The flight of the stork

Self-Help

Bernstein, Anne C.

Perspectives Press

Adopting After Infertility

Politics & Social Sciences

Johnston, Patricia Irwin

Social Sciences

September, 2010: Adopting received the Mom's Choice Award gold medal for family-friendly Adoption books. May 28, 2009: Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families won the Benjamin Franklin Award presented to the best 2008-published book in the field of Self Help by the Independent Book Publishers Association. If you are trying to decide whether to adopt at all, or how to adopt, or from where, or what kind of child to adopt, this book will walk you through making those decisions.

Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Patricia Irwin Johnston

Women's Health

Brothers and Sisters in Adoption won a 2010 gold medal from Mom's Choice Awards for family-friendly adult books in adoption, and was the 2010 winner of IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Award as the best new book in the field of psychology. When experienced parents decide to adopt an older child or a sibling group, they jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops background checks, interviews, group meetings, reading assignments, classes, etc. But most often the typically developing children these adults are already parenting (whether through birth or adoption) are left out of the process, informed that a new kid is coming, and simply expected to adjust to the addition of a sibling. Adding a child with a history of neglect or trauma cannot be a seamless transition. The expectations of everyone involved parents, new siblings, and, yes, the professionals facilitating the adoption must be realistic, taking into account that the new child will need special attention and services that may take away time and attention from the already resident kids, that family life is likely to be turned topsy- turvy until appropriate counseling and support are in place, that relationships will change. Therapist Arleta James is certainly not the first person to recognize this, but she is the first to do something about it. Brothers and Sisters and Adoption offers insights and examples and sturdy, practical, proven tools for helping newly configured families prepare, accept, react, and mobilize to become a new and different family meeting the practical, physical and emotional needs of all its members. These well prepared and supported families are the ones who thrive!

Brothers and Sisters in Adoption

Parenting & Relationships

Arleta M. James

Adoption

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma

Adoption has changed dramatically in less than a decade. With higher and higher percentages of children joining their families not as newborns, but from domestic or international foster care or from orphanages abroad, both parents and the professionals with whom they consult need new skills. From the author of Attaching in Adoption (already a must-have book for both adoptive parents and placement professionals) comes this new tool designed to help placement professionals and therapists whose practices are not focused specifically on adoption and attachment understand how new research on the impact of neglect, abuse, early trauma, and institutionalization on the developing brains of children can guide their practices in new directions. Nurturing Adoption s goal is to help professionals to assist parents in healing their children s and guiding them into strong and healthy relationships and productive adulthood. The hardcover was a 2008 silver medalist in the Benjamin Franklin Awards!

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

Deborah D. Gray

Our Baby

Unknown, Author

In the face of insurmountable problems, a young bird mother finds the strength to make an adoption plan for her much loved baby, giving him a stable home and two loving parents.

THE MULBERRY BIRD Story of an Adoption

Brodzinsky, Anne Braff

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