This event is designed to help adoptive and foster parents, ministry leaders, and professionals connect with
children from hard places in order to help them heal and become all that God desires for them to be.
While a variety of teaching strategies may be successful in typical circumstances,
children from hard places need caregiving that meets their unique needs and addresses the whole child.
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance of parents exploring their expectations and motivations, as well as the impact that their own history can have when
parenting children from hard places.
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance of predictability
for children from hard places, and how parents can help children succeed by enabling them to know what to expect.
TBRI ® Caregiver Training: Correcting Principles — Addressing fear - based behaviors Proactive and responsive correction and discipline techniques that are effective
with children from hard places.
Dr. Karyn Purvis is the founder and director of the Texas Christian University Institute of Child Development and a passionate advocate for «
children from hard places», a phrase that describes children with histories of trauma, abuse and neglect.
In addition, we have found that as
these children from hard place become about ten or eleven years of age the adrenals «burn out» because they have pumped so hard, for so long.
Host Dawn Davenport interviewed Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of The Connected Child and director of the Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University, about how abuse, neglect and institutionalization affects children in the short term and long term, and what parenting techniques work for
these children from hard places.
Julie has advanced trauma training in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI ®) to support foster and adoptive families and
children from hard places.
Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting
a child from a hard place.
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children from hard places, Dr. Casey Call, Dr. Karyn Purvis, TBRI
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We recently brought home our 4th and 5th adopted children from Haiti and I can attest to the fact that parenting
these children from hard places is the HARDEST thing I have ever done.
We just wanted to help... to help
these children from the hard places, to help a child see that they are lovable, that they deserve a family.