Learn how adopted tweens are developing new analytical abilities, and beginning to explore new ideas, identities, and world views. They are getting messages from media and peers that they should begin to separate from their family, but most of them are not emotionally ready to do so. Understanding what is happening, and why, really does help!
Target audience: Adoptive parents, first/birth parents.
Lead Speaker: Beth Hall
2019
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...
To tap into the full potential of adopted and fostered children of color, educators must not only confront their racial biases, they must become adoption-literate and trauma-informed. Academic ability and learning differences are often misinterpreted by both parents...
by Sloan Nova, Psy.D. 2024 “I don’t think the trauma ever goes away fully. I think you either are lucky and you learn how to deal with it, or it takes you out.” The quotes in this article are from interviews with adoptees about their lived experiences of being placed...