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Adoption Competency Training
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NACAC’s curriculum is designed to help mental health practitioners and child welfare workers understand the importance of building skills and knowledge related to working with adoptive families. While parents are welcome to participate in the professional training, NACAC has also created a parent-focused version of the training.
Adoption competency encompasses understanding in many areas—therapeutic approaches, differences in adoption, clinical issues, attachment and separation, normative crises, cultural issues, and much more. With this curriculum, NACAC’s goal is to emphasize families’ strengths, ensure that practices are family-based and value all members of the adoption triad, acknowledge that adoption is a process and not an event, and focus on the many systems that are affected by adoption. Those who work with adoptive families will need to continue to build their skills, knowledge, empathy, and understanding of this journey, and to seek resources in their home provinces, states and counties that can also meet families’ needs.
8-Day Overview
Day One
Complex issues
Attachment and Bonding: Assessment, Diagnosis and Interventions
Day Two
Unique Clinical Issues: Impact of Abuse and Neglect, Drug and Alcohol Effects and other Neurological Disorders
Day Three
Trauma, Abuse, Neglect: Treatment Modalities That Work for Adoptive Families
Treatment Modalities
Day Four
Culture and Diversity – Children and Families
Day Five
Kinship Care, Birth Family Connections and Openness in Adoption
Day Six
Normative Development Capacities
Permanency Planning
Building Child/Parent Systems
Day Seven
Putting Adoption Competency into Practice
Post Adoption Supports
Day Eight
Practice, Inventory and Review
For more information, please contact Kim Stevens at kimstevens@nacac.org
or 508-254-2200. |
