Family Issue Workshops
Attachment: Explore the effects of foster care, adoption, and kinship care realities for children. Learn how to facilitate attachment in any nontraditional family structure. In many cases, children with attachment issues become symptomatic while connecting with classroom staff. Challenging behaviors may surface causing the teacher's efforts to be sabotaged. Learn how to effectively interact with a child presenting with attachment issues.
Addiction as a Family Member: Families deal with various forms of addiction. Explore how this challenge influences perception of self in the home; in society; and in the classroom. Identify and learn how to employ the family's internal and external resources to employ support.
Drug and Alcohol Use: This workshop identifies the risk factors; warning signs; and symptoms of possible drug and/or alcohol use with a student population. Interventions are explored to promote student health and sobriety.
Family Life Cycle Theory: Explore the family life cycle theory in terms of typical objectives a family faces throughout its lifespan. Understanding a family's development will promote empathy for it's members and normalize experiences during times of stress and crisis.
The Blended Family: Identify how blended families are influenced by family of origin messages and loyalties to previous family structures. These relationships will be challenged with negotiating the new family form with their previous family experience. During transition periods, family stress ors will impact relationship functioning and possibly alter academic and social performance. Learn how to predict and address blended family issues and support the student and the evolving family unit.
The Grieving Process: This topic can be presented when addressing loss of a family member; grieving the loss of family and familiar environments due to a move or job change; loss of a reality that will never be (acceptance of a child's or parent's handicapping condition; loss of a family member's time and attention; or the divorce of parents). Understanding the grieving process will allow for the support of a family and its members when individuals are symptomatic of grief. Grief is a necessary avenue to health. Learn about the steps in the process and how individuals can work through pain to evolve to a peaceful acceptance.
Boys and Girls: Are they treated differently?: How is gender socialized? What social messages do we receive and then reinforce about being a boy and being a girl? Anew levels of performance and accomplishment impacted by gender definition? Explore how you and your families address gender. Learn how to open levels of functioning to the standard of the individual rather than the gender of the person.
Parenthood and its impact on the child: Couplehood evolves into a different structure when children enter the picture.The parents have childhood experiences and associated expectations they project onto heir children and their understanding of the roles of parents. Conflict in meaning can cause stress in the relationship and affect the way parents interact with their children. These issues may come to light while addressing classroom performance. Expectation from the parents and their need for validation can sabotage the teacher and the child. Learn how to decrease parent anxiety and work as a team to meet the academic, emotional, and social needs of the student.
Other titles include:
Understanding common childhood diagnosis
How to help the child being raised by an ill or ailing parent
Divorce: how to have a healthier perspective
Siblings: A wonderful resource of support
Remember: You can ask for a custom designed workshop to address the needs of your staff and family. An EF consultant will meet with you and then create a staff development seminar that touches the issues and concerns you identify.
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