Clinical Work with Young Children in Foster Care Workshop
Tuesday, December 3rd 2024
1:00-2:00 PM
Via Zoom
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Presented by Susan Chinitz Psy.D.
This presentation will offer guidance to practitioners on providing clinical and therapeutic support to young children who are in foster care. It will review the life experiences of children who enter foster care as infants or toddlers, often including attachment disorders or attachment disruptions, sometimes augmented by other losses and traumatic experiences. It will also review common characteristics of parents of young children who are involved in the child welfare system. The workshop will describe the various members and roles of children’s court teams, as well as characteristics of the child welfare system that provide the context for this complex clinical work. It will describe common emotional and behavioral presentations and diagnostic issues, and will offer information on evidence-based interventions for young children in foster care. The workshop will also provide other resources and strategies that clinicians can use in their therapeutic work with young children, including specialized picture books for young children, guidelines for parent-child visits, and relationship building between parents and children’s alternate caregivers.
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