This training is for parents and mental health professionals working with children/teens/families connected by foster care and adoption, as well as adoptees wanting to learn more about their experience.

Learn the key components of
Adoption and Mental Health best practice!

Presented by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T
Adoption Competent Therapist and Adoptee.

Key concepts of Adoption will be discussed such as the life cycle of adoption, adoption as a life-long process, the significance of birth family members, open adoption practice, grief and loss in adoption, impact of separation trauma, the role of attachment in adoption, search and reunion challenges for the adoption constellation members and clinical practice/therapeutic strategies for children, youth, and families.

1. PURCHASE TRAINING

 

2. WATCH and STREAM at your own pace.

 

3. Earn 5 FREE Continuing Education Units for professionals.

California Board of Registered Nurses, Psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

4. Print out a Certificate of Attendance upon completion from your computer.

OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING:

1. Identify how attachment, trauma and loss impact the neuroscience of the brain.

2. Understand why it is important to talk about adoption with children at different ages.

3. Explore the special needs for adoptees and how to support them developmentally.

4. Learn about the unique challenges that transracial adoptive families face.

5. Gain understanding about open adoption and how to maintain biological connections.

6. Incorporate new knowledge of multiple therapeutic interventions to use with children/teens/families to help them express anger, grief and loss.

5 CEU’s FREE with Purchase
Continuing Education Hours:This course does meet the qualifications for Five Hours of Continuing Education.

California Board of Registered Nurses, Psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Celia Center Inc is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, CAMFT Provider #121492.

The target audience is the following: educators, teachers, health providers, licensed professionals in the adoption community: LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCCs, and/or LEP’s.

CEU Certificates are awarded to licensed professionals at the conclusion of the training. You must stay logged in the entire training for credits. Course evaluations must be completed, before the awarding of CEU’s and Certificates.