Adoption Related Issues

Families with adopted children face different challenges than those with just biological children. Even adopted children who feel positive about their adoption experience, can face a variety of emotions as they become teenagers. Typical rites of passage may have additional facets for adopted adolescents. They may question their identity and value, suffer from low self-esteem, and experience grief and loss. While some adopted teens are able to work through their feelings on their own or with their friends and family, others need professional help to deal with the range of emotions that arise.

Adoptive parenting can be more complex than parenting biological children can. Adoptive parents face unique challenges raising adopted children. While it is important for traditional parents to keep the lines of communication open with their children, it is even more crucial for adoptive parents, especially as adopted children become teenagers. Adopted teens will have additional issues to face as they mature into adults.

Journey’s Quest a co-educational residential treatment and educational school for teens, provides a comprehensive academic and therapeutic curriculum designed for teens with behavioral, emotional, motivational problems or special learning needs. Demand for a specific program designed to address the challenges of adoptive children, their clinical symptoms and families are the driving force behind Journey’s Quest therapeutic and academic program.

Addressing the specific needs of adoptive children, allows Journey’s Quest multidisciplinary team to design and provide adoption-focused group therapy, thematic workshops for processing stages of grief, and access to one-on-one attention and therapy.

Most adoptive children wonder why they were placed for adoption and can struggle with feelings of self-worth, sense of personal value, or are they good-enough, especially during the teenage years when it’s natural for them to assert themselves as unique individuals. Journey’s Quest can help them work through their feelings of loss, self-worth, loss, and anger. For more information regarding the programs at Journey’s Quest check out our complete center.

Posted on January 31st, 2012 by admin
Filed under: Adoption