This recorded webinar focuses on understanding adoption in the healthcare environment and includes a general overview of the landscape of adoption and recent trends. The course provides information about the practice of adoption medicine, including what medical providers need to know about working with adoptees. Speakers also provide information about accessing resources.
Ryan Hanlon, PhD - President, National Council For Adoption
Judith K. Eckerle, MD FAAP - Professor and Director of the Adoption Medicine Clinic, University of Minnesota
Kimara Gustafson, MD - Assistant Professor and Adoption Medicine Specialist, University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics
Course length: 90 minutes
Course level: Beginning
Certificate type: This course offers a Social Work CE certificate
Credit type: General CE
After attending this course, participants will be able to…
- Recall information about recent trends in adoption.
- Recognize the importance of adoption-sensitive language.
- Recall recommendations for medical providers during the first pediatric visit with an adoptee or child in foster care.
- Recognize the importance of the role of seeking out adoption and foster trained medical care.
- Give examples of strategies for supporting adoptees at different ages and developmental stages.
Recorded 8/20/2024
National Council For Adoption, #1804, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 04/13/2023 – 04/13/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.
This course does not offer credit for NJ or NY social workers. More information on continuing education credits is available here. 
