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Dr. Patricia
O'Gorman
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Patricia O'Gorman, Ph.D., a psychologist in private practice in East Chatham, NY, is noted for her work in child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and substance abuse where she has serves as a consultant to organizations in preventative and clinical strategic planning. She has held positions ranging from Clinical Director of a child welfare agency to Director of Prevention for NIAAA, and is a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. An internationally recognized speaker, and author of numerous articles including one in The Link (4-08) on how evidenced based programs are creating a new business model for organizations, she has also authored numerous books on such topics as self-parenting, and women and resilience. Her most recent book is The Lowdown on Families Who Get High: Successful Parenting for Families Affected by Addiction (CWLA, 2004).
Her seminars include:
- Bringing Out the Best When Staff are at Their Worst
- Strength-Based Engagement
- Integrating Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services
- Working with Adolescents Impacted by Addiction
- Working with Challenging Families Addiction: A Family
Systems Perspective
- Working with the Dual Diagnosed Client
- Strength-based Approaches for Working with High Risk Adolescents
- Adoption: A Personal Perspective — A Workshop for Parents
- Women and the 2 R's: Resiliency and Recovery
- Women Leadership
- The Feminine Face of Diversity
- Self-Parenting for Helping Professionals
- Dancing Backwards in High Heels: Mastering the Art of
Resilience
- Helpful Conversations with Your Children
- Helpful Conversations with Your Co-workers
- Helpful Conversations with Your Loved One
She has lectured both nationally and internationally from
corporate seminars, and university settings around the United
States, to events in South Korea, Israel, the Pribilof Islands
in the Bering Sea, and the retreat centers of Escalen and
Omega. Her expertise in strength-based approaches has been
used with a number of groups that include women, executives,
families, delinquent adolescents, children of alcoholic parents,
and adoptive children and families.
She is the author of 7 best-selling books. Click on the links
below for more information about featured titles:
She is a veteran of numerous TV appearances including Good
Morning America, The Today Show, and AM Sunday. She work is
extensively quoted in the print media. She is the mother of
adopted twin boys and lives in a two-hundred-year-old house
in New York's Berkshires foothills.
For information on resilience and how you can identify and
develop your resilience, read Dancing
Backwards in High Heels and attend one of my seminars.
Or better yet, arrange for a seminar.
Specialized seminars are available. I look forward to seeing
you there.
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