Creating a Family Adoption & Foster Care Education

In this course, we interview Jennifer McCallum, Lead Post Adoption Counselor at Buckner Children & Family Services, and Dr. Lark Eshleman, a consultant and educator whose expertise is working with children and families who have experienced early emotional trauma, attachment difficulties, neglect and abuse.

This course covers the following topics:

• Domestic Infant Adoption
• Typical stresses adoptive parents feel
• Feeling like a babysitter
• Lack of sleep
• How has the idea of cocooning impacted stress?
• Impact of infertility struggles on transitioning into parenthood.
• Stresses with parenting a child with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
• Stresses with open adoption
• Older child adoption through foster care or international adoption
• Unrealistic expectations of the child and of yourself
• School issues
• Parental attachment styles
• How the way we were parented influences how we parent.
• Challenging behaviors
• Sibling issues

*Your course will remain active for 180 days from purchase date.