We're are looking to be better and do better. So how do we do that? When we know better we do better. Listen in to Allison's experience and expertise in development/attachment trauma and adoption/permanency to deepen your knowledge. She shares her wisdom on how adoptees think and feel, looking at their internal experience and shame. Empowering and inspiring as we go beyond the cultural narrative of adoption.
Allison Davis Maxon, M.S., LMFT is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of child welfare and children’s mental health specializing in Attachment, Developmental Trauma and Permanency/Adoption. She is the Executive Director of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency and was the foster care consultant for the Paramount Pictures movie Instant Family. Allison was honored in 2017 with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute ‘Angels in Adoption’ award and is the co-author of Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019.
https://allisondavismaxon.com/