Our groups are designed to address the needs of people coping with infertility and the complex decisions they face regarding family building.
Group for People Experiencing Infertility:
Share with others the feelings associated with a diagnosis of infertility
- Manage the stress of assisted reproductive technologies
- Explore how and when to share personal and sensitive information with others (friends and family)
- Discuss feelings about relationships with gestational carriers, surrogates and medical professionals
- If you and your partner don't see eye to eye
- Looking towards the future with hope
Group for Pre-adoptive and Waiting Parents
- Choosing the kind of adoption that is right for you
- Navigating the home study process
- Managing the stress of waiting
- Decisions, decisions, decisions, throughout the adoption process!
"Being a Family"
Our Partners in Parenting groups are designed to address the diverse needs of traditional and non-traditional adoptive families.
Group for Parents of Recently Adopted Children
- Joys and challenges of parenting
- Adjusting to your new child, what can I expect?
- Post adoption depression?
- Meet other parents
Group for Parents of Children in Elementary School
Group for Parents of Children in Middle School
Group for Parents of Children in High School
- Understanding development in the adopted child and teen
- Grief: Recognizing the feelings of loss for all
- Managing your child's challenging or risky behaviors
- Understanding and appreciating the challenge of diversity
- Strengthening family ties and fostering connections
- Understanding search and reunion questions and feelings for all
Groups for Children and Adolescents
Use art, play, and talk to:
- Build self-esteem and confidence around adoption related issues and feelings
- Encourage positive identity
- Learn new skills for talking more comfortably about adoption.
- Respond to peer pressure
- Understand connections and relationships between birth and adoptive families.
- Integrate past experiences and history in a healthy way.
Group for Adult Adoptees
- Explore the impact that adoption has on your life.
- What's adoption and what's not?
- What can I expect as I enter into adult relationships and build my own family?
- Search and reunion questions
Please call 617-965-9369 or email us at adoptionassociates@yahoo.com for more information and to reserve a space. All our groups are facilitated by experienced adoption sensitive therapists.
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