This session will explore how adoption professionals can use self-assessment tools to support meaningful self-reflection among pre-adoptive and adoptive parents. Participants will learn how to utilize tools that promote caregiver engagement, insight, and self-discovery. The session will offer strategies for helping parents assess their strengths and identify opportunities for growth across key adoptive parent competencies. This practical guidance will not only strengthen pre-adoption assessment and approval processes, but will also provide foundations for long-term adoptive parent growth and learning.
Stephanie Hodge Wolfe, MSW, LSW, LSFW - Founder and Principal, The Academy for Child Welfare Practice, LLC
Course length: 90 minutes
Course level: Beginning, Intermediate
Certificate type: This course offers a Social Work CE certificate
Credit type: General CE
After attending this course, professionals will be able to:
- Describe how self-reflection can enhance caregiver insight, readiness, and long-term capacity to parent.
- Give examples of key adoptive parent competencies.
- Explain strategies for tailoring training and support to address pre-adoptive families' identified areas for growth.
- Identify ways to strengthen pre-adoptive parent training processes to promote long-term caregiver development and placement stability.
Recorded 7/30/25
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 general continuing education credits.
This course does not offer credit for NJ or NY social workers. More information on continuing education credits is available here.
