Author: Rowena Fong
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540825
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, policy, and service requirements relating to white, African American, Asian American, Latino and Mexican American, and Native American children and adoptive families. It addresses specific problems faced by adoptive families with children and youth from China, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Korea, and Guatemala, and offers targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma, mental health treatment, and the challenges of gay or lesbian adoptions
Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions
Author: Rowena Fong
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540825
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, policy, and service requirements relating to white, African American, Asian American, Latino and Mexican American, and Native American children and adoptive families. It addresses specific problems faced by adoptive families with children and youth from China, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Korea, and Guatemala, and offers targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma, mental health treatment, and the challenges of gay or lesbian adoptions
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540825
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, policy, and service requirements relating to white, African American, Asian American, Latino and Mexican American, and Native American children and adoptive families. It addresses specific problems faced by adoptive families with children and youth from China, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Korea, and Guatemala, and offers targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma, mental health treatment, and the challenges of gay or lesbian adoptions
Nurturing Adoptions
Author: Deborah D. Gray
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 085700607X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma. This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 085700607X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma. This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.
Adoption Reunions
Author: Michelle McColm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In this practical book, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion; drawing on extensive interviews and the experience of her own reunion.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In this practical book, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion; drawing on extensive interviews and the experience of her own reunion.
Mishka
Author: Adrienne Ehlert Bashista
Publisher: Drt Press
ISBN: 9781933084015
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mother talks to her child about what life was like before the child was adopted from Russia, and what life is like now.
Publisher: Drt Press
ISBN: 9781933084015
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mother talks to her child about what life was like before the child was adopted from Russia, and what life is like now.
International Adoptions
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intercountry adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intercountry adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Special Needs Adoptions
Author: Ruth G. McRoy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317713931
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317713931
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Intercountry Adoptions
Author: Jaffe
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 900463777X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The incidence of foreign adoptions from the nations of South America, Eastern Europe and Asia has greatly increased as a result of the drastic decrease in the number of adoptable babies from western nations. This book, written by adoption workers and legal scholars from twelve 'sending' countries, presents, for the first time, details of those countries' adoption laws and procedures as well as international agreements governing foreign adoptions. Intercountry Adoptions constitutes an important and long-awaited reference book for potential adoptive couples, child care workers, legal experts and social service agencies.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 900463777X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The incidence of foreign adoptions from the nations of South America, Eastern Europe and Asia has greatly increased as a result of the drastic decrease in the number of adoptable babies from western nations. This book, written by adoption workers and legal scholars from twelve 'sending' countries, presents, for the first time, details of those countries' adoption laws and procedures as well as international agreements governing foreign adoptions. Intercountry Adoptions constitutes an important and long-awaited reference book for potential adoptive couples, child care workers, legal experts and social service agencies.
Talking with Young Children about Adoption
Author: Mary Watkins
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063172
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063172
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.
Being Adopted
Author: David M. Brodzinsky
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385414269
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385414269
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.
Promoting Successful Adoptions
Author: Susan Livingston Smith
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761906576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place. The authors, Susan Livingston Smith and Jeanne A. Howard, incorporate the findings of their own unique research project on troubled adoptive families with other empirical research, theory, practice, and knowledge. This volume is rich with case examples, detailed case histories, presentations of various practice strategies, and resources. The overall result is a stand-alone volume offering a clear and well-documented overview of the topic. It will be invaluable to social workers and other professionals working with children and families.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761906576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place. The authors, Susan Livingston Smith and Jeanne A. Howard, incorporate the findings of their own unique research project on troubled adoptive families with other empirical research, theory, practice, and knowledge. This volume is rich with case examples, detailed case histories, presentations of various practice strategies, and resources. The overall result is a stand-alone volume offering a clear and well-documented overview of the topic. It will be invaluable to social workers and other professionals working with children and families.