The Connected Parent
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
12/29/21
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The next step in understanding attachment and Trust-Based Relational Intervention is the new book, The Connected Parent, by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Lisa Qualls, with great assistance from Emmelie Pickett. On this episode, we interview Lisa and Emmelie about connected parenting.
In this episode, we cover:
- Understanding the foundations of attachment.
- What do parents bring to the situation that influences how their children attach.
- Using “scripts” to help you implement Trust-Based Relational Intervention.
- Coping with chronic fear in our kids.
- Coping with parental fear that things will never improve or that our children will never be able to heal.
- How to discipline the TBRI® way.
- How to teach respect.
- Understanding how sensory issues can be confused with attachment issues.
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
Previous Episode
How Does Adoption Affect the Siblings Already in a Family?
December 22, 2021
•49m
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Does adoption positively or negatively affect children already in the family and what can parents do to lessen the negative impacts. We discuss this topic with Dr. Jana Hunsley, an experimental psychologist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and TBRI® Practitioner, specializing in understanding and meeting the needs of siblings is foster and adoptive families.
In this episode, we cover:
- Much of the focus of adoption literature and research is on the adopted child and the adoptive parents with little attention on the children already in the family.
- Tell us your story as the sibling of 7 adopted siblings.
- Research on adopted siblings.
- What are some of the challenges that siblings of the adopted child might face?
- Feeling invisible
- Coping with overwhelmed distracted parents
- Parentification
- Becoming another parent to your siblings
- Becoming the emotional support for their parents
- Trying to keep the peace in the home by acting as a peacemaker
- Feeling the need to be extra good or accomplished to add less stress to their parents. Or suppressing their own needs so as to not add to their parent’s burden. Try to not have any needs.
- Feeling embarrassed by your sibling’s behavior
- Blaming parent who isn’t able to “control” the new child or make them behave better or meet their needs.
- Mourning the loss of your calm “normal” family
- Secondary trauma
- Unwanted public attention on your family because of size, behavior, transracial adoption
- Jealous of the adopted child because they perceive them as getting all the attention
- Resentful of the adopted child because of the added burden they brought to the family
- What factors influence the degree of these challenges to siblings in an adoptive family? (age of the children in the family and the children being adopted, degree of trauma, type of behavioral issues, etc.)
- Disrupting birth order.
- What can adoptive parents and professionals do to mitigate some of these challenges of siblings of adopted children?
- How can parents prepare kids already in the family for the adoption of a sibling?
- Tips for parents in reducing the negative impact of adoption on the children already in the family.
- What are some of the benefits of adoption to siblings in the family?
- Have you talked with your 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
Next Episode
What Are Your Chances of Getting Pregnant With Unexplained Infertility
January 5, 2022
•46m
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If you have unexplained infertility, what are your chances of ultimately having a baby—either through infertility treatment or natural conception? We talk with Dr. Denis Vaughan, a board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at Boston IVF and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He was the principal investigator on the study "Long-term reproductive outcomes in patients with unexplained infertility".
In this episode, we cover:
- What year was the original FASTT trial and what were the findings?
- What is unexplained infertility and how common is it?
- Did most of the women try to conceive after the original FASTT trial?
- How did the women who agree to participate in this follow-up study compare to the original FASTT participants? Was there a difference between those who participated in the follow-up and those who did not?
- What percentage of the women were successful at conception with IUI? IVF? Natural conception?
- What percentage tried to conceive with donor egg?
- What percentage adopted?
- If the woman had conceived via fertility treatment in the original FASTT trial is she more likely to conceive successfully in the future?
- Some speculate that a significant proportion of unexplained infertility is due to un-diagnosed endometriosis. Did this follow-up study shed light on that question?
- Did many of the women after the original FASTT study receive a more definitive diagnosis of why they were not able to conceive?
- What did the study show about patient satisfaction with their family building process and ultimate family size?
- What did we learn about conception with unexplained infertility as a result of the follow-up to the FASTT study?
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire infertility patients 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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