Structured Educational Consultation Group

Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA

About the workshop

This group is formed for therapists providing foster care and adoption therapy in their practices. The consult provides continuing education in the emerging theory and research in the areas of adoption practice, neglect and abuse, prenatal exposure to toxins, development of affective regulation, and the treatment of trauma in the specialized populations of foster care and adoption. It will assist in the practical application of these advances through therapy cases presented by the consult group. This open and ongoing consult group will meet every two months, each time for 3.0 hours. Limited to 11 members. Group is open and ongoing.

About the presenter

Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA , specializes in attachment, grief, and trauma. She has spent over 15,000 hours in the last 15 years counseling children who have been fostered or adopted from the United States or internationally. Her private practice philosophy is one of empowering parents with information and techniques so that their skills and styles are used in meeting the needs of their children. Her passion is to help children and their families to develop close, satisfying relationships.

Deborah stresses practical approaches of promoting attachment, shaping behavior, and working through trauma and grief. She was a keynote speaker for the 2005 ATTACh conference and has keynoted national conferences including the Joint Council of International Children’s Services, American Association of Adoption Attorneys, Midwest Adoption Conference and Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption. She is a faculty member for the University of Washington’s Trauma Certificate program and has taught for Portland State University and Northwest Adoption Exchange post-graduate foster care and adoption therapy programs. She trains regularly for public and non-profit foster care and adoption programs.

Deborah Gray is the author of numerous articles and the book, Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents, published by Perspectives Press, 2002. Her second book: Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma has been published . To find out more about it: Click here

About the particulars

Location: Juanita Bay Office Suites-1st floor conference room-9756 NE Juanita Drive Kirkland, WA 98034
When: September 12th, 2008, October 31st, 2008, January 16th, 2009, May 8th, 2009
Hours: 10:00am-1:00pm
Fee: $55.00 US
CEU info: 3.0 CEU's 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."