Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

In our previous blog, This is Not the Brother or Sister I Expected, we pointed out that how professionals and parents handle the dissemination of information—to their typical sons and daughters— about a sibling’s special needs will greatly influence the adjustment of the children already in the family (Meyer & Vadasy, 1994). This, in turn, [...]

Welcome to Part 2 of our post about nurture as a powerful way to heal the child who has experienced trauma. In Part 1, we looked at secure and insecure styles of attachment. We learned about some of the behaviors resultant when a child develops an insecure—avoidant, ambivalent or disorganized—style of attachment. Additional signs and symptoms of [...]

Last week, we looked at a number of the reasons that cause children with a history of abuse, neglect, institutionalization and abandonment to steal. If you missed these posts, you can follow these links, “Anything We Can’t Find, He Stole – Part 1 and Part 2.
We also discussed that these children don’t simply “grow out” [...]