Introduction to International Adoption
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
10/19/22
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Have you ever thought about adopting a child from abroad? What does it take and what type of kids are available? To learn more, listen to our interview with Robin Sizemore, Executive Director of Hopscotch Adoptions, who has worked in the international adoption field for 27 years and Debbie Price, Executive Director of Children’s House International and who has worked in international adoption for 28 years.
In this episode, we cover:
- Outline of the typical international adoption process.
- What type of kids are available for international adoption?
- What is the youngest child available?
- Is it possible to get a young healthy child or baby?
- International adoption regulations.
- What governmental entities are involved in international adoption?
- How to decide on what country to adopt from? Will the country accept you? Does the country place children that you think your family is a good fit for?
- What are some of the country-specific requirements for adoptive parents?
- Can adoption agencies have different or more stringent requirements than the foreign or US government?
- What are the health risks for children adopted internationally? What type of special needs do children have?
- What type of care do children have before adoption? Institutional vs foster care.
- How to find children abroad who are waiting for adoption? How to adopt a child on a waiting child website?
- How much information will you have on the health of the child when you receive a referral?
- How big of a risk is it that a country will close down to international adoption once you apply? How do you mitigate the risk of losing the money you invested?
- What to look for in an international adoption agency?
- Pre-adoption education requirements.
- How much does international adoption cost?
- Are grants available?
- What is the Adoption Tax Credit and can it be used for an international adoption?
- How long does it take to adopt internationally?
- Is it possible for single women, gays, lesbians, or other members of the LGBTQ+ community to adopt internationally?
- Importance of post-adoption reporting.
- How do internationally adopted children acquire US citizenship?
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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Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Parents
October 12, 2022
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Are you getting ready to adopt or have just adopted? Do you wonder what the experience will really be like and what you can do to prepare? Join our conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bliss, LCSW and Director of Adoptions and Foster Care at Vista Del Mar and Family Services in Los Angeles; and Molly Berger, MSW and Adoption Social Worker at Adoption Center of Illinois.In this episode, we cover:
Domestic Infant Adoption:
- Process
- Typical stresses adoptive parents feel
- Lack of sleep
- Not deserving to complain
- Feeling like a babysitter
- Not feeling love at first site
- Impact of infertility struggles on transitioning into parenthood
- Stresses with parenting a child with neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Stresses with open adoption
Older child adoption through foster care or international adoption:
- Process
- Typical stresses adoptive parents feel
- Unrealistic expectations of the child and of yourself
- Love at first site
- Feeling like a babysitter
- Language issues
- Cultural issues
- Parental attachment styles-How the way we were parented influences how we parent.
- Challenging behaviors
- Sibling issues
Change is stressful and adding a child to your family is a huge change regardless of how the child joins the family. What can newly adoptive parents do to prepare in advance and to cope in those first few months?
How has the idea of cocooning impacted stress?
- Doc McStuffins, "Baby McStuffins" (Season 3)
- Sesame Street, "Gina Adopts a Baby"
- Suggested Book List on Preparing Children for Adoption of a Sibling
- Suggested Book List on Explaining Adoption To Birth Siblings of Adopted Children
- Creating a Family resources on Disrupting Birth Order
- Creating a Family courses on Combining Kids by Birth and Adoption
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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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Collaborative Parenting
October 26, 2022
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Is your child more challenging than most? Do typical parenting approaches not work? We talk about how to parent harder-to- parent kids with Dr. Ross Greene, the originator of the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions parenting model, a non-punitive, non-adversarial, trauma-informed model of care. Dr. Greene is a clinical psychologist, former Harvard professor, and the author The Explosive Child and Raising Human Beings.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why are some kids “harder to parent”?
- How does trauma impact a child’s behavior?
- How does innate temperament or genetics impact behavior?
- What is the collaborative partnership approach?
- 3 Steps to the Collaborative & Proactive approach are:
- The Empathy step – involves gathering information so as to achieve the clearest understanding of the kid’s concern or perspective about a given unsolved problem.
- The Define Adult Concern step involves the adult sharing their perspective.
- The Invitation step involves having the adult and kid brainstorm solutions so as to arrive at a plan of action that is both realistic and mutually satisfactory...in other words, a solution that addresses both concerns and that both parties can actually do.
- “Kids do well if they can.” Kids are challenging because they’re lacking the skills not to be challenging. If they had the skills, they wouldn’t be challenging. That’s because – and here is perhaps the key theme of the model — Kids do well if they can. And because (here’s another key theme) Doing well is always preferable to not doing well (but only if a kid has the skills to do well in the first place).
- How would you apply this approach to work with kids who have experienced trauma?
- Is Collaborative partnership permissive parenting?
- Practical applications:
- A child who struggles with transitions.
- A child who won’t accept “no” and tantrums or argues.
- A child who doesn’t handle change and can’t be flexible.
- Tattling
- A teen who disregards curfew or other house rules.
- How to deal with aggressive behaviors towards pets, siblings, or parents?
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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