Foster Care Training

The focus of this training is to better understand how heightened stress and mental health challenges that system involved youth and families face can lead them to turn to food, substance use, and other repetitive behaviors as a way of attempting to soothe themselves. The Self-Medication Theory and Prochaska’s Stages of Change in conjunction with Meyer’s Minority Stress Model will be covered as ways to conceptualize and better understand this way of self-soothing.