Adoption And The Family System

Author : Miriam Reitz,Kenneth W. Watson
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0898627974

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Adoption and the Family System by Miriam Reitz,Kenneth W. Watson Pdf

Adoption is a profound experience that touches upon universal themes of abandonment, identity, sexuality, parenthood, and the sense of belonging. The authors utilize family systems theory to construct a practical treatment approach for working with families on the myriad issues and interrelationships that surround adoption. The model described here is broadly inclusive of all families linked by "the adoption triangle''--birth parents, adoptive families, and adoptees--and it offers practical guidance for implementing differential treatment and effective clinical procedures on their behalf.

Author : Nancy Newton Verrier
Publisher : British Association for Adoption and Fostering (Ba
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 1905664761

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The Primal Wound by Nancy Newton Verrier Pdf

Originally published in 1993, this classic piece of literature on adoption has revolutionised the way people think about adopted children. Nancy Verrier examines the life-long consequences of the 'primal wound' - the wound that is caused when a child is separated from its mother - for adopted people. Her argument is supported by thorough research in pre- and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding and the effects of loss.

Author : Alison Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000042115

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A for Adoption by Alison Roy Pdf

The experience of adoption—both adopting and being adopted—can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and individuals facing these complex processes and challenges. Drawing on both a psychoanalytic, theoretical framework and first-hand accounts of adopters, adoptees, and professionals within the adoption process, Alison Roy responds to the need for further and consistent support for adoptive parents and children, to help inform and understand the reality of their everyday lives. This book explores both the current and historical context of adoption, as well as its depiction within literature, before addressing issues such as conflict in relationships, the impact of significant trauma and loss, attachment and the importance of early relationships, and contact with birth families. Uniquely, this book addresses the experiences of, and provides support for, both adoptive professionals and families. It focuses on understanding rather than apportioning blame, and responds to a plea from a parent who requested "a book to help me understand my child better".

Author : Jill Waterman,Audra Langley,Jeanne Miranda,Debbie B. Riley
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 143382924X

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Adoption-specific Therapy by Jill Waterman,Audra Langley,Jeanne Miranda,Debbie B. Riley Pdf

This manual presents a structured, evidence-based protocol for mental health treatment for families that adopt vulnerable children. Children who are adopted at an older age through foster care and those adopted from overseas orphanages are at high risk for behavioral and emotional distress. This important manual presents a structured, evidence-based protocol for providing mental health treatment to families adopting vulnerable children. Drawing on their extensive clinical experience as founding members of premier national organizations that serve adopted children and their families, the authors of this book describe the typical presenting behavioral problems of adopted children, as well as the underlying issues contributing to these problems that uniquely affect adoptive families. These include concerns related to parent child attachment, loss and grief, trauma, the child's understanding of his or her adoption "story," identity development, and birth family connections. Therapy sessions deliver evidence based child coping strategies and positive parenting approaches that are tailored to account for the child's past history, alongside resiliency focused, trauma competent, attachment based treatment. The book's companion website provides free in-session handouts for practitioners. Given the unique needs of this clinical population, this book is essential for therapists who treat adopted and foster youth and their families.

Author : Pamela V. Grabe
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412816459

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Adoption Resources for Mental Health Professionals by Pamela V. Grabe Pdf

This text is designed to support mental health professionals who work with aspecific group of children: those who have lived in foster care, those who have moved from one substitute home to another, and those who must survive repeated loss of contact with people they trust and love. Because of increased efforts to find permanent homes for these children, many more have been brought to the attention of clinicians. The background and problems of these children differ significantly from those of children who have not experienced separation and loss. This book is intended to provide guidance to professionals who are trying to assess and treat children in foster care or adoptive situations. The editors provide an overview of how the child welfare system DEGREESaffects the children and parents, therapy that can be used, and basic definition of terms. The 23 contributors include professionals with extensive teaching and practical experience in the field, This book will be a basic source for mental health professionals In the field of adoption.

Author : Ann Hartman
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015015161394

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Working with Adoptive Families Beyond Placement by Ann Hartman Pdf

Author : Todd Parr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316186919

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We Belong Together by Todd Parr Pdf

In a kid-friendly, accessible way, this book explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family by showing one perspective on the adoption experience. We Belong Together is about sharing your home and sharing your heart to make a family that belongs together. With an understanding of how personal and unique each adoption is, and that not everyone comes to it in the same way, Todd Parr's colorful art explores the meaning of family.

Author : Evelyn Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0987193104

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Adoption and Loss - The Hidden Grief by Evelyn Robinson Pdf

Based on the author's personal experience as a mother who lost a child through adoption and her experience as a social worker who has worked extensively in the area of post-adoption counselling with adults, this resource graphically describes the disenfranchised grief associated with adoption and suggests ways in which that hidden grief can be acknowledged and confronted.

Author : Sharon Roszia,Allison Davis Maxon
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781784509309

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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency by Sharon Roszia,Allison Davis Maxon Pdf

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience. The Seven Core Issues are Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Mastery/Control. The book expands the model to be inclusive of adoption and all forms of permanency: adoption, foster care, kinship care, donor insemination and surrogacy. Attachment and trauma are integrated with the Seven Core Issues model to address and normalize the additional tasks individuals and families will encounter. The book views the Seven Core Issues from a range of perspectives including: multi-racial, LGBTQ, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, African-American, International, openness, search and reunion, and others. This essential guide introduces each Core Issue, its impact on individuals, offering techniques for growth and healing.

Author : Tarja Pösö,Marit Skivenes
Publisher : Research in Social Work
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1447351029

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Adoptions from Care: International Perspectives on Children's Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention by Tarja Pösö,Marit Skivenes Pdf

This book explores how children's rights are weighed against parents' rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and welfare professionals balance those rights following the decision that children cannot grow up in their parents' care, providing best practice evidence to help improve outcomes for all adopted children.

Author : David M. Brodzinsky Associate Professor of Developmental and Clinical Psychology Rutgers University,Marshall D. Schechter Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Emeritus)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199772230

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The Psychology of Adoption by David M. Brodzinsky Associate Professor of Developmental and Clinical Psychology Rutgers University,Marshall D. Schechter Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Emeritus) Pdf

In this volume David Brodzinsky, who has conducted one of the nation's largest studies of adopted children, and Marshall Schechter, a noted child psychiatrist who has been involved with adoption related issues for over forty years, have brought together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex interdisciplinary subject of adoption. While recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their nonadopted peers, and that the rate of referral of adopted children to mental-health facilities is far above what would be expected given their representation in the general population, our understanding of the basis for these problems remains unclear. In this book, theoretical, empirical, clinical, and social policy issues offer new insights into the problems facing parents of adopted children, and especially the children themselves. A comprehensive study, The Psychology of Adoption will be of interest to child psychiatrists, developmental and clinical psychologists, social workers, social service providers, and adoptive parents.

Author : David Brodzinsky,Marshall D. Schechter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035096267

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The Psychology of Adoption by David Brodzinsky,Marshall D. Schechter Pdf

"A valuable collection of chapters dealing with a wide range of theoretical, empirical, and practical issues related to adoption....Brodzinsky and Schechter are to be commended for helping to bring adoption out of the realm of opinion by securing its footing on a strong research base." --Contemporary Psychology

Author : Ann Hartman,Project Craft
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015016191374

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Finding Families by Ann Hartman,Project Craft Pdf

Presents a model of family assessment as a shared process which takes place between adoptive applicants and adoption workers, including a description of assessment tools that translate the ecological perspective into practice.

Author : Patricia Irwin Johnston
Publisher : Perspectives Press (IN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0944934102

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Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston Pdf

Author : Abbie E. Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190692049

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Open Adoption and Diverse Families by Abbie E. Goldberg Pdf

Whereas adoption was once a private affair cloaked in secrecy and sealed records, adoptions in the US today are increasingly open - that is, birth and adoptive families meet and become acquainted before the adoption, and remain in contact once it is complete. Experts agree that open adoption comes with many benefits for both birth families and adoptive families and their children, but what does it actually look like for families experiencing it, and what can we learn from those experiences? Open Adoption and Diverse Families reveals the strengths, vulnerabilities, daily struggles and triumphs of adoptive families today. Drawing on extensive interviews with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parents, many of whom adopted transracially, psychologist Abbie Goldberg confronts the extraordinary questions that open adoption poses: How do adoptive parents feel about openness when they first learn about it, and why do their feelings change over time? How does contact unfold and evolve as a child grows? What types of boundary challenges arise between adoptive and birth family members, particularly in the age of social media and networking? How do adoptive parents talk about adoption with their children, and how does this vary depending on level and type of contact with birth families? Confronting head-on difficult subjects such as birth parents' mental illness and racial differences between birth and adoptive families, Open Adoption and Diverse Families chronicles the decisions and dynamics that adoptive parents sign up for when they pursue option adoption, and is a must-read for all families pursuing or experiencing this exceptional approach to building a family.