Adoption Counseling
Adoption counseling is considered a necessity for infant adoption. This service is primarily for future birth mothers to give her an opportunity to talk through her decision to place the child and how it will affect her life post-placement. Sometimes birth mothers are in more need of counseling after placement. If the adoption is being handled by an agency, it may continue the services for a birth mother after placement. If the agency does not continue to pay for individual adoption counseling, the birth mother may be given the opportunity to attend support group meetings. Agencies also traditionally supply a future birth mother with the necessary transportation she needs to get to her counseling sessions.
In independent adoptions, pre- and post-placement counseling is strongly encouraged by experts and can legally continue after placement for up to six weeks before requiring a court appeal for payments to continue.
Some adoptive parents are intimidated by counseling because they see it as an opportunity for a birth mother to talk herself out of placing. However, adoption counseling in agency and independent adoptions is seen as a beneficial service for adoptive parents to encourage because it allows a birth mother to reaffirm her choice to place in a setting removed from familial or agency- or attorney-related pressures.
Adoption counseling is also a service that adoptees may require if they are struggling with attachment disorders or need to discuss their pre-placement lifestyle, if an older child adoptee.
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