Continuing Education
| Adoptive & Foster Care Issues | ||||||||||||||||||||
Work with foster and adoptive families is a challenging and rewarding endeavor. This course presents a survey of issues and concerns related to this population. Participants will learn how to work with families and children regarding issues such as bonding and attachment, stages of placement and its effect on the family, core issues of adoption, and clinical issues common to foster/adoptive families including transracial placement. After taking this course, participants will be able to engage in more effective treatment planning, clinical intervention and case management for the individuals, children and families involved. Instructor Biography Craig Clark, MFT, is assistant professor and a core faculty member for the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at JFK University. His interests include adoption issues, fostering children, parenting techniques with oppositional children, Asperger’s Syndrome, attachment and bonding, grief and loss issues, trauma, abuse, ADHD, chemical dependency and couples and family therapy. In addition to coordinating the specialization in child and adolescent therapy, he teaches child and adolescent treatment, psychopathology and advanced treatment seminars, and he supervises interns at the Sunnyvale Counseling Center. Craig maintains a private practice in Santa Clara and Soquel. |
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