Clinical Social Work with Adoptive Parents: Issues and Guidelines

Name: Clinical Social Work with Adoptive Parents: Issues and Guidelines
Price: 99.00 USD
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Rating: 5 (265 reviews)

Course: #79Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 265 Reviews

This webinar identifies challenges adoptive parents often encounter when seeking adoption competent care from clinical social workers and other mental health professionals; predictable normative developmental issues adoptive parents and their families commonly experience; assumptions and mistakes clinicians often make in their work with adoptive parents; and guidelines for adoption competent clinical intervention with adoptive parents.

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Learning Outcomes

After this course, participants will be able to identify some challenges adoptive parents encounter when seeking adoption competent care from clinical social workers and other mental health care providers.
After this course, participants will be able to list some assumptions and mistakes many clinicians make when working with adoptive parents and their families.
After this course, participants will be able to identify some guidelines for adoption competent clinical intervention with adoptive parents.

Course created on June 8, 2020

Agenda

0-5 Minutes	Introduction
5-10 Minutes	Avoid pathologizing
10-15 Minutes	Beware of your assumptions
15-20 Minutes	Guidelines: Plan for on- going contact
20-25 Minutes	Guidelines: Need for human connections; extended family of adoption
25-30 Minutes	Guidelines: Avoid secrets
30-35 Minutes	Guidelines: Tell the truth
35-40 Minutes	Guidelines: Use a strengths perspective
40-45 Minutes	Guidelines: Use attachment theory and methods
45-50 Minutes	Guidelines Use trauma-informed practices
50-60 Minutes	Summary

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265 Reviews

by Member on July 2, 2025

Excellent exploration of the complexities of adoption, clinical frameworks, and current perspectives that move beyond old assumptions.

by Trisha on May 26, 2025

good brief overview of main issues

by Member on April 11, 2025

Presenter used a lot of examples which was helpful.

by Teresa on January 25, 2021

I was assigned to be an adoption supervisor in a large California Social Services Agency County agency in the 1980's. I was licensed but had no adoption specific training. We had a staff position called a "matching coordinator" That person had pictures of adoptable children and people asking for adoption. She would literally hold up pictures to look to see how skin color matched up. (She was a white, adoptive mother herself) We primarily had children of color in our system who were eligible for adoption. I asked if I could go speak in the community to populations ( such a Black churches) that reflected our children. I was told no. We would hold monthly adoptive parents orientations and from those who attended it was obvious they were looking for healthy, white babies. At that time it was also highly controversial to not have bi-racial adoptions. Needless to say, I did not last very long in this position. Now so many years later there remains clinical questions and concerns around adoption issues that I still question. I believe this is a population which has little, if any representation, in our society.There are so many issues going on with our children, who will advocate for them. Thank you for bringing attention to these issues.

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Presented By

Deborah H. Siegel
PhD LICSW, DCSW, ACSW

Dr. Siegel is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College. She has also taught social work on the faculties at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Auburn University and as an Edith Abbott fellow at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. She has published research on a 22-year-long study of families living with open adoptions; and she has published numerous journal articles, chapters in books, and encyclopedia articles on other aspects of the adoption experience. Dr. Siegel is co-author of books on how to help struggling teens, many of whom have been adopted, and she has been instrumental in passing legislation allowing adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates.

Dr. Siegel also co-teaches a course titled “Homelessness: Clinical and Policy Interventions” and a course at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School titled “Homelessness and Healthcare.” Her fieldwork has included providing clinical services with mothers experiencing homelessness who have lost custody of their children, street outreach with interdisciplinary teams using trauma-informed approaches to engage people experiencing homelessness in services, and collaborating with a range of community organizations doing program development and advocacy at the legislative and executive levels of government. She has published articles on homelessness in the journal, Social Work Education, and in Social Work Today.

In addition, Dr. Siegel actively engages in legislative advocacy on a range of other human service issues, and she is a consultant, trainer, and conference presenter for many agencies across the United States.

Presenter Disclosure: Financial disclosures: Dr. Deborah H. Siegel received an honorarium for presenting this course. She has published research on a 22-year-long study of families living with open adoptions; and she has published numerous journal articles, chapters in books, and encyclopedia articles on other aspects of the adoption experience. Dr. Siegel is co-author of books on how to help struggling teens, many of whom have been adopted, and she has been instrumental in passing legislation allowing adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates. Dr. Siegel actively engages in legislative advocacy on a range of other human service issues, and she is a consultant, trainer, and conference presenter for many adoption agencies across the United States. Non-financial disclosures: Dr. Deborah H. Siegel has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.

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