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Digital Seminar

Kids in Foster Care: Transformative tools to treat the trauma of abandonment, abuse, grief, and loss


Speaker:
Jeanette Yoffe, MA, MFT
Duration:
Approx. 6 Hours
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Copyright:
Sep 19, 2024
Product Code:
POS059829
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

Children in foster care are up against some of the most difficult situations a child can ever face. They’ve lost their homes and been plucked from their families — sometimes permanently.

Learning how to meet the needs of these vulnerable and traumatised children can quite literally change their lives. Surrounded by chaos, you can be the therapist who changes everything for these kids.

But it starts with learning exactly what they need and how to help.

That’s why Jeanette Yoffe, a child psychotherapist, author, and expert in the areas of adoption & foster care, used her own experience of moving through the system as a child in creating this groundbreaking course! You will walk away with:

  • A start-to-finish roadmap for therapy with kids and teens in foster care
  • Proven strategies for building trust, creating emotional safety, and establishing rapport beginning in the first session
  • Tools to treat abandonment wounds, mitigate shame, increase self-esteem, and construct a coherent life narrative
  • A complete foster care toolkit with TONS of handouts and ready-touse interventions

Purchase now for this life-changing journey into the world of these hurting kids to become foster care competent and meet the needs of this vulnerable population.

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

 


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

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Speaker

Jeanette Yoffe, MA, MFT's Profile

Jeanette Yoffe, MA, MFT Related seminars and products

Yoffe Therapy


Jeanette Yoffe, MA, LMFT, earned her master’s in clinical psychology from Antioch University in 2002, specializing in adoption and foster care. With over 20 years of experience, she focuses on treating individuals with serious psychological issues stemming from abuse, neglect, adoption, or multiple foster placements.

As the founder of Celia Center, a Los Angeles-based non-profit, Jeanette supports all members of the foster care and adoption community, including birth parents, adoptees, and professionals. She is also the clinical director of Yoffe Therapy Inc., offering mental health services to families connected by foster care and adoption.

Jeanette’s personal journey as an adoptee and former foster child fuels her passion for this work. She has published resources like her one-woman show and children’s books on Amazon and has a YouTube channel named Jeanette-ically Speaking speaking about foster care, adoption and mental health. Learn more at www.jeanetteyoffe.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jeanette Yoffe is the founder and executive director of Yoffe Therapy, Inc and Celia Center, Inc. She receives royalties as a published author. Jeanette Yoffe receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jeanette Yoffe is a member of the Foster Care Alumni of America, the American Adoption Congress, the Concerned United Birthparents, and the North American Council on Adoptable Children.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


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Objectives

  1. Identify the internal working model of children in foster care and how these models influence their behaviour and relationships.
  2. Differentiate terms, roles, placement types, and systems involved in the foster care system.
  3. Analyse barriers to mental health services for foster youth, including stigma, access issues, and systemic challenges.
  4. Evaluate the impact on brain development, emotional regulation, and attachment styles of children experiencing trauma and abuse.
  5. Develop appropriate intervention plans based on assessment findings for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and attachment disorders in foster youth.
  6. Plan trauma-focused interventions using a complex trauma lens.

Outline

The World of Foster Care
Interactive experience: Through the eyes of a foster child

  • The internal working model of kids in care
  • Terms, roles, placement types, and systems
  • Current barriers to mental health services

Trauma, Attachment, and the Brain

  • Abuse, neglect, and adverse experiences
  • Childhood trauma: neurological responses
  • Trauma, dissociation, and “foster care syndrome”
  • Impact of attachment style
  • Four areas of attachment loss in foster care
  • The iceberg effect of unmet needs
  • The stages of complicated grief

Assessment and Diagnostics

  • Determine “what happened to them”
  • Trauma-informed assessment strategies
  • Tools to differentiate anxiety, depression, PTSD, and attachment disorders

A Framework for Intervention Using a Complex Trauma Lens
It Starts with Connection

  • 3 must-use trust-building activities
  • Non-verbal strategies to build rapport
  • From fight-flight-freeze to regulation
  • Therapy sessions: start to finish
  • Collaborative case conceptualisation

Coping with Feelings, Thoughts, and Sensations

  • Trauma responses via feelings, thoughts, body, and behaviour
  • Activities: Hold Onto My Feelings, The Anger Bag, and more
  • Age-appropriate strategies to address:
    • Parental mental illness
    • Substance use disorders
    • Death
    • Sexual abuse
    • Abuse and neglect
  • ACT and CBT strategies to support selfworth and foster resilience

Construct a Coherent Life Narrative

  • Intuitive tips for answering kids’ questions about their past
  • Activities
    • My Question Box
    • My Journey Through Placement
    • My Family Tree
    • Parts of Me
  • Life Narrative template
  • Case study

Treat Anxiety and Depression

  • Establish locus of control
  • Navigate the distress hill
  • EFT and trauma focused strategies for in-the-moment calming
  • Alternatives to medication
  • Risk assessment and suicidality

Address Attachment Disorders

  • Animal-assisted therapy
  • Interventions to treat abandonment wounds
  • Attachment focused interventions

It Takes a Village: The Foster Care System

  • Partner with parents and foster parents
  • Establish structure and consistency
  • Nurture and heal attachment trauma
  • Boundaries and support options
  • Collaboration: caseworkers, educators, rehab and medical professionals

Being a Foster Care Competent Counselor

  • Ethical and cultural considerations
  • The risks and joys involved
  • Mitigate counter transference
  • Strategies to prevent compassion fatigue
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • School Social Workers
  • School Counsellors
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Physicians

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