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Are We Getting it Right? Strategies for Working with Adoptive Children and Their Families

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Are We Getting it Right? Strategies for Working with Adoptive Children and Their Families

When
Friday, October 24, 2014
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
Loma Linda University Behavioral Institute, 1686 Barton Road, Redlands, CA 92373

Registration

Guest – $10.00
Anyone who is not an IE-CAMFT member
IE-CAMFT Member
Member of Inland Empire Chapter of CAMFT

Registration is closed

Children adopted from the foster care system have experienced at least one, but often many, traumatic events in their lives. These children often do not receive quality mental health services while in care, and once they are adopted, finding the properly-skilled therapist is difficult as the therapist needs to be able to decipher the behavioral symptoms that these children exhibit and apply the proper techniques to assist the family.

This workshop will review how these symptoms present, including trauma behaviors (fight or flight response), emotional responses, and delays in emotional, social, and/or physical developmental stages as well as how to deal with the concerns of the adoptive family. An interactive exercise will be featured which allows participants to review behavioral symptoms and relate them to diagnostic classifications based on the DSM-V. Intervention strategies will also be discussed and resources will be offered.

Sheralyn L. Shockey-Pope, LMFT co-founded Central Counseling Services in Riverside, CA. She specializes in working with adoptive families, people who have experienced traumatic events and mood disorders. She is in full-time private practice. Previously Ms. Pope was a supervisor of the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services Resource Family Training and Assessment Unit, responsible for the County’s training of all foster, adoptive and kinship (relative) family training. She has 25 years of experience working within the CPS or probation department’s system in three counties.
Jill A. Johnson-Young, LCSW is the senior Social Worker for Companion Care Hospice. She co-founded Central Counseling Services where she uses her extensive knowledge of Child Abuse, Adoption, and grief/ loss issues to work with children and families daily. Ms. Johnson-Young has over 18 years of experiences working for Child Protective Services.