title: Training mental health practitioners to work with adoptive families who seek help.
abstract: The lack of appropriate therapeutic resources for adoptive children and their adoptive families who seek treatment is a national problem. The mental health community has failed to recognize the specific knowledge and expertise that therapists must have if they are to help this population. This article describes the initiative taken by one organization to attack this problem in its state.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Backhaus
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003237:Connecticut; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000193:education; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D000078329:Workforce