How Do Teachers Understand Adoption (and What Can Parents Do About It?)
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
07/20/22
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What do teachers know about adoption? What are the misperceptions? We talk with two researchers on this topic: Dr. Hal Grotevant, the Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Dr. Abbie Goldberg, a Professor of Psychology and current Director of Women’s & Gender Studies at Clark University.
In this episode, we cover:
- How knowledgeable were teachers in understanding the impact of trauma?
- How knowledgeable were teachers in understanding the impact of attachment?
- How knowledgeable were teachers in understanding the impact of adoption?
- How knowledgeable were teacher sin understanding the impact of prenatal exposure?
- Was there a perception that adopted kids were “troubled”?
- What did they know about open adoption?
- How accepting were teachers to the idea of modifying assignments to reflect diverse families, including those formed by adoption?
- Do teachers know whether kids are adopted? Do they need to know? Do they feel comfortable asking this information?
- Did teachers present lessons that included the diversity that adoption represents?
- Does teacher training, either formal or in-service training, often include information on adoption?
- What can parents do to help their child’s teacher be more adoption-aware or adoption-sensitive?
- Where can listeners get more information on your research?
- The “Teachers and Adopted Children” Survey and the Factsheet for Teacher can be found here.
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Back to School with Foster & Adopted Kids
July 13, 2022
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How can you help you child succeed at school? We talk with Heather Forbes, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute. She specializes on the impact of trauma and is the author of Help for Billy and Classroom 180.
In this episode, we cover:
- What are some of the specific issues that parents of foster and adopted kids need to consider when their children go back to school?
- Tips for helping kids transition into the new year.
- Is it better to address potentially sensitive issues up front before they happen, when they might not even happen, or wait to see if it comes up? For example, family tree assignments.
- What are some other potentially triggering school assignments for foster or adopted kids?
- How much of your child’s story should you share with your child’s teacher? How to balance the desire to keep your child’s history for them to decide who knows and sharing sensitive information with the teacher to help them work with your child.
- How to address the issue of your child’s past trauma and how it affects the way they behave?
- Why is it important to have a trauma-informed school?
- What can parents do to help their school and their child’s teacher become more trauma informed?
- A disproportionate number of adopted and foster kids have been prenatally exposed to alcohol and drugs. How does this exposure impact their education and time at school?
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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We talk with a panel of former foster youth about their stories and what helped them survive their trauma and succeed in life.
In this episode, we cover:
- What were the two most important things in helping you heal and ultimately thrive after your years in foster care and early life trauma?
- Was their one or two people in your life who helped you overcome? What did they do to help?
- Why do you think you became a survivor when others in similar positions did not?
- If you are parents, how has your trauma from your early years impacted your parenting?
- While you are successful and are “survivors” do you still carry some of the baggage from your childhood?
- What advice would you give foster, adoptive, and kinship parents to be most helpful to the children in their care?
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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