He offers a variety of workshops on and working with challenging child and adolescent treatment populations, such as explosive and violent children and adolescents, and youth presenting with substance abuse, ADHD, self-injury, and eating difficulties. He also provides training in narrative approaches with couples and adult populations. The workshop format combines didactic presentation, skill building exercises, and extensive use of videotape examples of key therapeutic techniques and strategies, and live therapy case consultations. Dave's workshops are always rated highly for their practicality and timeliness. Case examples present creative, collaborative, and effective methods to treat youth of different ages coping with such issues as depression, learning disabilities, substance and sexual abuse.
Chapters conclude with editor-contributor dialogs on theory and practice.