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How to Develop a Life Book for Children in Foster Care or Adoptive Families with Emily Yang LSCW
1:00 PMWednesday, August 27 2025
12:00 PMWednesday, August 27 2025
11:00 AMWednesday, August 27 2025
10:00 AMWednesday, August 27 2025
9:00 AMWednesday, August 27 2025
7:00 AM
Emily Yang, LCSW, is the Director of Recruitment at A Home Within and a Child Therapist with over 15 years experience working with youth in foster care and adoptive families. She spent several years working with children in treatment foster homes and as an Intensive In-Community Clinician where she provided in-home therapy to many children in the foster care system. She volunteers as a Consultation Group Leader for A Home Within and sits on the Professional Advisory Board of Miriam’s Heart, a non-profit which supports local adoptive and foster families. She is trained in Child Centered Play Therapy and in Trust Based Relational Intervention, a therapeutic model that guides caregivers in providing effective support and treatment for children with attachment injuries.
Life books are a tool used to help children in foster care and adoptive families write down the narrative of their history, their present and their future. This workshop will explain the purposes of life books, how to effectively engage a child in creating one, and how life books can be used to support development of attachment between parent and child.
This course is eligible for 1.5 continuing education credits.
This course is suitable for Psychologists, LMHCs, MFTs, Social Workers, LPCs, and Counselors.
10:00 AM -10:05 AM Brief introduction
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM Purposes of Lifebooks
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM How to Create a Life Book
10:40AM - 11:20 AM How to engage children effectively in Life Book work
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM Q&A time
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to:
- Identify at least two strategies for integrating cultural attunement into the life book process and apply these strategies in creating culturally affirming narratives with clients who experienced foster care.
- Describe two effective strategies for engaging a child in developing a life book in a way that fosters emotional connection and self-understanding.