Training:

Using Reflective Foster Parenting to Understand Non-compliance and Defiance

Sep 9
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 – 10:00am
10:00am - 11:30am

Recording Notes: This webinar will not be recorded.

Level: Intermediate
Ages addressed: 6-18

PLEASE NOTE: To receive a certificate of attendance for the live webinar, attendees must register individually, attend the entire training, and watch from their own device to ensure proper tracking

Caregivers and professionals consistently report that defiance and non-compliance are two of the most difficult challenges youth in care display. These challenges, along with disobedience and disrespectful behavior, are often exasperating for caregivers. Traumatized children often fail to understand and abide by rules at home, school and in the community. The mind of the child with these issues may view rules, demands, and requests from authority figures as unfair and unpredictable and respond with resistance. We will explain the possible origins of these behaviors, and intervention considerations. Specific attention will be placed on the connection of defiance and non-compliance with anxiety, trauma and neglect.

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Location:

FosterEd Adopt Minnesota - Webinar

https://www.fosteradoptmn.org/

Rick Delaney, Ph.D. is a retired psychologist who has collaborated with foster parents, caseworkers, school, and other helping professionals to help foster, kinship and adopted children. He has presented trainer across the U.S. and Canada for decades. Dr. Delaney is a co-developer and faculty at FosterParentCollege.com. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and is the author (or co-author) of: Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning, and Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory, A 3-D View of Foster, Kinship, and Adopted Children (with James M. Kagan, M.D.)


Charley Joyce, LCSW, was a social worker for 40+ years. He is the co-author of the book, “Behavior with a Purpose” and a contributing author of the books “The Kinship Parenting Toolbox” and “Assessing Youth Behavior”. He began his career as a VISTA volunteer and has worked as the clinical director of a psychiatric facility, as an outpatient therapist, supervisor of outpatient therapists, as a foster care caseworker, clinical director of foster care services and as the owner of his private practice. Charley currently contracts with Abound Counseling-LSSND. Charley was awarded the ND Adoption Advocate Award in 2011.