(IAP)Adoption: Telling the Child about Rape, Incest and Other Birth Circumstances

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Children's Understanding of Adoption; Family Conflict; Birth Family Thoughts for Adolescents (Part 1); Birth Family Thoughts for Adolescents (Part 2); Grief and the Challenge of Adoption; Adoptive Parents; Family Conversation (Part 1); Family Conversation (Part 2); Family Conversation (Part 3); Adoption and Cognitive Development; Stages of Development; Preadoptive Child Maltreatment; Rape Narratives and Incest Disclosure; Adoptive Dissolution; 20th Century Adoption Revolution; The Chosen Child: Emotional Inoculation against Shock; Psychopathology of Adoptive Parents; Family in Crisis: Adoption of Special-Needs Children; Adoption Disruptions: Negative Parental Attitude or Child Behavior?; Precarious Teenage Adoptions: Resilience vs. Trauma; Teenage Adoption Case Study: Doubly Deprived; Teenage Adoption: Risk, Turbulence & Anguish; 3 Components to Fighting Racism in Intercountry Adoption; Warning on the Dangers of Holding Therapy, Foster Care; Adoption & Holding Therapy: Harmful or Helpful?; Adoption Attachment Theories; and Major Federal Legislation Concerned With Child Protection, Child Welfare, and Adoption.