
Symposium on Adoption Considerations with Michael Trout
3-Part Symposium
Thank you for joining us as we welcome Michael Trout and other experts in the field to discuss Adoption Considerations. During this 3-part Symposium, a variety of speakers will discuss topics including:
- Mental life of the first mother
- Possibility of dissociation defense to protect from impending grief
- Impacts that emotional withdrawal may have on the prenate
- Relationship with the adoptive parents
- What can be done about these considerations?
APPPAH’s Symposium for Adoption Considerations will be held on
3 consecutive Thursdays, 12:00- 2:00 pm Eastern-
October 27, November 3, November 10
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Session One
October 27, 2022, 12-2 pm EDT
The Mental Life of the Intended Adoptee and the First Mother
Presenters: Michael Trout and Tiffany Junker-Sudela
Session Two
November 3, 2022, 12-2 pm EDT
Part 1: Supporting Connection Between the Intended Adoptee and the First Mother, Before Birth
Presenter: Rebecca Molitor
Part 2: Social and Cultural Issues in Adoption: Thoughts From a Half-Century Career
Presenter: Sharon Roszia
Session Three
November 10, 2022, 12-2 pm EDT
Part 1: Understanding the Attachment Narrative of the Adoptive Parent: Can We Enhance the Match?
Presenter: Karen Buckwalter
Part 2: Final Discussion with all presenters
Tiffany Sudela-Junker
Rebecca Molitor. LCPC
Sharon Roszia
Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW
Michael Trout, MA
In the mental health field since 1968, and in private practice since 1979, Mr. Trout directs an institute engaged in research, clinical practice and clinical training related to problems of attachment. He was the founding president of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health and the International Association for Infant Mental Health, was on the charter Editorial Board of the Infant Mental Health Journal, served as Vice-President for the United States for the World Association for Infant Mental Health, and served on the Professional Advisory Council, the Board of Directors and as Editor of the Newsletter for APPPAH–Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
In addition to publishing a number of book chapters and journal articles–as well as the 2005 book, co-authored with a foster/adopt mother, The Jonathon Letters, and the 2008 Baby Verses: The Narrative Poetry of Infants and Toddlers–Mr. Trout has produced 16 documentary films that are in use in universities and clinics around the world, including five films on the unique perspective of babies on divorce, adoption, loss, domestic violence and parental incarceration. His meditation CD for foster and adoptive parents is entitled The Hope-Filled Parent. He co-authored See Me as A Person: Creating Therapeutic Relationships with Patients and their families, with Mary Koloroutis. His final book, This Hallowed Ground: Four Decades in Infant Mental Health, was published as an audiobook in 2019; the print edition will be released by Cambridge Scholars in late 2021. Mr. Trout won the Selma Fraiberg Award in 1984, for “…significant contributions to the needs of infants and their families”, and a Lifetime Achievement Award by ATTACh, “for his decades of work with children of loss and trauma”.
The most important part of Mr. Trout’s work was always in the quiet private practice where he saw families and children of all ages every week. After 46 years, he retired in the summer of 2014.