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title: "A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence among Mental Health Providers"
description: This paper seeks to raise the level of awareness among mental health professionals about the nature and importance of adoption clinical competence, heighten their desire to receive such training, and identify different means by which the relevant knowledge and skills…
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/adoption-competence/a-need-to-know-enhancing-adoption-competence-among-mental-health-providers/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Adoption Competent Mental Health
tags:
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Mental health professionals
  - Report
---

# A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence among Mental Health Providers

This paper seeks to raise the level of awareness among mental health professionals about the
 nature and importance of adoption clinical competence, heighten their desire to receive such
 training, and identify different means by which the relevant knowledge and skills can be
 obtained. Existing post-graduate adoption training programs are identified and described, and recommendations are offered for improving clinical services to members of the adoptive
 kinship system and enhancing their awareness of and access to these services.

 

[Read More](https://njarch.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2013_08_ANeedToKnow.pdf)

 

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