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Youth-led Advocacy Groups Empower Foster Youth
J. Cortez III was just 16 years old when he proved to the court he was independent and could be legally emancipated from his mother, though he’d been on his own since he was 12. […]
Month: June 2017
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Your Dog: An Unconditional Innovation in Attachment and Trauma Treatment
A multitude of recent studies strengthen the case for dogs in therapy and Calo Programs, an innovative behavioral health organization, has taken the use of canines to a whole other level. A new study conducted […]
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The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
By Leah Kuypers, Think Social Publishing, 2011, ISBN: 978-0982523165, $47.99 For many adopted children, development has been mediated by complex childhood trauma. The major symptoms of developmental trauma are “mixed maturity:” difficulties with self-regulation of […]