Lesson 1 Pretest — Test Your “AQ”

1. Clients do not need to complete a thorough discernment process.

2. Clients can rely on what they already know about adoption.

3. The coach’s mindset and presuppositions regarding adoption can impact the client.

4. Infertility is the most common motivation that propels clients to consider adoption.

5. Couples who lack agreement about wanting to adopt can benefit from coaching.

6. Unresolved feelings about infertility are not relevant to the decision to adopt.

7. Adoptive parenting and bio parenting are exactly the same.

8. All adoptees experience trauma whether adopted at infancy or at later ages.

9. Therapists and other professionals who know little about adoption can still provide adequate support to adoptive families.

10. The adoptive family’s decisions have little to do with the birth mom.

11. When working with clients, a Tri-spective coaching approach is helpful but not necessary.

12. The Elements of Adoption Attunement support a Tri-spective coaching model.

13. All people should always strive to use Positive Adoption Language.

14. Only adoptees feel the impact of the seven core issues of adoption.

15. The dominant cultural narrative about adoption is hyper-positive and incomplete.