Foster & Adoptive Parenting

Symptoms, diagnosis, medication, power struggles, keeping things positive, and becoming advocates for children.

Temper tantrums, assaultive behavior towards other children, rage toward the mother, and unpredictable anger are some of the most prevalent problems for foster parents and staff. Offers the viewer steps on working with children who have these anger problems.

Children in foster care often have very serious issues around food. Parents learn how to identify and better understand the top four problems: stealing and hoarding food, gorging, refusing to eat certain foods, and anorexia-bulimia. Learn creative yet practical solutions to these problems.

The biggest fear in foster care is firesetting, yet foster parents receive little training or information about it. Parents gain a clear understanding of children who show distinctly different types of fire-setting behavior: silent but deadly, impulsive, disturbed, and accidental.

This video presents 10 realistic situations that many foster and adoptive parents face. Anger, stealing, bad manners, and inappropriate sexual behavior are just a few of the situations covered in this helpful program.

Lying is the single most common child behavior problem reported by foster parents. Parents learn to understand and deal with this frustrating issue by looking at four types of lying behavior: lying to save face, lying to gain attention, pathological lying, and lying to get others in trouble.

Dr. Richard Delaney helps foster and adoptive parents understand the forces behind children’s sexual acting out behavior. Parents learn to pay attention to the warning signs and how to take appropriate action.

Examines four types of sleep problems in children: fears about sleeping alone, frequent waking and roaming, nightmares and night terrors and sleep problems with depression. Offers the viewer understanding, insights and practical steps to overcome these problems.