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ADOPTIVE PARENTS EDUCATION/SUPPORT GROUP
This group is for parents with an adopted child who is presenting emotional and behavioral challenges and for whom attachment to his/her adoptive family may have been compromised by his or her earliest caregiving experiences.
This group will offer support and practical parenting skills to help adoptive children. Parents will learn:
- How to understand your child’s challenges from Attachment Theory and Brain Development
- How to create the elements of a secure base environment
- Understanding Attunement and Empathy
- Providing structure, limits and consequences to create safety
- How to cope with Aggression and Defiance
- How to cope with your child’s rejection of you
- How to have fun and pleasure when your child undermines this
- How to manage extreme behavior: e.g. sexual, stealing, fire setting
- How to manage family, friends, and the Community
- How to find the appropriate school and work with school personnel
- How to deal with feelings of sadness and despair as a parent
- To understand your own unresolved issues and the importance of taking care of yourself
This group will be facilitated by two Child and Family Therapists, Annette Kussin and Marguerite McCarron, both experienced in therapy with adopted children and their families.
- The group will meet every Tuesday from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the Leaside Therapy Centre, 1395 Bayview Avenue.
- Each 10-week cycle is a closed group.
- Cost per participant is $50.00 per 2-hour session. Payment of one-half of the $500.00 for the 10-week group will be required to ensure a spot in the group.
- Each parent of a two-parent family must pay the $500.00 fee.
- There is a limit of 10 members per group.
Interested adoptive parents can contact Annette Kussin, Director of The Leaside Therapy Centre at (416) 440-2551 or complete an application form by visiting www.leasidetherapycentre.com.
Next Group Session: April 6 – June 8, 2010
About the Leaders:
Annette Kussin M.S.W., RSW
Marguerite McCarron CYW, B.A., Dipl. TCPP
Annette Kussin is a Registered Social Worker and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. She is presently the owner and director of the Leaside Therapy Centre, a multi-disciplinary clinic. She has an independent private practice at the Centre.
Annette has over thirty-five years experience in children and adult mental health in clinical, supervisory and management positions. For over 30 years Annette has specialized in couple and family therapy offering training, supervision and consultation. Over the past 20 years she has developed an interest and expertise in Attachment Theory, Trauma and Brain Development and offers training in these areas throughout Ontario. She provides consultation and training to Children’s Mental Health Agencies, Child Welfare Agencies and professionals in the community.
In her present private practice Annette offers counselling services to the community, including individual, marital and family therapy. She specializes in issues related to trauma and attachment in children and adults. She offers attachment assessments, parenting capacity assessments and trauma assessments to Child Welfare Services and other children’s services. Annette presently specializes in the treatment of Adoptive Children with Attachment problems.
She and Marquerite McCarron are part of an ongoing advanced supervision group working with Daniel Hughes.
Marguerite McCarron is a trained Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with over 20 years work experience in Child Welfare and Children's Mental Health. Marguerite has worked extensively with children and youth who present with attachment and trauma issues and the related behavioural challenges. Work with caregivers has included biological, foster and adoptive parents. Guided parent and child interaction work is a particular area of interest and expertise.
Click the links below for an application form
ADOPTION SUPPORT GROUP : INTAKE FORM
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ADOPTION SUPPORT GROUP : INTAKE FORM
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ADOPTION SUPPORT GROUP : INTAKE FORM
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Please Fax completed forms to
Annette Kussin, Leaside Therapy Centre, 416-440-4019
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