Rehabilitation and Remediation of Internationally Adopted Children

This book presents an integrated, practical system for the rehabilitation and remediation of post-institutionalized international adoptees.

Boris Gindis (Author)

9781316516294, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 October 2021

200 pages, 1 table
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

'This detailed, practical, and logically presented book will become an invaluable resource for both professionals and parents, mostly in North America and Western Europe, who adopted children from abroad, particularly from the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.' Dr Boris Skurkovich, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA

This book presents specific methods for the physical rehabilitation, mental health restoration, and academic remediation of post-institutionalized international adoptees. The focus of the book is on the neurological, psychological, and educational consequences of complex childhood trauma in the context of a fundamental change in the social situation of development of former orphanage residents. A discussion of after-adoption traumatic experiences includes a critique of certain “conventional” approaches to the treatment of mental health issues and different disabilities in international adoptees. Using his 30-year background in research and clinical practice, the author expertly describes and analyses a range of methodologies in order to provide an integrated and practical system of “scaffolding” and “compensation” for the successful rehabilitation and remediation of children with ongoing traumatic experiences. This is essential reading for researchers and practicing clinicians concerned with childhood trauma, remedial education, and issues of international adoption.

1. Internationally adopted children: Development mediated by early childhood trauma
2. Developmental, neuro-psychological, psycho-educational and dynamic assessments of internationally adopted children
3. Differential diagnoses and the structure of school-based recommendations for internationally adopted children
4. Developmental trauma disorder rehabilitation in internationally adopted children
5. Cognitive remediation of internationally adopted children in school and family
6. Language remediation in internationally adopted children
7. Academic remediation of internationally adopted children
8. Creation of social and cultural competence in internationally adopted children
9. Therapeutic parenting as a major force in rehabilitation and remediation of internationally adopted children
10. Transitioning to adulthood using the individual transitional plan
Conclusion: The art of the possible: recovery after trauma
References
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Health psychology [MBNH9], Educational psychology [JNC], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]