Jeanette Yoffe is an adoption therapist and foster care expert in Los Angeles. She is also a former foster youth and adoptee. She pecializes in Foster Care and Adoption treating children, teens and adults with serious childhood adverse experiences. She i
The intersection of policy and practice with foster care children raises issues of ruptured attachments, communications between therapists and the larger macrolevel systems, the role of the therapist in the permanency decision process, and the impact of permanency decisions on treatment. An improved ...
adoption,foster care Adaptation. It can take a long time for humans and animals to adapt to a new situation or new lifestyle. However, many adopted and foster children who come from traumatic backgrounds adapt very quickly to new surroundings. This is also true for some children who are adop...
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Question: How can I support siblings who have been separated by foster care or adoption? How can I help them build long-term secure attachments?Resources:Sibling Relationships (Resource page)Working as Part of the Foster Care...
While Daniela has a variety of experience in social work contexts, she has spent most of her career working in foster care and adoption. Daniela Coats is a Licensed Master Social Worker in the state of Texas. She is currently a therapist under supervision at Be Still Counseling and Consulting...
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Career difficulties, Compassion fatigue, Adoption and foster care, Blended family issues, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Divorce and separati...
If that's not possible, the next best solution is to have family members or nearby foster parents take the kids in, and at the same time provide a group of professionals (a therapist, a pediatrician, a social worker, a tutor) to help the kids and the adults. This is called "wraparou...
Helping the Rescue Organization Prepare for Your Foster Cat’s AdoptionYour foster cat is your primary focus. But it’s important to remember, the rescue organization has many, many animals in their care and at various stages of intake, recovery, and adoption. You’re going to want the ...
What happens in the foster care arrangement Ideas to help facilitate healthy relationships The choice to become foster parents is an amazing commitment for a marriage and a family. In addition to being a licensed therapist and registered art therapist, I am a foster and adoptive parent with my ...
DeCarlo is a practicing therapist and she’s exactly the type of person the Denver Department of Human Services is looking to enroll in its Therapeutic Foster Care program. “I think a good candidate who first has really the desire to work with this population. And also has some e...