In this course, parents and caregivers will learn strategies and routines to promote attachment through regulation. The instructor is Jeanette Yoffe, MA, MFT, a psychotherapist specializing in adoption and foster care with over 20 years of experience treating children with complex trauma. Her book, The Traumatized and At-Risk Youth Toolbox: Over 160 Attachment-Informed Interventions for Working with Kids and Families in Foster Care and Beyond offers tools for parents and caregivers to create the conditions for their kids to thrive.
This course covers the following learning objectives:
- Describe co-regulation.
- List 3 types of sensory adaptations that help create emotional safety for a child.
- Define PACE.
- Identify 2 benefits of occupational therapy for children who have experienced trauma.
Outline for Attachment-Informed Tools for Working with Kids.pdf
*This course includes a 1-hour conversational audio lesson, a 10-question quiz, and a certificate of completion with the successful completion of the quiz at 80%.
Your course will remain active for 180 days from purchase date.
Prenatal Substance Exposure Workshop
For Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Parents
Do you know or suspect your child was exposed prenatally to alcohol or drugs? Do you know the symptoms? Looking for strategies to support emotional dysregulation, lagging social skills, difficulty with executive functioning, and more?
Creating a Family offers this evidence-based, trauma-informed workshop to help parents recognize the signs and symptoms of prenatal exposure and train them on techniques that work best with these kids. We are able to offer several free workshops with the support of the Jockey Being Family® Foundation.
Creating a Family offers this evidence-based, trauma-informed workshop to help parents recognize the signs and symptoms of prenatal exposure and train them on techniques that work best with these kids. We are able to offer several free workshops with the support of the Jockey Being Family® Foundation.
