Boundaries and Counter-transference When Serving Foster Youth: Best Practices

Sonja Lenz-Rashid, PhD, LCSW

Training Description

The training workshop will take a developmental approach, focusing on the various emotional and physical boundaries that inevitably arise with working with youth and children in foster care, and systems-involved youth. This training will also utilize case vignettes and small group sharing to dig deep into the various counter-transference experiences we may face when working with youth in foster care. It will also cover how counter-transference may impact the assessments we do and interventions we use.

Learning Objective

• Participants will be able to identify situations where they may encounter a foster youth testing the participants’ emotional, physical, or professional boundaries (skill building)

• Participants will apply and practice strategies (via role plays) to respond to foster youth who are testing various professional boundary scenarios (skill building)