Understanding How Parents’ Histories Impact their Parenting

This course discusses the importance of recognizing that we all have “stuff” in our history that we bring to relationships. Specifically, the speaker focuses on understanding how a parent’s own past traumas can affect their parenting. Throughout the course there is a focus on how to gain an awareness of this “baggage” and ways to cope with it so that we can feel more successful as parents.

Megan Montgomery, LMSW – International Adoption Coordinator, AdoptionSTAR

Course length: 60 minutes
Course level: Beginning, Intermediate
Certificate type: This course offers a Social Work CE certificate

Credit type: General CE

After attending this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe “inner voice”
• Explain the role trauma plays on the brain
• Identify personal parenting triggers
• Examine how “instinctive” reactions may be related to personal experiences

Updated 4/9/25

National Council For Adoption, #1804, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 04/13/2023 – 04/13/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

This course does not offer credit for NJ or NY social workers. More information on continuing education credits is available here.