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Transplanting children – whether this occurs as the result of remarriage, removal, adoption, parental loss, or change in custody - constitutes the most difficult challenge in raising children. Like plants, it is all about their attachment roots; unlike plants, it is a great deal more complicated.

When proximity to one’s parent is neither possible nor in the child’s best interest, the child is subjected to the most impacting experience of all - separation from those to whom they are attached. When such children are unable to recover from the impact of the attachment disruption, or when they fail to adequately re-attach to the parent or parents who are raising them, nothing works as it should.

This course is addressed primarily to all the adults involved directly and indirectly in care-giving, parenting and teaching children who have not been born to the parents who are responsible for raising them. This includes adopted as well as children in the care of foster parents and step parents. It also includes children in group homes and orphanages. The course is also useful to the relatives and supporting cast of such children and their families.

Trainer

Genevieve Brabant, is a Neufeld Institute Faculty Member and a Clinical Social Worker (MSW, RSW) with over 15 years experience working as a child and family mental health practitioner (therapist) in the Ottawa area. In 2010, she launched her private practice, Le Repère Counselling Services (cflerepere.ca) with her partner and associate, Mathieu Lyons, where she offers parent consultation and play-based therapeutic services to children and youth. Genevieve gives talks and presentations across Ontario on different course topics such as Preschoolers, Teachability Factor, The Art and Science of Transplanting Children and The Science of Emotions. As a mother of three, Genevieve makes it her priority to incorporate her knowledge of the Neufeld paradigm into her daily parenting and relationships.