When Biology Disrupts Identity: Trauma-Informed Responses to Misattributed Parentage

Objectives:
1. Explore how misattributed parentage can affect children’s and adult’s mental health (e.g., grief, anxiety, identity confusion) and how these impacts shape trauma-informed assessment and treatment planning.

2. Build practical, trauma-informed ways to support youth and adults with complex, unknown, or undisclosed origin stories—prioritizing emotional and physical safety, choice, and trust.

3. Strengthen your caregiver-coaching skills to guide healthy, developmentally appropriate disclosure conversations and support emotional attunement and identity coherence over time