This comprehensive course is developed for parents considering adoption of older children internationally. It covers a lot of information from a pre-adoption decision making to post-adoption difficulties of adjustment period and beyond.
The course material gives you an insight into what it may be like to bring up a traumatized child with an institutional background, gives you real life examples of how the child's behavioral, emotional and educational problems can be approached, and where to go if you need help or information.
It's likely that you will not encounter all of the discussed subjects right from the start of your adoption, but you will want to return to them later.
This program qualifies for 20 contact hours
Your instructors:
Boris Gindis, Ph.D. - Chief Psychologist at the Center for Cognitive-Developmental Assessment and Remediation
Jody Sciortino - Director of Social Work at the Kidsave International