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Help! Is this what you’re saying to social care?

Posted on 26/07/2018 by Parents of Adopted Teens (POTATO group)

Decision makers please listen to and respond to pleas by desperate adoptive parents

Category: Pages, The Adoption Social BLOG, Therapeutic Reparenting Adopted Teens BLOG Tags: ADOPTED, allowance, BLOG, camhs, decision makers, families, Professionals, single parent, Social Care, Support, therapy, trauma, Traumatised

Blogging for Bamboo

Posted on 22/07/2017 by Parents of Adopted Teens (POTATO group)

Several members have submitted pieces and they have been accepted onto the Adoption Social website. We have had an excellent lot of feedback from these pieces, our most recent conclusion of the Bamboo Scaffolding set of pieces. If you would…

Category: Pages, The Adoption Social BLOG, Therapeutic Reparenting Adopted Teens BLOG Tags: Bamboo, BLOG, the adoption social, trauma

Mental Health and staying in.

Posted on 10/05/2017 by Parents of Adopted Teens (POTATO group)

This blog piece is by a member of our group who has extensive experience of Mental Health issues within the family made up of adopted young people. Fascinating insight into how it is to try and get adequate and appropriate…

Category: Pages, The Adoption Social BLOG, Therapeutic Reparenting Adopted Teens BLOG Tags: Adoption, appropriate, Bed, exhaustion, feelings, inpatient, Mental health, Parents, result, trauma