Workshops for Adoption Agencies, Professionals, and Parent Groups

Susan is both a local and nationally recognized speaker. Is your agency looking for new ways to explore and examine concepts and practices about adoption therapy? Are you interested in presenting complex information about attachment and bonding to clinical staff members in a practical and relevant manner? Please contact Susan to discuss how her workshops can benefit your agency.

These are what some participants said about Susan's workshop, Collaborating with Newly Adoptive Families: Understanding Attachment - Based Assessment and Intervention Tools:

"I found this entire session to be incredibly informative. What a wonderful speaker, a wealth of knowledge, great examples and relevant stories, etc."

"The most helpful part of the session was breaking down the 'components' of attachment so we can see how to utilize the information with a variety of client situations."

"Susan was very clear in her explanations"

"The explanations, examples and relevance to our work - very clear- extremely well prepared and thorough. Excellent! "

"Very very useful."

"The examples and presentation - done very well. Great interactions, lots of time for Q and A."

Workshops Available

Susan offers interactive workshops and seminars addressing the following topics:

• Attachment Theory in Practice: Making it Work for All Types of Families
• The Adult Attachment Interview: How it Can Prepare Waiting Parents
• Separation, Grief, and Loss as Experienced by Adopted Persons
• Attachment and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
• Developing Attachment and Emotional Ties to an Adoptive/ Foster Family
• International Adoption and Its Impact on Race, Ethnicity, Culture for the Adopted Person
• Adoption Throughout the Lifespan: Child, Adolescent, and Adult
• Maintaining Cultural Identity as a Family
• Telling Your Child's Adoption Story
• Adoption Group Therapy for Elementary, Middle School, and Teen Groups

If you are interested in scheduling a workshop or presentation please contact Susan.

Susan has led or co-led dozens of workshops and presentations. The most recent include the following:

Mending the Family's Patches: How to Discuss Difficult Subjects within Adoptive Families, Barker Foundation's 65th Annual Conference, Rockville, MD.

Post Adoption Therapy Services for Adolescents and Adults: View from the Inside Out, Joint Council on International Children's Services, Baltimore, MD.

Collaborating with Newly Adoptive Families: Understanding Attachment-Based Assessment and Intervention Tools, The Barker Foundation, Bethesda, MD, December 2009

5th Annual Teen Weekend, The Barker Foundation, Bethesda, MD, April 2009

Adult Adoptee Institute: We Are Not Orphans Anymore, Panel Member, Joint Council of International Children's Services, Indianapolis, IA, March 2009

Attachment Interventions: Parts I and II, Coalition for Alexandria's Youngest Children, Alexandria, VA Department of Human Services, Alexandria, VA, January and February 2009.

Enhancing Pre School Children's Self Esteem and Social Skills: Group Activities that Help Children Grow and Thrive, Alexandria Department of Human Services, Headstart and Early Childhood Educators, Alexandria, VA, November 18th, 2008

A Proactive Psycho- Educational Model for Group Work with Elementary School Adopted Children, The Barker Foundation, Bethesda, MD, July 21, 2008