Why is it so Important to Help Your Foster and Adopted Children Feel Safe?

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Why is it so Important to Help Your Foster and Adopted Children Feel Safe?

Children in custody come into care with a repertoire of maladaptive behaviors. Often they behave in a manner that was adaptive in their birth family but is maladaptive in your family. It looks like bad behavior. If you misinterpret this as the bad behavior it appears to be at 1st blush, and respond with punishment the cost will be damage to the goal of developing a healthy attachment: the child’s greatest need.

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This Session's Learning Objectives

The Arousal Relaxation cycle. Children in custody are often deficient in revolutions of the arousal relaxation cycle.
Behavior is the language of children who have lost their voice to trauma.
Toxic stress - Children in care are often in a constant state of toxic stress. They have been afraid most of their lives and don’t understand that they are in fear. They think all people live In that state. Fear is not conducive to attachment.

When the process taught in this session is consistently developed by loving and attuned caregivers in early life it forms the basis for attachment and self efficacy (when I cry they come and see to my needs) self esteem ( when I cry the most important people in the world (to me) come and see to my needs) self regulation (when I go from need to high arousal to high arousal squared they come and pick me up and calm me down (providing external regulations which is the 1st required prerequisite for self-regulation and the blueprint for future relationships.

Meet Ann Bagley, LSW, Adoption Assessor Certified T.B.R.I. Educator and Adoptive parent

Ann Bagley is a certified trainer with the Institute of Human Services. She has numerous years of experience in child welfare and retired from Geauga County DJFS where she worked for many years as an adoption supervisor. Ann is also an adoptive parent.

She has taken some intensive training in Trust Based Relational Intervention in Texas with Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross which she states has changed the way she does training. She has also had training on the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Toolkit.

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