BioSocial Cognition Training for
Adoptive Parents
Accrescent Institute offers a wide variety of workshops and training customized for the unique needs and challenges impacting Adoptive Parents and Families.
Understand how past memories and environments impact a child’s development, behavior, and responses. Learn how to intentionally and consciously create new memories.
Gain an increased awareness of the impact of individuality, trauma, and maturity on teen behavior and decision making. Acquire the skills and tools to engage in positive and productive communication.
As parents we want our children to succeed, to thrive. But they are individuals different from us, and we can't control all that happens to them or how they react.
This session focuses on helping adoptive parents understand how memories impact the behaviors they are experiencing with their children, and how to use this knowledge to help them grow into their potential as adults.
What’s different about parenting a adoptive child?
In this interactive session, we'll delve into what factors uniquely impact adoptive parenting. We’ll also talk about what to listen for, what to look for, what information to gather, and who to gather it from.
Why do teens make the choices they do? What could they possibly be thinking? How can we guide them into adulthood with the tools they need to lead healthy, productive lives?
In this interactive session, we’ll explore the development, neuroscience, and internal and external factors that impact teen choices and behavior…
So that you can better understand where your teen is coming from, why they are making the choices they are making.
You’ll also gain a methodology for cultivating positive, productive communication and
relationship with your teens. And a tool for communicating and reaching agreements through the teen years and beyond.
Improving Communication & Relationship with Adoptive Teens
Adoptive parents face unique situations and challenges throughout day-to-day life with their teens.
Designed for attendees who are already familiar with the BioSocial Cognition model, this practical, more advanced workshop, delves further into how to overcome the difficult challenges we face with our youth.
Ultimately, using your understanding of how and why memories are affecting your teen’s behavior, you can better identify needs, understand where they are coming from, and improve your communication and relationship with your teens.
Recommend previously attending Raising a Child to Thrive
Open Adoption: A Parent's Journey
We want to see our children flourish and our family dynamic succeed. In this workshop, one adoptive dad shares how his children’s open adoptions revealed new insights on how memories, environment, and human development impact experiences, behavior and decisions, and how to use this knowledge to enhance open adoption dynamics.
