Out of home placement and adoption is sometimes seen as a solution to child maltreatment but becomes its own impactful and potentially adverse life event. Child EMDR therapists are on the front lines of attempts to bring about healing for children in…
This article describes the positive effects of a trauma-based approach with an adopted adolescent girl, diagnosed with Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD). Although symptoms seemed at first sight traumaunrelated, exploration of her pre- and post-adoption…
This case series study investigated the effectiveness of an integrative eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and family therapy model, specifically the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children (IATP-C), for improving…
Attachment theory describes how early childhood attachment relationships between child and caregiver determine the formation of mental patterns, known as Internal Working Models (IWM). Attachment internal working models give rise to a system of…
Plusieurs thérapeutes pratiquant le EMDR ont à travailler auprès des enfants adoptés et leurs familles. Si les symptômes de SPT simples ou complexes qui nuisent au développement et à l’attachement font rapidement partie du portrait clinique pour un…
Treating older-adopted children entails consideration of multiple issues, including the parents’ adoption-related loss history, the child’s trauma, loss and attachment history, and the adoptive family’s dynamics. Therapist interventions target…
Esse trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar um caso clínico, de uma paciente de 46 anos, no período de adaptação da adoção de uma criança de cinco anos. As dificuldades apresentadas inicialmente eram relacionadas: à vinculação afetiva materna, ao…
La adopción es un tema actual, cuyo interés crece progresivamente. Su vigencia social resulta incuestionable si atendemos al incremento exponencial de niños adoptados por familias españolas, especialmente en adopciones internacionales. La Ley de…
EMDR is based on the adaptive information system model. Humans have an inherent information processing system that generally processes the complex elements of an experience to an adaptive state. In other words, we have the innate capacity to resolve…
Many children who are adopted due to difficult early circumstances exhibit severe and challenging behaviors due to a history of attachment trauma and loss. This presentation will describe an EMDR Integrative Team Treatment of attachment trauma in…
This paper reviews the issues of major importance in the current study of bonding and attachment. Adopted children and children who have spent some of their childhood in foster care account for a disproportionate number of unattached children. A…
From the model of Narrative family therapy we use tales that could symbolically represent in therapy settings a person or a legal entity, both individual and collective, and which expresses a personal identification, a family tie, a community link or…
El objetivo e nuestro articulo es plantear un protocolo de abordaje psicológico ante las dificultades que afectan a las familias con problemas de adaptación en casos de adopción. Partiendo de la perspectiva conceptual de la teoría del apego,…
Narrative family therapy is the study of individuals, systems and the research on origins, development and transmission of values, as well as their meaning, and influence on social dynamics. Using tales we could symbolically represent an entity, both…
Numerous methods have attempted to repair distress remaining from very early trauma (especially adoption) or neglect, but most have been difficult, cumbersome, even traumatic. The presenter will describe and demonstrate a direct, simple, safe and…
Many children and adolescents who present for serious behavior problems have been adopted both from here and from other counties. Parents and teachers are not prepared to deal with the attachment disorders that are part of the child. This workshop…
