Resources
Pre-Adoption Preparation
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a part of the family.
This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments.
In On It “the adoption book for everyone else” — the grandparents and friends, neighbors and colleagues, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of adoptive families.
The go-to book for adoption professionals when preparing families for adoption. It provides detailed insight into the needs of children from hard places, giving parents tools to connect with and empower them.
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Help With Parenting Struggles
Blocked Care
Blocked care is when a parent experiences extreme or constant levels of stress, becoming overwhelmed with caring for their child. To self protect, the parent may shut down and struggle to feel love, compassion, or attached to their child. Contributing factors include:
1. Challenging, extreme behaviors by their child
2. Significant life stressors such as divorce, illness, crises
3. Unrealistic or unmet expectations about the child or parenting
4. Unresolved grief or trauma
Sound familiar? Click here or on the book below.
Executive Functioning
Children with developmental trauma often times struggle with impaired executive functioning skills, ADHD and other learning disabilities.
This impairs their ability to
1. Plan
2. Organize
3. Shift gears
4. Handle transitions
5. Control impulses
and includes working memory challenges.
Creating a Family offers a free class by the author of the book below. 