This course is Closed Captioned Disponible en español
Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face. [Also available in Spanish]
This course is Closed Captioned Disponible en español
Explores common physical health issues for children entering care and how parents can collaborate with health care providers to support their children's medical needs. [Also available in Spanish]
This course is Closed Captioned Disponible en español
Dr. Robert Nickel and Susan Edelstein, M.S. discuss the issues and challenges faced by parents who care for substance-exposed infants, including the effects of legal and illegal drugs, multiple substance abuse, working with the child's professional team, and successful parenting strategies. [Also available in Spanish]
Betsy Keefer Smalley, LSW, researcher and foster parent trainer with the Institute for Human Services in Ohio, leads this pre-service course for individuals who want to become foster parents. Child Abuse and Neglect focuses on understanding child physical abuse and neglect, and developing empathy for birth parents. Also covered are how to distinguish between abuse and common, accidental childhood injuries as well as reporting to authorities. Supplemental handouts round out the course. Caution: contains graphic images.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
understand the causes and risk factors of child maltreatment
develop empathy for the birth parents
distinguish between common, accidental childhood injuries and abuse
Thank you for putting together this course. I really appreciated the depth of the presentation and the solid information. The ideas about foster children can still be mistreated is so true. Most children I have had over the years I have been able to manage with my approaches. I currently have one that is very complicated and this course is helping me deal with her.
—Mark H.
I have to take an Abuse and Neglect course yearly because I am also a child care provider, but this course went more in depth than the one I took earlier in the year for my daycare. This course was definitely more educational and in depth. But I totally agree, the burned feet was very hard to look at, and I had to get up to get my box of tissues. It was hard to imagine a child having to go through that, my heart went out to that child and all abused and neglected children. Even my husband gasped when that slide was shown.