Course BG7
School Issues of an Internationally Adopted Child: Behavior
Instructor Dr. Boris Gindis
Unit
1: Major causes of behavior problems
of international adoptees.
- Do international adoptees have more behavioral
problems than their peers?
- Major causes of behavior problems of international
adoptees.
Unit 2: Initial adjustment
of internationally adopted children ages 4 and up.
- Culture and language as mediators of initial adjustment
period
- Adjustment period phases
- How to manage behavioral issues during an initial
adjustment period
Unit
3: Post-orphanage behavior syndrome: symptoms and remedies.
- Culture and language as mediators of Post-Orphanage
Behavior
- Immature self-regulation of behavior and emotions
- Self-parenting
- Controlling and avoiding behavior
- Learned helplessness (hidden skills) syndrome
- "Two-&-twenty" condition
- Extreme attention seeking and indiscriminate friendliness
with strangers
- How to manage Post-Orphanage Behavior in your child
Unit 4: The
causes of behavioral and emotional difficulties of international
adoptees.
- Developmental disabilities and institutional autism
- ADHD in school age internationally adopted children
- or is it?
- Addendum "ADHD in Post-Institutionalized Children:
Questions From Parents And Answers/Commentary From Dr. Gindis"
- Attachment disorder in school age internationally
adopted children - "catch-all" term
- Addendum "Attachment Disorder in School Age
Internationally Adopted Children"
- FAS-based behavior issues in school age internationally
adopted children
- Addendum "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Questions
and Answers"
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in school age internationally
adopted children
- Addendum "PTSD in Post-Institutionalized Children"
Unit 5: Action
plan of how to be proactive and effective with behavioral and emotional
issues of international adoptees.
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