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Parenting Your Adopted School-Age Child
Offers information to help adoptive parents understand and respond to their adopted school-age child's developmental needs. It provides simple, practical strategies to foster healthy development, including approaches for building attachment, talking honestly about adoption, acknowledging the child’s adoptive history, using appropriate discipline, and enhancing the school experience. Because some adoptive families need extra help addressing their children's mental health needs, the factsheet also discusses when and how to seek help.
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Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2015). Parenting your adopted school-age child. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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