Attachment and Cultural Competence: Perspectives on Healing Family Systems
The handouts for this workshop are located here.
This was an interesting workshop. They had many different people from many different backgrounds speak and discussed what culture meant to them. Birth culture of adoptive children were discussed and how hard sometimes it is for adopted children to feel like a part of a family. Part of healing has to do with accepting the differences and helping the child find their own part in their own world, even if it is a different culture as your own. Being able to create a family culture is very helpful too.
What I found helpful is even when someone looked like they would be the same as other people with similar backgrounds explaining even the differences in the culture of the age and also acculturation can make big differences in how a person is even perceived within their own culture.
This was an interesting workshop. They had many different people from many different backgrounds speak and discussed what culture meant to them. Birth culture of adoptive children were discussed and how hard sometimes it is for adopted children to feel like a part of a family. Part of healing has to do with accepting the differences and helping the child find their own part in their own world, even if it is a different culture as your own. Being able to create a family culture is very helpful too.
What I found helpful is even when someone looked like they would be the same as other people with similar backgrounds explaining even the differences in the culture of the age and also acculturation can make big differences in how a person is even perceived within their own culture.
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