Adoption & Your Teenager: Insights, Concerns and Questions
This workshop will provide parents of adopted teens an opportunity to explore and discuss aspects of their teenager’s development which are associated with being an adoptee. Issues such as transitions, family dynamics, identity and loss related concerns from a developmental, social and emotional framework will be addressed.
Anne Coleman, Ph.D, is a psychotherapist and educator with over 16 years experience as a clinician and special lecturer in graduate education. In her private practice, she specializes in working with individuals and families within the adoption triad as well as individuals and couples coping with grief and loss surrounding infertility. Anne facilitates support groups through ACONE and RESOLVE in addition to currently serving as an ACONE Board member. She is an adoptive mother of two and an adopted person.
- For information, call
508.872.2230 or e-mail info@adoptioncommunityofne.org. - Pre-registration is required. There will be a fee of $10 per person for processing a change of registration or cancellation.
- Adoption Community of New England, Inc. is a non-profit support and educational organization of adoptive, foster and pre-adoptive parents, birth families, adopted persons and professionals interested in adoption. ACONE does not endorse any one kind of adoption, only the right of every child to permanency. Individual presenters are chosen because of their expertise in a given area, but ACONE is not responsible for the content of their remarks. This seminar is educational in nature and should not take the place of appropriate professional services.
