Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Name four areas related to children's understanding of adoption.
-Identify three family conflicts.
-Discuss one technique in understanding birth family thoughts for adolescents.
-Describe two aspects regarding birth family thoughts for adolescents.
-Identify three causes of grief and the challenge of adoption.
-Identify three issues adoptive parents face.
-Describe first four methods for family conversation.
-Name fifth and sixth method of family conversation.
-List last three methods of family conversation.
-Explain six techniques for adoption and cognitive development.
-Discuss six stages of development in adopted children.
-List six steps regarding disclosure of preadoptive child maltreatment.
-List five phases of rape narratives and incest disclosure.
-Name seven steps of adoptive dissolution.
-Explain what has been a virtual obsession in law, language, and literary representations regarding adoptions.
-Explain what has been among the most persistent features of the literature on therapeutic adoption, in part because it highlights the chronic problem of making adoptive kinship real while also making it distinctive.
-Explain what did the results demonstrate in regards to the risk of adoptive parents developing psychiatric and alcohol-related problem behaviors.
-Name the four sources of stress for families who adopted multiple children with severe disabilities.
-Explain what parent characteristics are associated with adoption disruption.
-Name the first objective of the Quality Protects agenda.
-Explain what recent trend in attachment theory brings it closer to the psychoanalytic object relations theory, which suggests that relationships are patterned according to internal representations of relationships.
-Explain what a greater understanding can enhance carers’ capacities and sensitivity to the meaning of the child’s behavior.
-Name the three components of cultural competence for transracial adoptive parents.
-Explain what cannot be traced to insecure attachment patterns between adoptive mothers and children in infancy.
-Explain the DSM criteria for RAD.
-Explain what parental desires do attachment therapies address.
-Name what two elements to include in the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act which requires each state plan for oversight and coordination of health care services for any child in foster care.


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."