Post-Adoption Transitional Support Series

Featuring Jeanette Yoffe of Celia Center

1 Hour of Continuing Education

1. Watch the Video
2. Take the Test
3. And Receive a Certificate of Completion!!!

Module 1 – General Experiences with Adopted Children

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Summary
This course was designed to help parents and professionals understand the general experiences children may exhibit in adoption. This course helps the learner identify losses, understand the importance of attachment, and explore common questions for all adopted persons.

Goals

• Provide two points that all adoptees need their parents to understand.
• Educate about the three primary challenges children will experience.
• Understand how trauma impacts the brain, behavior and overall development.

Learning Objectives

• Identify grief and loss indicators for the adopted person.
• Summarize the psychological and emotional impact of early trauma and separation from the mother.
• Discuss how the loss of the “biological family” effects the attachment between the adoptive parents and the child.
• Give examples of common challenges for the adopted person.

Instructors

The series is presented by Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T., Marriage and Family Therapist, founder and executive director of the Celia Center.

Celia Center is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that provides therapy and special services for the whole constellation of foster-related people: from foster children to adult foster children, from foster parents to hopeful parents of orphaned or foster children, from adoptive parents to birth parents.

About Celia Center

At Celia Center we address the critical mental health needs of anyone connected by foster care and/or adoption. We provide support groups, conferences, special events, workshops for adoptees, foster youth alumni children, parents thinking about adoption, foster parents, adoptive parents, and birth parents — so we include all members of the constellation to provide the support that is a lifelong process . . .
— Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T., Executive Director, Celia Center