Healthy Attachments

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“23^rd Annual Conference on Promoting Healthy Attachments”

Oglebay Resort & Convention Center, Wheeling, West Virginia

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Learning Session –

 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Ira J. Chasnoff, M.D., President of the Children’s Research Triangle, Chicago, IL. returns this year by popular demand to present a full-day learning session (6 hours.)  Dr. Chasnoff is one of the nation’s leading researchers in the field of prenatal exposure to alcohol and other drugs and is the author of “Understanding the Drug Exposed Child: Approaches to Behavior and Learning.”

5:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Holiday Buffet Dinner followed by a 2-hour learning session on

“Unique Issues of Adoptive Families”

Presented by: Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013   

Learning Sessions –

8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D., Founder and Director of the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio and author of “Adopting the Hurt Child,” has been a popular mainstay at the conference and will present a morning 3-hour learning session on attachment.  Dr. Keck is an internationally recognized leader in this field.

Jack Kammer, MSW, MBA, Program Support Consultant for the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), Germantown, MD, will present a morning and an afternoon learning session (3 hours each), focusing on the work of the NFI founded on the principle that fathers make unique and irreplaceable contributions to the lives of their children.

Darcia F. Narvaez, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Executive Director of the Collaborative for Ethical Education at the University of Notre Dame, award-winning author and blogger for Psychology Today, will present an afternoon 3-hour learning session on the early life experiences of young children and their influence on “moral brain” development.

 Contact for information:

Michele Santin, MA, PCC, LSW (740) 282-3631 or msantin@diosteub.org

Director, Office of Family and Social Concerns (Catholic Charities)

Diocese of Steubenville, PO Box 969, Steubenville OH 43952

In the process of applying for up to 14 CEU’s for OH, PA, and WV Counselors and Social Workers

Contact Oglebay Resort at 1-800-624-6988 for discounted lodging under the room block

for the Diocese of Steubenville