Learn about adoption ethics and implications for US mental health professionals. These CE courses offer an understanding of adoption's impact on families in the United States.
This course provides an overview of adoption in South Africa for mental health professionals working with, or hoping to work with, adoptive families. US clinicians will learn about the social and racial dynamics that influence adoption as a placement option, the legislative and ethical framework, and how the South African context shapes adoptive family experiences. Features of adoption-competent therapy, including an ecological approach and strengths-based interventions, are discussed alongside the challenges families face across the adoptive family life cycle. The course offers CE credits for psychologists through an APA-approved sponsor.
This presentation covers an overview of adoption in South Africa for mental health and other professionals working in, or hoping to work in, the adoption community. The presentation discusses the landscape of adoption in the South African context, including social and racial dynamics influencing whether adoption is taken up as a placement option, as well as relevant the legislative & ethical framework. Features of adoption competent therapy are identified, and a developmental perspective of the adoptive family life cycle and presenting concerns in therapy are discussed.
By the end of the presentation participants will:
Recognise the importance of two of the features of adoption competent therapy, namely using an ecological approach to understand adoptive families and emphasising strengths-based interventions;
Have an understanding of how the unique South African context impacts on the need for adoption, the practice of adoption and the experiences of adoptive families in South Africa; and
Have an overview of, and some examples of tasks and challenges that cause adoptive families to present for therapy at different stages of the adoptive family lifecycle
* Presentations are independent of any advertiser and are created without sponsorship influence.
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