Biography
Michael A. Jones, LCSW is a therapist and trainer in San Diego. Michael
was licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences December
15, 2004. He has worked since 1999 with traumatized children and their
families at Child Welfare Services and in private practice. Michael
trains birth, foster, and adoptive parents as well as agency staff,
case managers, and supervisors in attachment, developmental, and therapeutic
parenting. In addition, he trains child welfare staff throughout the
state on issues of attachment, grief, and loss in the placing of children.
Michael's training experience includes; teaching classes in attachment
parenting, PTSD in children, parenting sexualized children, and positive
parenting for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents through Grossmont
College; attachment and bonding to residential care workers through
San Diego Community College District; attachment parenting and placement
and permanency for child welfare workers through the San Diego State
University Academy for Professional Excellence; clinical case management
and case planning to social work students as adjunct faculty at San
Diego State University School of Social Work; and attachment, developmental,
and therapeutic parenting for group home and foster family agency parents
and staff. He also provides supervision toward LCSW licensure.
Michael earned
his masters degree in social work from Our Lady of the Lake University
in San Antonio, Texas. Before becoming a social worker, Michael was
a television reporter, anchor, producer, and editor for 15 years in
Illinois, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas.