Training Title:
Retired ~ Foster Care, Part F, Psychotherapy with Psychologically Traumatized Children in Foster Care

Clock Hours: 1

Objectives:
Understand what is involved in treating an abused toddler.

Description:
Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issues of foster care and parental alternatives from a number of viewpoints, with a special emphasis on understanding attachment theory and trauma, which are both the backdrops and main features in work with this population. Cynthia Monahon, Ph.D., Psychology, takes us through several years of psychotherapy with a preschool girl severely abused as a toddler by her parents and then moved from multiple foster homes until finding adoptive parents. Using drawings and doll play, Dr. Monahon tenderly helped the adoptive mother weather the turbulence in her relationship with this little girl.

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