Most children who are in foster care or adopted from foster care have been through some type of trauma. After all, they’re in foster care in a reason. That reason is not because they were in a safe, structured, loving environment. Something happened to lead to the removal.

The traumatic event, and the removal itself can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). According to a study by Casey Family Services in 2005, foster children are twice as likely to have PTSD as US war veterans.

The event itself does not have to... more

We did a different kind of therapy with our new in home therapist on Sunday. Yes, a therapist that comes to the house on a Sunday.

The therapy sounds very simple, but it was very enlightening. Experential therapy involves doing a “project” together while the therapist watches the interactions among the people involved.

Now, I was pretty skeptical of all this. We have done so many types of therapy and the only one that was even remotely successful was attachment therapy. We had an incredible therapist who saw right through... more

After my post about seasonal depression yesterday, I was thinking about several things. One was when I had taken Sammy to the doctor last fall after he came down with a case of pink eye. The doctor said it was allergy related and not bacteria related. He gave us some prescription allergy drops, and had me give Sammy an antihistamine. The amazing thing is what it did to his behavior. His aggressive behavior diminished greatly.

I started to do... more

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I’ll try to explain what I can understand and how it affected our family. I’m not a medical professional, so PLEASE check with a professional.

Kids who take lots of antibiotics early in life, not only develop an immunity to them, but it kills off the “good” bacteria in their body. When I went back and checked Sammy’s medical records, I discovered that his first dose of antibiotics came when he was less than... more

What do these three things have in common? Actually, quite a bit.

The first thing may come as a surprise, but all three things were covered quite extensively on the daytime talk show, “The View”. In November, they devoted an entire hour to Foster Care, and even talked about foster care adoption. In January they also devoted the entire hour to Autism, and had Toni Braxton as a guest co-host. She has a child with Autism. You can find information about Austism on the show's... more

A reader on the Adoption.com forums just posed an interesting question about paying for treatment. Read her thread here.

Foster children, and children adopted from foster care have Title 19 (Medicaid) for their insurance. If the child is adopted, or a pre-adoptive placement, you can place the child on your medical insurance.

The problem comes when you can’t find an adequate provider that takes Title... more