualized Behaviour of Children Under 12  
Group Therapy: Addressing Trauma Issues  
Understanding and Supporting Those who have been Abused  
Understanding Traumatized Children  
Impact of Abuse on Developmental Stages  
Healing the Sexually Abused Child: Maximizing the Therapeutic Potential of Foster Families (Front-line or Trainer Training)
 
Identifying and Reporting Abuse/Legal Rights  
Recognizing and Responding to the Abuse of People with Intellectual Disability
 
Therapy for the Survivors of Abuse with Intellectual Disability  
   
SELF-INJURY <top>
Self Abuse Prevention and Treatment (Certificate Program: 4 days)  
Understanding and Treating Self-Injury  
Overcoming Self Injury in Residential Settings  
   
SUICIDE/GRIEF <top>
Suicide: Identification of Risk Factors and Intervention  
Reducing Suicidal Behaviour in Youth  
Reducing Suicide in Communities  
Before the First Decade: Children and Suicide  
Grief, Loss and Separation  
   
ANXIETY <top>
Its Always Darkest Before Youre Twenty: Treating Trauma Based Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
 
   
DEPRESSION <top>
Treating Child and Adolescent Depression (CMHO Evidence-based training)
 
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression  
   
ATTACHMENT <top>
Understanding/Treating Attachment Disorders  
Attachment and the Brain: Recent Findings to Help Understand and Treat Children
 
   
   
ADDITIONAL SPECIALIZED TOPIC AREAS <top>
Brain Development /Sensory Integration  
Children and Youth with FAS/FAE  
Medication Used in Treating Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents
 
   
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR <top>
Treating Anti-Social Behaviour (Certificate Program: 6 Day)  
Anger Control Training for Children and Adolescents  
Social Skills Training for Anti-Social Children and Adolescents  
Conducting Skill Groups for Parents of Children and Adolescents with Disruptive Disorders
 
Treating Anti-social Beahviour: Advanced Skills Training  
Expressive Arts Therapy: Anti-Social Behaviour  
Creating Environments to Reduce Aggressive Behaviour  
Addressing Child and Youth Bullying  

 
TCI <top>
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (Trainer Certification)  
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (Updates fore re-certification)  
TCI (Front-line Staff Training)
 
   
ADHD <top>
Integrative Therapy For Clients with ADHD  
Using Play Therapy for Children and Youth with ADHD
 
   
   
HIGH RISK YOUTH/SEX OFFENDERS <top>
Addressing High Risk Sexualized Behaviour  
Victims and/Perpetrators: Now What?  
Responding to Sexually Aggressive Adolescents  
High Risk Youth Living at Home
 
Introduction to Narrative Therapy  
Narrative Therapy for Sex Offenders  
Healthy Sexuality and Relationships for High Risk Youth  
   
THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES <top>
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  
Essentials of Using Play Therapy with Children  
Therapeutic Storytelling (Assessment/Treatment)  
Assessment/Intervention through Game Therapy
 
Sharing Without Talking: Assessment/Treatment of Abuse (Expressive Art)
 
Expressive Arts: Children Who Witness Woman Abuse  
Innovative Techniques to Engage Resistant Clients in Counselling  
Milieu Treatment  

 
SPECIFIC TO CLIENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITES <top>
Supporting the Successful Transition to Adulthood  
Dual Diagnosis: Effective Strategies for Intervention  
A Took Kit for Supporting High Need Individuals  
Recognizing and Responding to the Abuse of People with Intellectual Disability
 
Therapy for the Survivors of Abuse with Intellectual Disability  
Safeguarding Individuals with Severe Communication Disorders  
Best Practices Approaching Sexuality Issues with Youth and Adults  
Teaching Healthy Sexuality to Youth with Intellectual Disabilities  
Advanced Techniques for Teaching Healthy Sexuality to Clients with Intellectual Disabilities  
   
   
SUPERVISION <top>
Building Resiliant Organizations and Hardy Individuals  
Understanding Clinical Supervision for Residential Staff  
Supervision: Introductory, Advanced, Difficult Issues  
Understanding Clinical Supervision: Day Treatment/Out-Patient Settings  
Best Practice Models of Supervision  
Tools of the Trade for Dynamic Supervisors  
Increasing Staff Retention Through Leadership  
Dynamic Team Building: Staff and Managers  
Developing and Maintaining Healthy Staff Teams  
   
   
CASE CONSULTATION <top>
Advanced Case Consultation for Therapists in Clinical Settings
 
Effective Treatment Planning/Case Management  
   
STAFF <top>
Impact on Staff Dealing with Abused Children
 
How to Stay Positive When Dealing with Difficult Clients  
   
ORGANIZATIONAL <top>
Building Resilient Organizations and Hardy Individuals  
Increasing Staff Retention Through Leadership  
Dynamic Team Building: Staff and Managers  
Developing and Maintaining Health Staff Teams: A Manager Guide  
Quality Assurance and Risk Management in Human Service Organizations  
   
FAMILY <top>
Facilitating Family Support Groups  
Empowering Families to be Part of the Solution  
Working With Children Who are Adopted  
   
OUT-OF HOME PLACEMENTS <top>
Living Together Constructively  
Creative Approach to Long term Residential Groups  
Healing the Sexually Abused Child: Maximizing the Therapeutic Potential of Foster Families (Front-line or Trainer Training)  
What About The Caregiver: How to Develop Support Program:  
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IN-SERVICE TRAINING: Please contact Leslie Atkinson at 905) 889-7016 or email leslie@safeguards-training.net to obtain more information on these topics or to discuss requests for other topics or trainers. Safeguards has an association with an extensive number of trainers and can produce a variety of additional topics. (Last Up-dated: October 2004)




   
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