Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally - Creating a Family Adoption and Foster Care Education
In this course, we will talk about the process of adoption and the common health, developmental, and emotional issues in children being adopted through intercountry adoption.
The instructor will be Dr. Kimara Gustafson, M.D., M.P.H., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, a Faculty Member in the Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience, and a pediatrician at the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota.
Our second instructor is Dr. Katie Stone, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Minnesota Medical School. She is part of the Psychology team at the Adoption Medicine Clinic providing expertise on mental and behavioral health, attachment, and social-emotional development. Her Ph.D. is in Clinical Child Psychology.
This course includes the following learning objectives:
Understand the factors that lead to children around the world to be in state care and to need adoptive families.
Understand the intercountry adoption process.
Understand the common emotional, developmental, and health issues for children adopted internationally.
Understand the common assimilation issues for internationally adopted children.
To register: Creating a Family - HEDICCAI
