Oslon V.N. Preschooler in a foster family

Oslon V.N. Preschooler in a foster family // Preschool Education Today. 2011, Issue 2 - p. 48-57.

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2011, 2

Veronika N. Oslon
PhD in Psychology, Head of Laboratory of Psychological and Social Problems of Prevention of Neglect and Abandonment of Moscow City University of Psychology and Education (Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

Child upbringing is a hard work. Especially when it is a child who had lost trust to the outside world through an unfortunate history of orphanhood, losses and emotional pain, frequent neglect and sometimes even physical violence. Behavior of such child often seems unacceptable and common methods of upbringing don’t seem to bring any effect. Naturally, upbringing an adopted preschooler poses a lot of questions for caregivers and teachers. How a child’s unfortunate background affected her development and could the consequences of deprivation be mended? How is it done? What does a preschooler feel being given to a foster family? What happens within a family after the adoption? What facilitates and what hinders the adoption? What upbringing methods affect a child positively and which of them make the problem stick? The answers to these questions are discussed in the article.