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FST05 Fostercare - Parental Alternatives Foster Care and Sexual Abuse (inactive)
Sexual Abuse and Foster Care
Course Objective
This program provides clinicians with the opportunity to learn about:

• Psychotherapy and sexually abuse children living in foster care
• The importance of community
• The therapeutic relationship
Intended Audience
Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Therapists 
Author Bio
Toni Vaughn Heineman, D.M.H., is the founder and Executive Director of A Home Within, the only national organization focused exclusively on the emotional well-being of foster youth. She is Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco in Psychiatry and has been in private practice in San Francisco, working with adults, children, and families for over 30 years. Dr. Heineman consults with individuals and organizations. She is the author of several articles on psychotherapy with children and has made numerous presentations to lay and professional audiences about the mental health issues facing children and parents. She authored An Abused Child: Psychodynamic Understanding and Treatment and co-edited Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care.  She has been awarded a Leadership Fellowship with Zero to Three, a Draper Richards Social Entrepreneur Fellowship and a Social Entrepreneur Award from the Manhattan Institute. 
Certificates
ASWB ASWB
NBCC NBCC

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