Online Professional Training on Foster and Adoptive Care

介绍(申请人提供)：我们建议开发和测试一系列在线互动多媒体培训课程，供个案工作者和心理健康治疗师学习与寄养、收养和亲属关系护理相关的特殊问题。儿童保育系统中的提供者不充分了解这一人群的独特临床特征，也不了解如何在复杂的儿童保育系统中提供治疗。这些课程旨在帮助提供者更好地了解、诊断、治疗和管理寄养和领养儿童，并支持抚养他们的家庭。为这些专业人员提供专门培训是儿童保育系统整体改革进程的一个重要方面。拟议的在线培训将极大地改善从业人员获得关于这些专门主题的高质量和全面培训的机会。在第一阶段，我们将制作一门关于寄养护理、亲情护理和特殊需要收养的家庭动力学课程，这是12门课程中的第一门。该课程将在全国范围内以个案工作者和心理健康治疗师为样本进行评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose developing and testing a series of online interactive multimedia training courses for caseworkers and mental health therapists on special issues relating to foster, adoptive, and kinship care. Providers in the child care system do not adequately understand the unique clinical characteristics of this population, nor how to provide treatment in a complex child care system. The courses are intended to help providers to better understand, diagnose, treat, and manage foster and adoptive children and to support the families who raise them. Providing these professionals with specialized training is a critical aspect of the overall reform process of the child care system. The proposed online training would dramatically improve practitioners' access to high quality and comprehensive training on these specialized topics. In Phase I, we will produce a course on Family Dynamics in Foster Care, Kinship Care, and Special Needs Adoption, the first of 12 courses. The course will be evaluated with a sample of caseworkers and mental health therapists, nationally.