Haiti Orphan Adoption:

Ensuring a Successful Transition

Haiti adoption interest has spiked after the disastrous earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti. The U.S. State Department is helping to expedite the placement of children into their adoptive homes.

While this is a victory for the children of Haiti, it is also vitally important that these adoptive families be given the resources, knowledge, and support they need in order to ensure a successful transition for these doubly traumatized children.

In response to the crisis, you are invited to listen in on this discussion regarding the orphans being adopted out of this country: http://www.beyondconsequences.com/asktheexpert/haiti/

Join Heather T. Forbes, LCSW and Dr. Ronald Federici as they discuss the dynamics in transitioning these children from disaster to safety and security.

“These children who have come out of Haiti have experienced double trauma and are in deep survival mode,” says Forbes. “Parents have got to have realistic expectations of the child and make their world very small, focusing first on physical safety, security and establishing trust.”

Forbes’ Beyond Consequences Institute is offering a free support group for parents who are adopting a child from Haiti and connect with other parents going through this process.

For more information on the support group or to arrange an interview with Forbes, contact Moya Smith at 407-965-1131.

For similar discussions in parenting traumatized children, see:
Dr. Bruce Perry & Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman

About the Beyond Consequences Institute:
Mission: To provide every child the opportunity to be parented out of love, ending the myth that a child can only respond and bond to a parent through fear-based parenting.

The Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC, educates and provides resources for helping children with severe acting out behaviors. Many of these children have been previously diagnosed with such disorders as reactive attachment disorder, bipolar, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, depression, and the list goes on and on.

Most traditional techniques accepted amongst nationally recognized professionals in this field are fear-based and child-blaming. While some of the traditional techniques may seem to help in the short-run, in the long-run, they simply create more fear in the parent-child relationship, many times resulting in chaotic and unsafe homes.

BCI promotes a groundbreaking approach that has helped even the most difficult of family cases find stability and healing. Based on scientific research, the Beyond Consequences Model provides a simple yet powerful model for helping children with severe behavior. The Beyond Consequences Model has been shown over and over to help families find the healing that they have been looking for after years of “trying everything and nothing worked.”

Live, Interactive Classes for Caregivers of Children with Difficult Behaviors now available Online for Adoption, Foster or Court Requirement and Personal / Professional Growth

Heather T. Forbes, LCSW of the Beyond Consequences Institute (BCI), offers parents and professionals a new and exciting interactive online program, available at www.beyondconsequencesonline.com.

This unique 11 week program offers live, interactive courses in a virtual classroom environment for both parents and professionals. The course is based on the book authored by Forbes, “Beyond Consequences, Logic & Control; A Love-Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors” which is frequently a #1 Amazon.com Bestseller in the Adoption Category. This course is ideal for those needing to take a parenting class for adoption and foster parent training, at the request of the court, as part of a legal or probationary requirement, a custody agreement, or simply for personal growth as a parent or professional.

“Parents can take advantage of the technology we use to get connected and supported in ways they’ve never been able to before.” says Forbes, “We have designed an online experience like no other. The Beyond Consequences Online professional and parenting training program can be taken from anywhere in the world and can be attended live or through the recordings.”

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For Immediate Release

In this economy, free doesn’t usually get you much. But mom, licensed clinical social worker, and best selling author Heather T. Forbes is offering parents a free full day seminar on parenting. Forbes’ book Beyond Consequences Logic and Control, A Love Based approach to Helping attachment-Challenged Children  with Severe Behaviors,  leads the adoption section in sales on Amazon and outlines the parenting paradigm she seeks to share.

The mother of two children adopted from Russia, Heather gave up a career as an architect and went back to school to get her Masters in Social Work when presented with challenging behaviors from her children. She learned, in her journey with her own kids, that parenting that is reactive to a child’s negative behaviors, does not help the child’s healing, nor better the relationship between parent and child. Rather, reactive parenting is parenting from a place of fear. So the parent who says to a dysregulated child “You will not talk to me that way” and expects the child to be able to respond appropriately may be disappointed.

“Parenting should always be done from a place of love and not fear,” says Forbes. “Our children are our greatest treasure and their own trauma histories and dysreglation need to be addressed with unconditional love in order to make our lives as parents better and to improve our families’ lives.”

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