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

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Explaining Adoption from Infants to Seven Year Olds; Explaining Adoption from Ages Eight to Twelve; Explaining Adoption from Ages Twelve to Fifteen; Explaining Adoption from Ages Sixteen to Nineteen; Trigger Times for Grief in Adopted Children; Core Issues for Adoptive Parents; The First Four Suggestions of Telling; Suggestions Five and Six; Suggestions Seven, Eight and Nine; The Life-Book Technique; Sharing About Abandonment; Sharing About Abuse; Sharing About Rape and Incest; Seven Steps of the Negative Spiral; Child Adoption in a Therapeutic Culture Part I: Therapeutic Problems and Solutions in Adoption; Child Adoption in a Therapeutic Culture Part II: Therapeutic Government & Difference; Adoptee Genetic Dispositions & Adoptive Parent Psychopathology; Psychological Stress in Adoptive Parents of Special-Needs Children; The Postadoption Experience: Child, Parent, & Family Predictors of Adjustment; Teenage Adoptions Part I: Overview and Therapeutic Approaches; Teenage Adoptions Part II:And more...