---
title: "Adoption Competent Therapy and Trauma-Informed Care"
description: "Adoption competent approaches by their very nature address and target the combined critical issues of attachment and trauma to a child’s development and functioning as they are inextricably intertwined. Adoption competent therapists are trauma-informed and most qualified to help children…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/adoption-competence/adoption-competent-therapy-and-trauma-informed-care/"
updated: "2026-08-19"
category: Adoption Competent Mental Health
tags:
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Families
  - Mental health professionals
  - NC resource
  - Tipsheet
---

# Adoption Competent Therapy and Trauma-Informed Care

Adoption competent approaches by their very nature address and target the combined critical issues of attachment and trauma to a child’s development and functioning as they are inextricably intertwined. Adoption competent therapists are trauma-informed and most qualified to help children and families who have experienced child welfare. Systems that employ and train adoption competent clinicians provide treatments that are responsive to the complex and developmental traumas that children being adopted from foster care have experienced.

 

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[Trauma Informed Care](https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/TraumaInformedCare_v3D.pdf)

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