This post-graduate certificate program, developed through a collaborative partnership between GSSW's Erna and Brad Butler Institute for Families, the Adoption Exchange and the Colorado Department of Human Services, provides advanced training and education in the field of adoption.
The certificate curriculum focuses on specialized theories and practices for working with all members of the adoption triad: birth parents, adoptive parents and adopted individuals. The program emphasizes the development of a framework for understanding the complexity of being a child or adult in a family by adoption, and the therapeutic skills that enable practitioners to work at the individual, couple, group and family levels of clinical practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe current and historical trends in adoption practice in the United States and Colorado.
- Explain and apply the key theoretical perspectives in adoption and their empirical support to cases.
- Explain the adoption life cycle.
- Discuss key treatment issues facing birth and adoptive parents.
- Describe the core issues in adoption and their impact on children, youth and adoptive families.
- Apply the principles of strengths-based, family-centered, culturally competent practice to adoptive families.
- Recognize and describe key issues in clinical practice with children adopted from the child welfare system.
- Explain the key similarities and differences in adoption for infants and older children.
- Apply diagnosis, assessment and intervention strategies with adopted children and their families pertaining to trauma, attachment and neurological issues.
- Explain the key components of a treatment plan for the adopted child and family.
- Apply appropriate therapeutic interventions and effective techniques in practice with adopted children and families.
- Explain the key search and reunion issues for the adoptee.
- Explain the perspectives and implications for practice of the adoptive parent/family and birth parent family on search and reunion.
- Demonstrate the ability to assist children and families in understanding the key issues in transracial and transcultural adoption.
Instructors:
Adrienne Elliott, MSW, LCSW
Jan Tomski, M.A., LMFT
Classroom Instruction Dates and Times:
March 11-12, 2010
April 22-23, 2010
May 6-7, 2010
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm each day
Registration & Payment Deadline:
January 29, 2010
Case Application Dates:
June 10-11, 2010
July 15-16, 2010
August 19-20, 2010
Classroom Instruction Location:
University of Denver
2148 S. High Street - Craig Hall
Boettcher Community Room
Denver, CO 80208
Case Application Location:
University of Denver
2148 S. High Street
Craig Hall, Room 417
Denver, CO 80208
Program Cost:
$979.00 per person
- Payment can be made by check or credit card.
- Checks should be made payable to the University of Denver and mailed to: Butler Institute for Families, University of Denver, 2148 S. High Street, Denver, CO 80208.
- Please note whose registration you are making payment for on any mailed checks.
- To pay by credit card, call (303) 871.4198
Requirements:
MSW or postgraduate degree is required.
CEUs: 20
View the program flyer.
Questions?
Contact Adrienne Elliott at adrienne.elliott@du.edu or (303) 871.4564.
Butler Institute for Families | University of Denver | www.thebutlerinstitute.org |
Denver, CO 80208 | p: 303.871.4435 | f: 303.871.4980
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