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Parenting Adopted Children with Challenging Behavior

Sometime adopted children will have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, all of which can influence how a child behaves. Adoptive parents are faced with understanding what causes their child to behave the way she does and what they can do to help her cope.

Creating a Family has many resources on parenting adopted children with challenging behavior. A few we think you will find particularly helpful are:

Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids (1 hr audio interview with two adoption social workers/therapist)
Parenting Techniques to Prevent Adoption Failures (1 hr radio interview with adoption experts)
Should You Adopt a Child That Has Been Sexually Abused (blog post)
The Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing (1 hr radio interview with author Carol Stock Kranowitz)
Suggested Books on Parenting & Child Development and ADD & Learning Differences for Adoptive Parents

Many more Creating a Family radio interviews with experts, videos, blogs, fact sheets, and Q and A’s with Experts on parenting challenging kids can be found at the icons below.

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Additional Resources

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Creating a Family Radio Shows on Challenging Behavior

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Creating a Family Blogs on Challenging Behavior

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Creating a Family Factsheets, Tips on Challenging Behavior

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Creating a Family Videos on Challenging Behavior

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Q and A's with Experts on Challenging Behavior

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