Ametheo offers clinical consultation to Adoption Competent Therapists and local agencies.
Ametheo’s mission is to provide healing and support for adoptive families and to provide education and support for adoptive parents and adoption competent therapists.
This occurs through:
Intensive In-home Therapy
Adoption Support Groups
Relational Healing Seminars
Adoption Competency Training
Clinical Consultation Groups
Adoptive families need to create a therapeutic environment in their own home. In order to gain a better sense of the home environment, the therapist enters the home space and assists the family in recognizing how to create a place of healing. This is not just adjusting the physical environment, but also utilizing the sacred home space to model healthy family interaction. The therapist also assists parents to adjust their discipline style. Often parents are trapped in a cycle of using control oriented discipline to reduce behaviors which is more prone to activate the trauma response. Using relational healing, parents learn to discipline in a way that is designed to teach the child healthy ways of being rather than simply eliminating symptomatic behavior in the moment. Intensive treatment varies in time and intensity and is designed according to the family’s needs.
In partnership with Heartland for Children, Ametheo offers Adoption Competency Training to therapists and professionals in adoption. The curriculum has been provided by the State of Florida and Rutgers University and focuses on both family centered therapy and trauma informed care. Therapists who understand the underlying trauma experienced by adoptees may then communicate the needs for safety and love in the adoptive family. Adoption competent therapists and specialists understand the developmental approach and the parenting styles that best fit adoptive children.
This training includes 7 days of 6 hours for 42 CEUs provided by the Daniel Foundation. The dates are usually scheduled bi-weekly so professionals do not have to take too many consecutive days away from their work. Dates for Fall 2015 are to be announced.
To provide healing and support for adoptive families and to provide education and support for adoptive parents and adoption competent therapists.
