First Steps for Strengthening Adoptive Families is a DVD-based training program to teach adoptive parents and professionals about working with adopted children.

First Steps helps parents and professionals:

• Understand the important concepts of attachment, attunement, and regulation in the context of the adoptive relationship.
• Learn ways to strengthen any adoptive parent-child relationship.
• Learn tools and techniques to
• Manage anxiety
• Improve behavior
• Reduce fears
• Increase self esteem
• …plus much more
• Use narratives (therapeutic stories) to help adopted children.

First Steps can help adoption agencies comply with Hague Accreditation Standards.

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