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09/01/2012
Conference To Meet Over Rise In International Adoption
Health professionals are to attend a conference on the increase of internationally adopted children coming to Ireland next week.
Organisers of the conference, which is taking place in Cork, said that over the last few years an increasing number of internationally adopted children were coming into hospital and social services with "an array of emotional and behavioural difficulties".
"Our experience is that families have found their children do not respond to the usual interventions used with non-internationally adopted children of comparable age."
The objective of the conference is organising to share experiences and information between professionals and parents regarding children and adolescents who have been adopted from abroad.
"Our view is that the complex difficulties experienced by this group have only come to the attention of professionals in recent years."
Speakers at the conference, who are foremost in their field, will address such complex issues as attachment disorders, effects of institutionalisation and foetal alcohol syndrome.
The organisers said they hoped to establish a common recognition of the issues and to begin to work towards developing methods of assisting internationally adopted children/adolescents and their families.
(DW/GK)
Organisers of the conference, which is taking place in Cork, said that over the last few years an increasing number of internationally adopted children were coming into hospital and social services with "an array of emotional and behavioural difficulties".
"Our experience is that families have found their children do not respond to the usual interventions used with non-internationally adopted children of comparable age."
The objective of the conference is organising to share experiences and information between professionals and parents regarding children and adolescents who have been adopted from abroad.
"Our view is that the complex difficulties experienced by this group have only come to the attention of professionals in recent years."
Speakers at the conference, who are foremost in their field, will address such complex issues as attachment disorders, effects of institutionalisation and foetal alcohol syndrome.
The organisers said they hoped to establish a common recognition of the issues and to begin to work towards developing methods of assisting internationally adopted children/adolescents and their families.
(DW/GK)
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