Many agencies require a certain amount of training before approving your homestudy or sending your dossier. If your agency is one of them, most (if not all) of the below may count towards your required time. Check with your agency. If your agency does not require the training, these are all very information and useful training programs to go through anyway!
Adoption Learning Partners
http://www.adoptionlearningpartners.org*
Free courses on topics such as adoption tax credit, Lifebooks, let's talk about adoption, journey of attachment, and many more. It is $30 to receive the online certificate in each course
Foster Care & Adoptive Community Distance Learning
http://www.fosterparentstest.com/store/*
Inexpensive (Most course under $4) for foster and/or adoptive parents on 66 topics including: childhood physical and emotional development birth through teen years, hyperactivity, post traumatic stress disorder, behavioral issues such as lying, cheating, learning disorders, how to advocate for your child in school, fetal alcohol syndrome, etc. They are approved for social workers to use for continuing ed in some states, so they should be good if your social worker suggests training, or just for general learning.
Adoption Preparation: Adopting the Older Child
http://home.universalclass.com/i/crn/13456.html*
An online course in adopting an older child with lessons such as joys and challenges of adopting the older child, day to day living with the older child, evaluating yourself, where do I start, support and resources. Fee is $39 – basic, $57 to get the certificate.
Training Courses for Adopting the International Child
http://www.bgcenterschool.org/CourseLibrary/Courses.shtml*
Several training course specifically geared to adopting a child internationally and the issues you will face after placement such as: School issues- behavioral and language, hosting children abroad, helping your child develop a foundation of learning, psycho-educational screening, etc. Course are around $29 each.
Project Katherine
http://www.projectkatherine.org*
A non-profit organization created to assist families with post institutional children, typically children adopted internationally. Project Katherine recognizes that raising a Post Institutional child has unique needs.
An example: Pre-Adoption Vaccines -- http://www.projectkatherine.org/vaccinations/Presentation_Files/ *
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology offered By American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/journals/ccp/ *
The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP) publishes original contributions on the following topics: (a) the development, validity, and use of techniques of diagnosis and treatment of disordered behavior; (b) studies of a variety of populations that have clinical interest; (c) studies that have a cross-cultural or demographic focus and are of interest for treating behavior disorders; (d) studies of personality and of its assessment and development; (e) studies of gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation; (f) studies of psychosocial aspects of health behaviors; and (g) methodologically sound case studies pertinent to the preceding topics. PDF articles.