Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

Welcome to Part Two of our post about helping healthy kids stay healthy. As we learned in Part One, brothers and sisters can become overwhelmed—just like parents—after an adoptee with complex trauma joins the family. The sibling they expected may not be the sibling that arrived. Disillusioned and let down by the new child who [...]

Post-adoption, each member of the newly formed adoptive family will begin to adjust and cope with the changes in the family. Frequently, in families that include a child with a history of trauma, the trauma renders coping skills ineffective—there is a depletion of coping skills. Subsequently, parents arrive in therapy stating, “Nothing works!” “We’ve tried [...]

This post is designed to dovetail off Tuesday’s blog in which it was suggested that while families wait for  their child to arrive, they can educate themselves and the children already in the family about the types of challenges the new son, daughter, brother or sister may present. If you have already adopted your child, [...]