National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI)
Whether you are a Child Welfare or Mental Health professional, free web-based National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) is now available!
Adoption Competency (TAC) Program Training
Due to the uncertainty of school schedules and COIVD-19, the TAC start date has been pushed ahead to JANUARY 15, 2021 with a VIRTUAL delivery to keep all healthy! Please register to save your spot!
Finding and Working With Adoption-Competent Therapists
Child Welfare Information Gateway's 2018 Factsheet for Families provides suggestions for finding an adoption-competent therapist and offers information about the types of therapy that can help children who are being raised outside their immediate families.
Adoption Competent Counselor Expertise
A discussion of why it is so difficult to find a mental health professional that knows adoption issues of adoptees, birth family, and adoptive family.
7 Core Issues of Adoption
The parent and child in an adoptive family have an unshared genetic and social history that all must take into account. All should understand the seven core issues of adoption and know that they resurface often in the lives of any member of the adoption triad.
A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence Among Mental Health Professionals
One of their most frequent complaints in adoption is the inability to find mental health care and ancillary service professionals who are adoption-competent – that is, who understand the unique issues associated with adoption.
Selecting and Working With a Therapist Skilled in Adoption
Many different types of professionals provide mental health services. The person or team best suited to work with a particular family will depend on the family’s specific issues, as well as the professional’s training, credentials, and experience with adoptive families.
AFCTN | Adoption & Foster Care Therapist Network
AFCTN strives to increase the statewide access to mental health professionals who have a clinical expertise in adoption, foster care, trauma, and/or attachment issues.
C.A.S.E. | Center for Adoption Support and Education
C.A.S.E. increases awareness of the deep need for adoption competency in mental health services because our families deserve to have access to effective, sensitive and expert care.
Adoption Competent Therapy Vs. Regular Therapy; What is the Difference?
A therapist who is adoption competent has completed accredited training in trauma-based adoption issues. They should not be using the old Reactive Attachment Disorder diagnosis.