Adoption: Techniques for Treating Adoptive Parent Issues (CPA)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Motives for Adopting; Four Factors of Parenting; Age, Race and Disabilities in Adoption; Surviving the Wait; Techniques for Breaking the News; Preparing Siblings; Preparing the New Child; The Shock of the Childs Arrival; Seeing as the Child Sees; Trans-Religious Adoption; Sleep Adjustments; Eating Difficulties; Toileting Problems; Three Common Behaviors and Possible Solutions; The Preadoptive Parent and Termination of Parental Rights; Homosexual Adoptive Parents; Africa: Orphans and International Adoption; Post Adoptive Dissolution; Adoption and Same-Sex Coparents; Transracial Adoptions; Research Regarding Transracial Adoption; Cognitive Behavioral Interventions with Adoption; And more...