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Dr. Patricia
O'Gorman
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Patricia O'Gorman, Ph.D., is noted for her work in
the Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Fields, where she has
held national and statewide positions. She has previously
held the position of Director of the Division of Prevention
of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
Founding Director, National Council on Alcoholism's Department
of Prevention and Education, and a co-founder of the National
Association for Children of Alcoholics. Currently she is the
Chief Psychologist at Berkshire Farm Center, a licensed psychologist
in East Chatham, N.Y., and a noted national and international
lecturer and consultant, known for her warm, funny and information-packed
seminars.
Her seminars include:
- Integrating Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services
- Working with Adolescents Impacted by Addiction Within
the Child Welfare System
- Working with Challenging Families Addiction: A Family
Systems Perspective
- 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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