Target
Audience: resource caregivers
This training provides an overview of some of the common thoughts and feelings experienced by children and adolescents who have been adopted, such as believing that they were responsible for removal from their birth family, internalizing the message that they should be grateful or that they should feel lucky to have been adopted, feeling guilty regarding mixed loyalty issues, and experiencing a sense of loss. The training provides strategies that caregivers can use to support their children and to help them address and make sense of the thoughts and feelings they may be experiencing.