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#73 for Internationally Adopting Parents
October 11, 2007
PAL Center
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Group Therapy at BGCenter
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Participants: Children (7-12 years old) with difficulties in:
The group therapy cycle is 10 sessions: 8 weekly sessions with the children and 2 monthly sessions with the parents. Maintenance and "booster" meetings are available on monthly basis thereafter. Group therapy sessions are ongoing. Space is limited to 4-5 children per group. Screening process is conducted to ensure the members of each group have compatible profiles of strengths and weakness. The sessions include role-playing, applied interpersonal problem solving, training in reading non-verbal behaviors, learning self-management/ self-regulation techniques along with appropriate social and interpersonal negotiation techniques (aggressive communication vs. assertive communication). The main goal of the group therapy is to provide children with compensatory and coping strategies that make undesirable behaviors unnecessary and ineffective in meeting their needs. Each child will receive individualized intervention and feedback, and the parents will be provided with feedback and "take home" tools and ideas. Where: Saturday 1:30-2:20 Cost: $1120
per cycle (10 sessions)
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Ellie Dixon
Growing Kids of Character
It's tough in modern society to develop strong moral values in your children. But there is a growing movement teaching them traditional standards. It's called "Character Education"
Give Your Enuretic Child the Gift of Confidence
Imagine you wake up soaking wet - again. You're already a 'big kid' because every day, for as long as you can remember, you wake up feeling like a baby. Maybe your siblings tease you. Even if they don't, it just doesn't feel fair that even your little brother or sister has stayed dry at night for years. How do you think your bedwetting child feels?What do they tell themselves about this problem? What can you do to help?
Spark an Interest in Gardening for Kids with Fun Gardening Gifts
Kids today often don't realize how fun and rewarding gardening can be. But with a few fun gardening gifts, you can spark an interest in gardening for your own children, your grandchildren, or students. Children love to try something new. Every time they receive a gardening gift such as a new planter, a garden decoration, or even their own patio furniture, they can "try it out" in a garden they designed all on their own.
International Adoptions &
Alcohol-Exposed Kids
International adoptions bring more alcohol-exposed kids to U.S.
In the U.S. and countries around the world, children are born each day to mothers who drank alcohol while they were pregnant. Many of these children are taken away from their biological mothers and later are adopted by families who will care for them. International adoptions are increasingly popular and as more American families adopt children from other countries, doctors say they are seeing more cases of fetal alcohol syndrome.
FAS in Internationally Adopted Children
An Alcohol-Related Neuro-developmental Disorder (ARND) - is a well-known and well-researched affliction. The extreme degree of this disorder is commonly known as FAS - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. The specificity of FAS in post-institutional children adopted internationally from Eastern Europe (mostly from the republics of former Soviet Union), is much less researched and less known and is the subject of this article. It is based on my own clinical experience working with international adoptees (IA) since 1992 at the BGCenter (Nanuet, NY). In the database of our center there are over 80 clinical cases of adopted children diagnosed with a different degree of ARND, who went through a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment between 2000 and 2007. Over 20% of these children were repeatedly evaluated over the years to monitor the dynamic of their development; they constitute the so-called longitudinal cases. My observations and commentary are based on these data.
Tips and info on adoption and fingerprints
Adoptive parents are fingerprinted during the adoption process to do a background check and ensure that the parents are "suitable" to adopt. Take care of your hands when it is getting close to your fingerprint time. Any cuts or other marks on your fingers that interfere with your prints can cause for you to have to have them redone at a later time, which will delay your adoption process.
That "Four Things" Thing
Four things I thought about adoption when I was a child.
Four things I've learned since then.
Four silly things people have said to me about adoption.
Four ways my adopted children have surprised me.
Four things I wish everyone knew about adoption.
Adoption Agencies Need to Shape Up or Ship Out
Here are some characteristics of lousy, irresponsible, unreliable, mismanaged and substandard agencies
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