This training explores how attachment experiences, relational trauma, and caregiving disruptions shape the relational expectations of youth who have experienced foster care.

This training will assist child psychotherapists in providing input for what the child's needs are in the transition.

This foundational session reframes deception in foster youth — lying, concealment, minimization — as adaptive protection rather than defiance or pathology.

There are many forms of grief that go unrecognized.

Using a child-centered model for adoptive transitions prioritizes the child's needs around attachment to the adoptive parents and prioritizes loss issues in the change of the relationship with the resource parents.

This session maps how protective strategies in foster youth evolve across development — from the transparent concealment of latency to the sophisticated relational management of adolescence — while their underlying protective function remains constant.

We will explore how to engage endings honestly and with care — and how a thoughtful, mutual goodbye can itself become one of the most healing experiences we offer.

This session addresses the core clinical stance of the series as it applies to foster youth.

This integrating session addresses the ethical terrain of applying a protection-informed stance with foster youth.