Family mediation with foster families
We invite you to the certification program "Family Mediation with Foster Families", aimed at developing family mediators’ knowledge, skills, and competencies for working on cases involving families engaged in various forms of family-based child care, taking into account the psycho-physiological development of children and the specific dynamics of such family systems.
16 000
UAH
Cost (payment by installments is possible)
48
hours
16 hours of theory + 32 hours of practice
Format: online/offline
70
%
of practical work (exercises, role plays)
Specifics of foster families
Types of conflicts in foster families
Parents in divorce
Disputes over rights and obligations when a couple has adopted a child and is divorcing.
Different families, common children
Conflicts between spouses who have adopted siblings from a large family.
Foster parents vs. child
Misunderstandings associated with adapting and upbringing a foster child.
Conflicts with professionals
Disagreements with teachers, social workers or other specialists.
Contacts with biological relatives
Disputes about meetings or parental responsibility for the foster child.
Training format
Up to 70% of practical work: exercises to develop skills, personal exercises for better understanding of your emotions, role plays.
Groups of up to 20 people for quality feedback.
Interactive format of “immersion” in practice, discussing cases and answering participants' questions.
Program Objectives
To explore the concepts of: adoption, guardianship/custodianship, foster families, family-type orphanages, and patronage families.
To study the issue of "attachment disorders" in children who have lived in institutional care.
To examine the psychological and behavioral challenges faced by families raising foster children.
To explore and reflect on personal and societal introjects regarding orphans and children deprived of parental care, as well as families raising such children.
To develop communication skills with children deprived of parental care, considering their age and history of detachment and mistrust.
To analyze different models of functioning in families with foster children (e.g., only foster children; biological older + foster younger children; biological younger + foster older children; "adoption secrecy"; degree of involvement of third parties, including biological parents, etc.).
To practice mediation skills in cases involving foster parents and children deprived of parental care.
What do you get?
Overview of the program
Family-based forms of child care
Specific dynamics of families with both biological and foster (including step) children
Myths and introjects about foster children and foster parents
Deprivation in children deprived of parental care
Behavioral traits of children who lived in institutions
Specifics of the mediator's role in cases where an adopted (foster) child is a party
Specifics of direct consultation with adopted children and children under guardianship/custodianship
The concept and types of attachment
Development of attachment disorders from conception to puberty
Mediation cases involving biological and foster parents
Mediation cases involving biological and foster children
Art therapy techniques for working with foster children in mediation
Hanna Bobnieva – family mediator accredited to work with children, trainer, mentor, and supervisor of mediators, as well as a psychotherapist.
Specialization: child-inclusive mediation, foster families, and conflicts related to child abduction and alienation.
Member of the NGO "Association of Family Mediators of Ukraine".
Co-founder of the NGO "Family Center "Dotyk".
Tetiana Bilyk is an accredited international mediator (CEDR, UK, 2009; MiKK, Germany, 2022), trainer, and Chair of the Board of the NGO ITC "Mediation School". She is also the Chair of the Board of the NGO "Ukrainian Mediators League" and co-founder and Chair of the Supervisory Board of the NGO "Association of Family Mediators of Ukraine".
She serves as the representative of ISS (International Social Service, General Secretariat, Switzerland) in Ukraine within the framework of cooperation on international family mediation.
Tetiana is a member of the Institute for Integrative Mediation (Germany), a member of the Family Mediators Association (UK), a practicing psychologist, and a psychotherapist.
