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Adolescent Brain Development: Understanding Tweens and Teens

Adolescence is hard and complicated for everyone, and even more so for adopted teens of color. Learn how to understand the many changes taking place in the brains, bodies, and emotions of your beloved, frustrating tweens and teens so you can help your adopted child navigate these changes and the intersections with their experiences of race, adoption, foster care, and/or trauma.

Target audience: Foster or adoptive parents of tweens and teens of color (ages 10-19).

Lead Speaker: Beth Hall
2022

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