The Complex Psychology of Being Adopted: What Clinicians Need to Know
Webcast
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ ...OVERVIEW
The Complex Psychology of Being Adopted: What Clinicians Need to Know is organized by Austen Riggs Center (ARC).
Course opens: 03/18/2024
Course expires: 03/18/2027
Description:
The adoption and mental health fields have viewed adoption as being only about children. Adopted adolescents are a more recent afterthought, with adults nowhere on the radar. From their psychodynamic perspectives on the psychology of being adopted, the presenters maintain that therapists often do not recognize the critical differences between adopted and non-adopted patients, or the need for important modifications in treatment. This requires specialized advanced training. Therapists’ knowledge base needs to include an understanding of early developmental trauma within the first three years of life and its implications for altered neuropsychological development, potentially into adulthood. Intensive psychodynamic treatment provides a pathway toward addressing the likely combination of ambiguous mourning, anxious attachments, fragmented identity formation, and confused sexual development. These stimulate unique complexities in the transference and countertransference and, for the therapist, a deeper appreciation of many universal issues.
Learning Objectives:
• Describe three important modifications needed in the evaluation of an adopted patient.
• Identify three clinical issues relevant to the treatment of adopted adolescents/young adults that would not apply in the same way to those not adopted.
• Explain transference and countertransference complexities that are unique to the treatment of adopted patients.
ACCREDITATION & CREDITS
Available Credit
1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Accreditation Statement - Austen Riggs Center,Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement - Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 APA
The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Enduring for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. The Austen Riggs Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.
1.00 ASWB-ACE
The Austen Riggs Center, #1344, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this Enduring. ACE provider Approval Period: 02/02/2023-2/2/2026. Social workers completing this Enduring will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s). For a listing of jurisdictions that accept ACE, please visit States and provinces that accept ACE | Association of Social Work Boards.
1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
TARGET AUDIENCE
PsychologySPECIALITIES
Psychology
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