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Adapting a Child-Centered Adoptive Transition Model to Atypical Situations
3:00 PMFriday, October 30 2026
2:00 PMFriday, October 30 2026
1:00 PMFriday, October 30 2026
12:00 PMFriday, October 30 2026
11:00 AMFriday, October 30 2026
9:00 AM
Redmond Reams, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and is Chair of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. He has over 40 years of psychotherapy experience and currently sees adults, as well as infants/toddlers and their families. His research and policy interests focus on adoptive transitions, infant and toddler mental health, and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy and supervision. He is the author of the recently published book, “Finding the Way to Home: A Child-Centered Approach to Transitioning Children from Foster to Adoptive Families.”
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 training will present how the model can be adapted for certain atypical situations: when a sibling group is being moved together into an adoptive home, long-distance adoptions, adoption of a child after they have experienced a prior disrupted adoption, and adoption of a child when they have only been with their current resource family for a relatively short period of time.
This course is eligible for 2 continuing education credits.
This course is suitable for Psychologists, LMHCs, MFTs, Social Workers, LPCs, and Counselors.
Intermediate
12:00–12:05pm Welcome
12:05–12:20pm Overview of the model
12:30–12:50pm Sibling groups moving together
12:50–1:10pm Long-distance adoptions
1:10–1:30pm Adoption after a prior disrupted adoption
1:30–1:45pm Most recent foster placement is relatively short-term
1:45–2:00pm Discussion
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
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List 2 recommendations for adaptations to adoptive transition procedures when atypical situations occur
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Identify 2 attachment implications for adoptive transitions in varying atypical situations