58: Attachment Trauma & Adoption
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2016
- Welcome back to Therapy Chat! Episode 58 is the first in the series on Trauma and Attachment. In today’s episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Amy Sugeno, LCSW. Amy is a clinical social worker in private practice who specializes in working with survivors of trauma related to attachment, particularly related to adoption.
Amy explains how attachment trauma can affect children who were adopted, even if the adoption went as smoothly as it possibly could. She describes how children who have been adopted may act out behaviorally to tell their parents how they feel. Amy also talks about a surprising way adoptive parents (and others parenting traumatized children) may experience trauma themselves and how to recognize the symptoms. She and Laura discuss how prior difficulty with conceiving a child can contribute to the experience for parents, how the parent’s own attachment style and trauma history is “churned up” through the process of adoption. She describes how adoption can change relationships within a family and between the family and their community. She explains some of the non-verbal ways of processing trauma that she uses with her clients. Amy describes Nature as her “co-therapist.” She tells listeners how to get on her mailing list and offers opportunities to hear her speak around the country.
This is the first of the series on trauma and attachment, which will continue on alternating weeks through the next few months. And on the opposite weeks you will hear the series on integrative mental health! Thanks for listening to Therapy Chat. Please get in touch and let host Laura Reagan know what you thought of this episode!
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Amy Sugeno’s website: www.amysugenocounseling.com/
Transracial adoptee here listening. I can't afford a good therapist and all the therapists I've been to are idiots so this is very helpful for me.
Hard to find a good therapist...you are 10 steps ahead of most. Keep it up:)
Shambolic description of attachment styles.
There should be a class for adoptive parents thru the agency. If u know what to look for u could know how to handle things productively. I know i would have benefited from that as well as my daughter.
Yes!!! The entire course of my little brother’s life could have been so different! In 1975, my parents were told nothing of what to expect. Apparently, much of this knowledge wasn’t even known by therapists or social workers back then. He was in five foster homes before we adopted him at the age of 6, and abused in his family of origin. It was as though a tornado blew through our family. We really needed this information!
Stolen from my birth mother in the 60's, I was then handed to abusive emotionally disturbed parents, all I can remember is cringing and fear that's the only way I can describe it. Between the loss of my mother and family, plus the abuse I suffered, all I got out of this adoption was C- PTSD. and life of loneliness because of the inability the form lasting relationships with anyone.. Currently I am looking into the possibility of litigation against those who did this to me. This was a form of genocide and I want compensation for life long damage done to me.
Fair enough. Good luck with you journey. Healing is possible.
I feel the same. My adoption through Bethany Christian Services was illegal. My mother was coerced and threatened to give me up. Then I was purchased by abusers. I have c-ptsd. My brain has never known a healthy relationship or healthy environment...nothing but pain. Bethany owes myself and my mother millions in damages.
Could I get the name of the speaker?? For additional questions
It’s a shame that the interviewer clearly isn’t paying attention to the interviewees responses
I believe because it is difficult to ask the questions when you haven’t personally experienced any aspect of adoption yourself.
I think the interviewer is paying attention but gets lost on what is being said to her
It is hard to grasp when the seriousness of the subject is beyond what doesn’t affect you
I agree with the response above. I also find that commonly, even on the news, an interviewer has already composed their list of questions, and doesn’t have time or else is able to think deftly on their feet in the actual moment to compose a reflective response. There is a desire to get one’s questions all in. I still think she’s a really great interviewer, compassionate to the topic, and I bless her immensely for caring about this topic and doing this interview - TWICE, even, since the first time, the audio wasn’t captured successfully. They’re both really fantastic to redo the interview! It’s terrific and I’m so glad to have had the chance to listen to this!
Not much about adoptees trauma on this. Seems to be focusing on the APs .