6 Tips for Helping Your Foster Child Transition Into Your Home and Family By Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Tips for Transitioning a foster child into your home and family is a delicate process that requires patience, empathy, and understanding.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Sep 53 min read
Building Trust in Foster Families with Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Building trust in a foster family can be challenging but is essential for creating a stable and supportive environment for foster children.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Jul 114 min read
Coping with Grief Through the Creative Arts with Jeanette Yoffe
Coping with Grief through the creative arts is a powerful tool is engaging in creative arts as a means to navigate the challenging journey.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Jun 72 min read
How to Make an Adoptee Timeline? By Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Creating a timeline can be an empowering way for adult adoptees to understand and reflect on their life experiences. Here are the steps.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Apr 25, 20236 min read
Genetic Mirroring - Why Is it Important in Adoption?
Why is Genetic Mirroring Important in Adoption? Because it provides a basis of familiarity with your cultural, ethnic, and racial roots.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
May 26, 20227 min read
Helping Children Process Scary and Terrifying Events by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Just because your child is not talking about a scary event, does not mean they are not actively thinking about it!
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
May 2, 20222 min read
How to Explain Child Welfare (Foster Care) to a Child by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
How to explain foster care to a child with Jeanette Yoffe, Foster Care Expert in Los Angeles
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Feb 7, 20222 min read
How to Explain Adoption to a Child by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
How to Explain Adoption to a Child by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Sometimes families just can't live together and a plan for adoption is made...."
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Jan 15, 20224 min read
12 Ways to Support Teens by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Understand there are 4 developmental tasks of adolescents explained by Jeanette Yoffe
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Oct 28, 20214 min read
How To Support Children Who are Hard on Themselves: The Shamewich Technique by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T
Jeanette Yoffe explains excessive shame prevents the development of guilt and also prevents children from accepting responsibility. Learn...
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Oct 19, 20213 min read
How To Find The Right Therapist by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Jeanette Yoffe says the best predictor of therapy having a good outcome, is the quality of “relationship” between the therapist and client.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Aug 9, 20212 min read
Ways Foster and Adoptive Parents Can Keep Identity Intact by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Watch a training developed by Jeanette about Transracial Adoption and Understanding the impact of identity.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Jul 9, 20212 min read
Recommended Therapy for Children in Foster Care and Adoption by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Recommended Therapy for Children in Foster Care and Adoption by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
May 18, 20212 min read
How to P-A-C-E Yourself In The World Right Now By Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
How to Pace yourself when life is overwhelming. Follow Jeanette Yoffe's Tips based in attachment theory.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Mar 17, 20203 min read
Questions and Answers BOX Intervention for Fostered and Adopted Children by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Jeanette Yoffe's Intervention for children to ask questions about the loss of their parents due to foster care, adoption or traumatic grief.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Sep 19, 20196 min read
Attachment Parenting: Building Safety & Trust With Foster & Adopted Children/Teens by Jeanette Yoffe
Attachment parenting techniques for building emotional safety and trust with foster and adopted children and teens with Jeanete Yoffe.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Sep 5, 20195 min read
Understanding a Foster and/or Adoptee’s Challenges Paves the Way to Parenting by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Assumptions a parent must make when parenting a foster child or adopted child with attachment challenges. Learn more with Jeanette Yoffe
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
May 10, 20198 min read
Attachment Intervention: Help Foster & Adopted Children Grieve to Find Joy by Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T
Attachment Interventions for Foster and Adoptive Families to help children grieve and find joy.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Nov 1, 20183 min read
10 Intervention Tips for Bonding & Attaching with Foster and Adopted Children by Jeanette Yoffe MFT
10 Tips for Bonding with your Foster and Adopted Child by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Nov 11, 20165 min read
Sad Bag For Childhood Grief and Loss Developed by Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.
Helping Children with Grief and Loss. A Sad Bag Coping Skills Intervention by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Grief expert.
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Jeanette writes about many topics related to mental health, growing up in foster care and adoption, foster and adoptive parenting, and best practices in mental health for children, teens, adults, and their families.
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