Core Issues of Adoption Training
The core issues of adoption training details the core issues of adoption paradigm which acknowledges the impact of relinquishment and adoption losses on birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. The core issues are presented as a trauma perspective with loss, grief, guilt/shame, identity, intimacy, rejection, control, abandonment, loyalty, fitting-in, entitlement, and claiming as the trauma lens birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents view their world. The core issues of adoption workshop discusses how the core issues are normative responses to adoption triad members’ lived experience. The training discusses how a person’s environment can be supportive, reducing the severity of the core issues or how the environment can have a traumatic impact on adoption triad members. The training concludes with information on counseling adoption triad who struggle with the core issues.
Presentation and learning objectives are adjusted for presentations for professional development for mental health professionals, adoption conferences, and support groups.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will learn about Sharon Kaplan Roszia and Deborah Silverstein’s original description of the core issues of adoption.
- Participants will learn how society’s beliefs, adoption practices, and family members negatively impact adoption triad members.
- Participants will learn details of the 12 core issues of adoption – loss, grief, rejection, identity, guilt/shame, intimacy, control, abandonment, claiming, entitlement, loyalty, and fitting in.
- Participants will learn how the core issues of adoption impact the extended family of adoption triad members.
- Participants will learn ways to help adoption triad members on their healing journey with the core issues of adoption.
