Provide training specific to the
needs of the family and their
adoption plan (e.g. attachment, adopting an older child,
trans - racial
adoption, parenting a child with special
needs, family transitions, open
adoption relationships, etc).
The home study social worker will discuss such things as child development, attachment, initial child transition into a family, life - long
adoption matters,
trans - racial and
trans - cultural
adoption issues, separation and loss, the impact of institutional care on a child's medical and developmental
needs, open
adoption relationships with birth parents, undiagnosed conditions, limited social / medical / genetic history, etc..