201 Preparing Children for Adoption

Content
Training Outline

Handouts
Guide to Handouts
Handout 1: Learning Objectives
Handout 2: Agenda
Handout 3: Our Responses to Personal Loss and Grief
Handout 4: The Effects of Children’s Developmental Level on Preparing Them for Adoption
Handout 5: Guidelines for the Preparation Process
Handout 6: Tasks to be Accomplished in Preparing Children for Adoption
Handout 7: Tips for Preparing Children for Adoption
Handout 8: Easing the Transition for Verbal Children
Handout 9: Preplacement Visits with Preverbal Children
Handout 10: Direct Work with Children
Handout 11: Communicating with Children
Handout 12: Time Line
Handout 13: Developing a Lifebook
Handout 14: EcoMap
Handout 15: The Family Tree Project
Handout 16: Genogram Symbols
Handout 17: Designing Rituals
Handout 18: Scenarios
Handout 19: References

Overheads
Guide to Overheads
Overhead 1: Learning Objectives
Overhead 2: Agenda
Overhead 3: Stages of Grieving
Overhead 4: Caseworkers need to . . .
Overhead 5: Developmental Stages
Overhead 6: Guidelines for the Preparation Process
Overhead 7: Goals of the Preplacement Visit
Overhead 8: Direct Work with Children
Overhead 9: Steps in Disengagement Work