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No, I definitley don't think you're alone!
I kind of knew I wanted to go into social services or behavioral health even before Marie's adoption. Going through the adoption experience (actually beginning to heal from it, rather than the experience itself) just narrowed down the choices for me.
My office doesn't do much with domestic newborn adoptions--more international and lots of foster/waiting kids--so right now I'm being exposed to a whole new adoption world. Sooo many foster kids have so much trauma in their background, and (sadly) there are really not enough good child psychologists who SPECIALIZE in certain areas. (RAD being one.) So that's got me thinking a little more about that....
Child psych was always my favorite psych class in school, but I've never been a "kid magnet," if you know what I mean, so I second-guess whether I'd really be that great working with kids. Whereas I do have plenty of first-hand knowledge about being a birthmom.. but then I wonder, if I were to become a birthparent counselor, if I'd have problems counseling birthparents who didn't voluntarily relinquish....... I don't know. Lots to think about-- plenty of time.
Hmmm.
What are you thinking about?
Nicole
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