Dr. Bert Whetstone
Licensed Clinical Psychologist - Certified School Psychologist
295 Shore Drive, Laconia, NH 03246-2947
drbertwhetstone@yahoo.com / Phone:  603-455-4097


NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS
 
National and International Workshops The 360º Model:
Child-Centered Team Building
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WORKSHOPS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  • Mainstream Management of Difficult Children

  • Emotional Disturbance vs. Social Maladjustment

  • Relaxation Strategies for Teachers: Practical Classroom Applications

  • A Model for Group Intervention for Students with Emotional Problems

  • Increasing Family Involvement in Education

  • Working with Families in an Educational Program for Multiply Handicapped Students

  • Advocacy Approaches to Student Discipline: New Awareness in Drug and Alcohol Interventions

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders

  • Teaching, Management, and Medical Interventions

  • Matching Treatment Approaches to Learning Styles: Focus on AD/HD, LD, ODD and ED Students

  • Advocating for the AD/HD Child in School: Process and Content Suggestions for School Counselors

  • Ten Ways to Encourage Healthy Homework Habits

  • Useful Definitions of Discipline

  • Family Systems Therapy and Team Building Around Challenging Children, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China, March 2007

  • Team Building and Attachment Issues in a Transient Environment, Presentation to Staff and Parents, International School of Beijing, March 2007

WORKSHOPS FOR PRIVATE BOARDING & DAY SCHOOLS

  • Applying Psychological Test Results

  • Stemming Drug and Alcohol Use

  • Advocacy Approaches to Student Discipline

  • Ethical Dilemmas in Multiple Role Situations

  • Empathic Teaching and Boundary Maintenance

  • Enhancing Well-being in Boarding School Faculty

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders in your Classroom, Dorm and Athletic Programs

  • Coping With Senior Year Stresses

  • Peer Counseling for Proctors

  • Leadership Styles, Skills. and Outcomes

  • Credibility and Compromised Leadership Values

  • Proctor Roles and Communications with Students, Faculty, Administrators

  • Thoughts on Leaving Your Sons and Daughters at Private School

  • Adolescent Depression: Assessments, Interventions

  • Teenage Suicide: Faculty Roles in Prevention

  • Dealing with Bad News from Home

WORKSHOPS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

  • Fantasy in Play Therapy

  • Testing and Differential Diagnoses

  • Using Test Results in Everyday Life

  • Relaxation Training, and Applications to

  • Therapeutic Relationships with Children

  • Counseling Depressed and Suicidal People

  • Enuresis: Research, Intervention, and Prognosis

  • Giving and Receiving Therapeutic Assignments

  • Humor and Games in Therapeutic Relationships

  • Counseling Techniques and Intervention Strategies

  • Communication for Building Self-Esteem

  • Positive and Negative Interpersonal Communication: Videotapes of Child-Teacher Communication Process

  • Children with Hyperactivity/ Attention Deficit Disorder: Assessment, Therapeutic Management, and Goal Setting

  • Behavior Management & Communication Skills Training With the Chronically Disabled

  • Defense Mechanisms: What They Are and How to Use Them

  • Assertiveness and Communication: How to Give Positive Feedback

  • Data-based Decisions on Using Stimulants to Treat Attention Deficits

  • Interpersonal Communication Styles for Teaching Emotions: Theory and Role Plays

WORKSHOPS ON CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS

  • Classroom and Home Management Strategies with AD/HD and Oppositional Defiant Children

  • Attention Deficit Disorders at Home and School: Communication, Environmental, Behavioral, and Medical Management

  • Suicidal Gestures and Friendship

  • Issues in Adolescent Development

  • Emotional Development in Childhood

  • Stress Identification and Management

  • Effective Discipline with Young Children

  • How to Read and Use Psychological Reports

  • Peer Pressure, Stress, and Crisis Intervention

  • Working with Child Reports of Sexual Abuse

  • Developing Trust in Counseling with Children

  • Activity-Discussion Group Therapy with Children

  • Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children

  • Limiting Screen Time: Media Effects on Child Behavior

  • Discipline Strategies, and Group Management Skills for Camp Counselors

  • Communication with Children Based on Developmental Stages

  • Interview and Communication Strategies between Adults and Children in the Court Diversion Setting

  • Listening Skills and Goal Setting in Court Diversion Hearings

  • Adolescent Personality Development: Diagnosis and Intervention with Borderline Adolescents

  • Adolescent Depression: Assessment & Intervention

  • Teenage Suicide: Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention

WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES

  • Parenting Skills Course

  • Parent-Teenager Communications

  • Assertive Management in Family Life

  • Parental Rights in Family Relationships

  • Living and Working with Attention Deficit Disorders

  • Parental Responsibility Dealing With Adolescent Drug Use

  • One for Us, 167 for Them: Skills Learned in Therapy Applied to Family Life

WORKSHOPS FOR RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTERS

  • Crisis Intervention

  • Management of Routines

  • Activity Group Management

  • Confronting Sexual Behavior

  • Terminating Therapeutic Relationships

  • Individual and Group Therapy Interventions

  • Dealing with Burnout: Reasons and Resolutions

  • Recognition and Interventions with Emotional Problems

  • Group Therapy with Sexually Abused and Abusing Children

  • Clinically Relevant Information in Reporting Critical Incidents

  • Counseling Interventions with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Behavioral Program

  • Communication Exercises for Sharing Cottage and School Experiences

  • Management of Aggressive Behavior in Residential Treatment Centers

  • Staff Communication Issues: Minnesota Couples Communication Paradigm

RADIO AND TELEVISION APPEARANCES

  • Communication, Environmental, Behavioral, and Medical Management of AD/HD at Home and School

  • Limiting the Effects of Media Violence on Children

  • Encouraging Creativity by Limiting “Screen Time”

  • Adult AD/HD: Impacts on Relationships

  • AD/HD Success Stories


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