Professional Training: Clinical Issues
 Adult Attachment and Adoption
A 2-hour seminar that offers a framework for assessing adult attachment styles as part of the home study process and in placement decisions; provides a user-friendly tool and evaluation instructions for adoption agencies.
Disruption: Adoption's Uncharted Territory
Disrupting an adoption poses an enormous sense of failure for both workers and families alike. This 3-hour seminar will address the warning signs of family collapse, provide workers with prevention tools, review legal steps involved, and case workers’ emotional response to disruption.
Impact of Sexual Abuse on Children
A full-day seminar that explores the impact of sexual abuse on children and effective treatment strategies for clinicians. Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue in therapists working with this population are also explored. Includes interactive exercises and video presentations.
Managing Difficult Behavior
A 3-hour workshop that provides alternative and successful strategies for handling “actingout” behaviors—lying, stealing, aggression, lack of empathy—that are often exhibited by children in the foster care/orphanage environment. Includes hands-on exercises and videos.
Stages of Attachment and Adjustment of the Older Adopted Child: A Lifetime Journey
A full-day seminar that examines the stages of adjustment and attachment for parents and later-placed children. Provides strategies to help families parent the later placed child, strengthen the family unit, and access local resources.
Understanding Attachment: Educating, Assessing, and Supporting Adoptive Families
A full-day seminar that provides an overview of the attachment process, attachment complications, assessing parent readiness, the adjustment period (post placement), and resources available for families with children who have attachment challenges.
Attachment Training Seminar (ATS)
A 12-month training program for mental health providers in the treatment of attachmentrelated disorders that result in difficult parent-child relationships and manifest in maladaptive behaviors, such as defiance, lying, stealing, and poor emotional regulation. Our attachment-oriented model combines object relations and family systems theories to
empower parents to help their children heal. Intensive program includes 5 full days of training followed by 8 months of follow-up and clinical group supervision.
For more information, contact: Jennifer Kelman, 410-869-0620 or 301-439-2900, email jkelman@adoptionstogether.org.
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