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The Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency Workbook for Children and Teens
For Professionals and Parents Using the Workbook: We cannot heal what we cannot acknowledge! Our understanding of the Seven Core Issues, Attachment and Trauma enables us to better address the complex challenges and feelings that children and teens experience...
Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency
Adoption, foster and kinship care are important resources for addressing the needs of children in crisis. The majority of adoptions today originate from foster care and kinship caregiving which typically means the child has suffered trauma and/or neglect. Families...
What To Do With All That Anger!
“I hate you!”, “I don’t have to listen to you!”, “Go to hell!”, “You're not my mother/father!”, all of these may be common phrases for children and teens who have experienced trauma, loss, foster care and adoption....
The Lingering Effects of Childhood Trauma
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) are stressful or traumatic events, like abuse, neglect and trauma. They may also include family dysfunction such as witnessing domestic violence or growing up with family members who are addicted to drugs or alcohol....
Brain Development and Parenting
Parents help shape the most complex organ in the universe - the human mind. TRIUNE BRAIN (Paul MacLean, l978) -the human brain is a hierarchy of three brains in one; each has a different structure, function and chemistry. Though the human brain has evolved in size and...
