About Soul-Care Therapeutic Curriculum & Adoptive/Foster Parent Training
Soul-Care™ Therapeutic Curriculum, a family resource of HopeHouse International® is a Christian based curriculum that offers more than just information and advice. It is not a concept, workbook, book, etc. It is a concrete, results-oriented comprehensive approach for on-going, home-based therapeutic interventions. In addition, its Therapeutic Resource Tools are concrete methods created to be used at a moment’s notice to parent a child/teen of trauma and create healthy emotional attachments.
Understanding trauma’s effects on every area of life (past, present and future)
Guiding a child/teen from detachment towards healthy emotional attachment
Breaking shame cycles
Creating esteem cycles
Re-adjusting parental expectations
Identifying underlying roots of negative behaviors and which parental responses/consequences promote attachment
Addressing strategies for children/teens/college students with ADHD, Learning Differences, Developmental Delays (social and academic)
Restoring trust between parent and child/teen
Rediscovering hope through opportunities to help a child/teen journey from brokenness to wholeness thus changing the trajectory of a family’s future
About Co-authors
Behavioral/Trauma Specialist and Licensed Professional Counselor, Melissa N. Shaw, and Adoptive Parent and Co-Founder of HopeHouse International®, Deneen A. Turner. About Curriculum
For questions, email: soul-care@hopehouseinternational.org
Soul-Care™ Therapeutic Curriculum is successfully being used in eight countries and is translated into three languages as part of the ministry of HopeHouse International®.
HopeHouse International® serves orphans by assisting Christian families in Eastern Europe with the adequate housing required to adopt orphans and raise them in their own country.