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    - Conspicuous Families
    - Let's Talk Adoption
    - The Journey of Attachment
    - Finding the Missing Pieces
    - Adopting the Older Child
    - Medical Issues
    - With Eyes Wide Open
    - Child’s Best Advocate
    - Lifebooks
    - Adoption Tax Credit
    - Foster Family to Forever Family
    - Maintaining Connections
    - China: Adoption Process
    - China: History
    - China: Culture
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Adoption Learning Partners

Adopting The Older Child

This course will help you determine whether adopting an older child, either internationally or through the domestic child welfare system, is right for you.

This course will help you:

  • Consider your expectations of older child adoption.
  • Understand the importance of your child's history.
  • Develop strategies for integrating an older child into the existing family unit.
  • Identify the challenges specific to older adopted children.
  • Understand when and where to seek assistance for yourself and your child.

Credit hours: 2.0

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