In this course, we will cover the joys and challenges that marriages and partnerships may experience when parenting children impacted by trauma, including managing complicated family dynamics, the stressors that affect these significant relationships, and strategies to re-prioritize and maintain a healthy marriage or partnership. The instructors for this course are Jeremy & Jara Walden, authors of the book, The Heart Work of Foster Care: A Hopeful and Honest Guide to Foster Parenting.
This course covers the following learning objectives:
- Identify three factors that make parenting foster and adopted kids more challenging.
- Define triangulation and describe how it can impact your relationship with your partner.
- List two actions to help strengthen your partner relationship while fostering or adopting.
- Identify two parenting techniques to incorporate into your home when adopting or fostering.
Outline for Maintaining a Healthy Marriage or Partnership.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.
