Are you currently a foster or adoptive parent?  Did you think that parenting could be this hard?  Does your adopted or foster child have behaviors that scare you? 

It is not uncommon for parents with wonderful intentions to begin fostering or to adopt a child and later, when severe behaviors start to arise, start to wonder if it was the right thing to do or if there is something wrong with them as a parent.

How does trauma effect children?

Children who have experienced trauma in their lives due to abuse, neglect, medical problems, or any number of traumatic experiences, often interpret their world differently than children who had their needs met in a loving and consistent way during their first few years of life.  In fact, the field of neuroscience within child development led by Bruce Perry, M.D. and Daniel Siegel M.D. is now changing the world's understanding about infant development, mental health, and treatment for children with trauma histories. 

Each child in the foster care system has a trauma history (even if the only known trauma is the separation or loss of the biological mother or family).  Traumatic experiences, including neglect, can have a tremendous effect on the child's ability to trust others and thus establish and maintain close, healthy relationships.  The way the child's brain becomes wired often makes his nervous system hyper-sensitive to his surroundings and thus react out of fear-based survival (fight, flight, or freeze) when he interprets the environment as unsafe.

The Great Behavior Breakdown® Parenting Class

These parenting classes are specifically designed for parents of children who have experienced trauma.  They were developed by the Post Institute in order to help foster and adoptive parents learn how to help their children heal from their traumas and become healthy and happy kids.  These classes are not behavior modification classes.  They do not focus on consequences.  They focus primarily on the relationship of the child with the parent and how to shift from fear-based parenting to love-based parenting. 

Continuing Education Credits

This class offers 10 continuing education credits for foster parents who need these credits to be licensed as foster parents.

Class Schedule

The Great Behavior Breakdown® class dates and times have not yet been set.  If you are interested in attending this 4-week class send us an email at info@parentarizona.com letting us know of your interest and we will keep you notified as to the dates, times, and location of the next class.  You can also give us a call at 602-492-5055.

B. Bryan Post from the Post Institute

Parenting Resources and Products from the Post Institute

Bryan Post speaks to parents about the challenges they face when dealing with behaviors that are often present for adopted children. He helps parents understand the impact of early life trauma and the impact of interruptions in the attachment process. In his compassion for parents and children, he offers hope and solutions for the challenges families face. Many parents of adopted children express their fear not only for their child’s present behaviors, but for what will become of them in the future. Bryan’s straightforward, clear-cut approach has created peace and healing for hundreds of families; families who once operated in fear are now experiencing love.

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Lying, stealing, defiance, incessant chatter...presented here are 27 of the most serious, problematic and challenging behaviors that parents face and step-by-step guidance from one of America’s foremost child behavior experts on how to deal with them.

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