Adoptive Families and Adults
Adoptive families and adults have special needs. It is important to seek counseling from a professional that is familiar and competent in dealing with these unique issues.
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Adoptive families and adults have special needs. It is important to seek counseling from a professional that is familiar and competent in dealing with these unique issues.
Seven core issues have been identified as significant for adoptees (as well as birth parents and adoptive parents.) While we all deal with these life issues to some degree or another, adoptees have specific concerns that relate to their life situations. As adults, they may feel they have cognitively processed and have worked through some of these issues, yet they may still be triggered in these areas by situations, developmental milestones and life changes.
What is “Trauma?” A car accident? Surviving a house fire or hurricane? How about the loss of your birth mother?Consider that “Trauma” may not be a catastrophic event as we sometimes imagine, but it is interpreted individually, and may not be a one time occurrence but cumulative over time. Trauma overwhelms our resources to cope. How well developed are the resources of a child? An infant?
The term attachment is used to describe the deep emotional bond between the child and the caregiver. This attachment relationship evolves over the first two years of life and beyond. The quality and style of attachment has profound effects on how we view ourselves and the world around us and is the bedrock upon which all other relationships are formed for the rest of our lives.