However, physical punishment will only reinforce the child's sense of being unsafe, insecure, and distrustful. Give foster and adoptive parents honest and complete information about the child. An important way to minimize the negatives of TPR is to be sure that we know everything possible there is to know about the child, and to share this information accurately with the potential adoptive parents. It is counterproductive to sugarcoat the negative behavior and just hope adoptive parents will learn to live with it. We must also learn what the adoptive parents think they can tolerate.
Adoption is a lifelong process.
Subsidy not only allows for post adoption services, but also provides cash payments, vendor payments, Medicaid, and financial assistance known as nonrecurring expenses reimbursement. Medicaid will pay for mental health appointments for adopted children, and there are additional incentives for special needs children that can help pay for residential treatment, covers the cost of psychiatric medications, etc. The whole area of subsidy and its availability to our children is critical for social workers to know about and use. Social workers can also help by referring adoptive parents to affordable child therapists in the area who can help them deal with a child's depression, severe aggression, or other emotional behavioral problems that are too serious for parents to handle alone. If this can be arranged, it should be.