Digital Seminar
Kids in Foster Care: Transformative tools to treat the trauma of abandonment, abuse, grief, and loss
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- Faculty:
- Jeanette Yoffe, MA, MFT
- Duration:
- Approx. 6 Hours
- Copyright:
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Sep 19, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059829
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Children in foster care are up against some of the most difficult situations a child can ever face. They’ve lost their homes and been plucked from their families — sometimes permanently.
Learning how to meet the needs of these vulnerable and traumatized children can quite literally change their lives. Surrounded by chaos, you can be the therapist who changes everything for these kids.
But it starts with learning exactly what they need and how to help.
That’s why Jeanette Yoffe, a child psychotherapist, author, and expert in the areas of adoption & foster care, used her own experience of moving through the system as a child in creating this groundbreaking course! You will walk away with:
- A start-to-finish roadmap for therapy with kids and teens in foster care
- Proven strategies for building trust, creating emotional safety, and establishing rapport beginning in the first session
- Tools to treat abandonment wounds, mitigate shame, increase self-esteem, and construct a coherent life narrative
- A complete foster care toolkit with TONS of handouts and ready-touse interventions
Purchase now for this life-changing journey into the world of these hurting kids to become foster care competent and meet the needs of this vulnerable population.
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Kids in Foster Care (15.6 MB) | 212 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Kids in Foster Care - French (15.6 MB) | 212 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Kids in Foster Care - Italian (15.6 MB) | 212 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Kids in Foster Care - German (15.6 MB) | 212 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Kids in Foster Care - Spanish (15.6 MB) | 212 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Identify the internal working model of children in foster care and how these models influence their behavior and relationships.
- Differentiate terms, roles, placement types, and systems involved in the foster care system.
- Analyze barriers to mental health services for foster youth, including stigma, access issues, and systemic challenges.
- Evaluate the impact on brain development, emotional regulation, and attachment styles of children experiencing trauma and abuse.
- Develop appropriate intervention plans based on assessment findings for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and attachment disorders in foster youth.
- Plan trauma-focused interventions using a complex trauma lens.
Outline
The World of Foster Care
Interactive experience: Through the eyes of a foster child
- The internal working model of kids in care
- Terms, roles, placement types, and systems
- Current barriers to mental health services
Trauma, Attachment, and the Brain
- Abuse, neglect, and adverse experiences
- Childhood trauma: neurological responses
- Trauma, dissociation, and “foster care syndrome”
- Impact of attachment style
- Four areas of attachment loss in foster care
- The iceberg effect of unmet needs
- The stages of complicated grief
Assessment and Diagnostics
- Determine “what happened to them”
- Trauma-informed assessment strategies
- Tools to differentiate anxiety, depression, PTSD, and attachment disorders
A Framework for Intervention Using a Complex Trauma Lens
It Starts with Connection
- 3 must-use trust-building activities
- Non-verbal strategies to build rapport
- From fight-flight-freeze to regulation
- Therapy sessions: start to finish
- Collaborative case conceptualization
Coping with Feelings, Thoughts, and Sensations
- Trauma responses via feelings, thoughts, body, and behavior
- Activities: Hold Onto My Feelings, The Anger Bag, and more
- Age-appropriate strategies to address:
- Parental mental illness
- Substance use disorders
- Death
- Sexual abuse
- Abuse and neglect
- ACT and CBT strategies to support selfworth and foster resilience
Construct a Coherent Life Narrative
- Intuitive tips for answering kids’ questions about their past
- Activities
- My Question Box
- My Journey Through Placement
- My Family Tree
- Parts of Me
- Life Narrative template
- Case study
Treat Anxiety and Depression
- Establish locus of control
- Navigate the distress hill
- EFT and trauma focused strategies for in-the-moment calming
- Alternatives to medication
- Risk assessment and suicidality
Address Attachment Disorders
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Interventions to treat abandonment wounds
- Attachment focused interventions
It Takes a Village: The Foster Care System
- Partner with parents and foster parents
- Establish structure and consistency
- Nurture and heal attachment trauma
- Boundaries and support options
- Collaboration: caseworkers, educators, rehab and medical professionals
Being a Foster Care Competent Counselor
- Ethical and cultural considerations
- The risks and joys involved
- Mitigate counter transference
- Strategies to prevent compassion fatigue
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- School Social Workers
- School Counselors
- Occupational Therapists
- Physicians
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