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Meet your instructors
Sara-Jane
Hardman and Jean Roe Mauro, LCSW
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Unit
1: Introduction: what will I learn in this course?
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- Brief outline
of this course and its teaching methods
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Unit
2: Prenatal life of a child |
- Stage one
of pregnancy - pregnancy is confirmed
- Stage two
of pregnancy - movement is felt
- Stage three
of pregnancy - bonding begins
- Test yorself
(Q & A)
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Unit
3: Birth to 12 months |
- Labor and
delivery
- Adoption and
the birth process
- Development:
birth to six weeks - (In Limbo)
- Development:
four weeks to five months (The Lap Baby)
- Beginning
separation - the invisible bond
- Six months
to twelve months - differentiation: checking in, crawling
and walking
- Test yourself
(Q & A)
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Unit
4: 12 to 24 months - the second birth |
- Normal milestones and a lack of mothering on the previous stages
- Maximizing attachment and healthy development
- Test yourself (Q & A)
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Unit
5:"The best age of all" or "The terrible
twos?" |
- Twenty four months
- Thirty six months
- Test yourself (Q & A)
- Course summary
- Signs of possible
problems
- Maximizing
attachment with your child
- The importance
of touch
- Guidelines
for parenting your internationally adopted child
- Looking ahead
- References
- Exit test
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