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the adopted and foster child’s ability to adapt

By: Tracy Dee Whitt October 1, 2015November 20, 2020

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Adaptation. It can take a long time for humans and animals to adapt to a new situation or new lifestyle. However, many adopted and foster children who come from traumatic backgrounds adapt very quickly to new surroundings. This is also true for some children who are adopted when they’re infants. Even after healing took place…

can a hurting child make choices? (adoption & foster care)

By: Tracy Dee Whitt September 18, 2014September 18, 2014

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Decisions, decisions, decisions. When a child comes from a traumatic past, they consistently need decisions made for them. Even months and years after their adoption or placement in foster care, a hurting child will need others to help guide them more than a typical child would. But sometimes too much control is taken away from…

attachment in adoption & foster care: the first things we need to know

By: Tracy Dee Whitt August 7, 2014April 20, 2015

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This is a post I originally wrote in April 2013. Many of you are new here, so I thought I would bring back some of the basics in the following weeks. Hope you enjoy. ************* In Chris Cleave’s novel Little Bee, he writes Little Bee’s thoughts, “Take it from me, a scar does not form on…

trauma focused equine therapy (adoption/foster)

By: Tracy Dee Whitt June 25, 2013April 27, 2014

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I found this information in an email from The Child Trauma Academy on Spirit Reins Equine Therapy: “Participants learned that the brains of “prey” animals, such as horses, are organized much like that of a traumatized and hypervigilant children who are constantly scanning the environment for threat. The horse, for one, senses a child’s hypervigilance instinctively…