How to Choose an Adoption Competent Therapist
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
02/23/22
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Have you or your child faced adoption related struggles? Do you think therapy might be helpful? We discuss how to find and choose an adoption competent therapist with Kelly Raudenbush, a child and family therapist and the director of Sparrow Counseling, providing specialized therapeutic services for foster and adopted children and their families.
In this episode, we cover:
- What type of professional can provide therapy?
- What’s the difference between being adoption competent and adoption informed?
- Why is competency in adoption issues important?
- What do we mean be an “adoption competent therapist”? What makes a therapist adoption informed?
- Is adoption competence the same as trauma competence?
- How can you tell if a therapist is competent to handle adoption issues? Are there specific trainings that provide adoption competency?
- Creating a Family provides a list of ways to find an adoption competent therapist on our Adoption Therapy section.
- How to find a therapist with lived experience of being adopted?
- Is one type of therapeutic model of treatment more effective for adoptive children and families? Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), Narrative therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- Should therapy with adopted kids on adoption issues involve just the child, or the child and the parent?
- How can a parent determine if the therapist is a good fit for the child and family? What questions should they ask?
- What is home-based therapy and what are the advantages to this type of therapy for adoptive and foster families.
- How can you find a therapist that will provide therapy within the home? (One source is http://www.familycenteredtreatment.org/)
- Is therapy via tele-health or via teleconferencing as effective for adoptive families? How to know if it will work for your family? Ways to make it more effective.
- When to seek a therapist?
Resources:
- Creating a Family’s Adoption Therapy section
- A Guide to Selecting an Adoption or Foster Therapist
- 10 Reasons for Parents to be in Child’s Therapy Session
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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- Decline in international adoptions.
- What do you see happening with domestic infant adoptions?
- Increase importance on openness.
- What can adoption teach the world?
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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