Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

This is another in a series of posts on related challenging topics. If you are just joining us, there is also an Introduction, Part One and Part Two, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six. There will be five more posts in this series. The schedule is included at the end of this post. You may [...]

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 [...]