Connecting Your Family, Inside And Out

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Certification Duration: Forever

Course completion window: 30 days

Course Description

Secure parent-child attachments are essential to healthy child development, but often adoption can present challenges to the process.

World renowned attachment expert Dr. Dan Hughes shares family centered strategies on how to connect with your child as a toddler, tween and teen. Dr. Hughes is joined by Lynn Wetterberg. Lynn discusses finding attachment related resources and adoption competent professional support.

Advice on connecting with your child throughout their development
Expert insights into attachment and attunement
Information on finding professional support and resources

Credit Hours: 1.0

Free Resources

Positive Adoption Language

By using – and teaching others about – positive adoptive language, adoptive families help tear down adoption misconceptions. This article helps families understand which phrases and words are the most positive and why.