Handbook On Thriving As An Adoptive Family

Author : Focus On The Family,Renée Sanford
Publisher : Focus on the Family Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1589973380

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Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family by Focus On The Family,Renée Sanford Pdf

For all Parents who have expanded their families through adoption - or are considering it - this book is designed to equip you for success! Adoptive parents and counselors alike have collaborated in writing Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family - an easy-to-use resource that provides time-tested wisdom, real-life solutions, biblical guidance, and creative ideas relating to life and parenting after adopting a child. You'll read personal stories from parents who know firsthand the emotional, social, and spiritual challenges that adoptive families face.

Author : Barbara Cummins Tantrum
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781623175160

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The Adoptive Parents' Handbook by Barbara Cummins Tantrum Pdf

The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers Children who have been adopted and/or shuttled through the foster-care system experience trauma at a much higher rate than other kids, which can make it difficult for them to trust, relax, regulate their emotions, and connect with their new families. As a parent, learning how to heal attachment trauma, attune to your child's needs, identify triggers, and create felt safety is essential to providing the loving, supportive, and stable home they need to thrive. Written for parents of adopted and foster kids of all ages, this book offers resources for handling common concerns like sleep issues, food sensitivities, anger, fear, and reactivity. It also provides guidance on navigating transracial adoptions, working through parents' own hang-ups, and recognizing signs of developmental and psychological conditions. The book highlights practical strategies and provides real-life examples to address questions like: How do I help my adopted child adjust? Is this kind of behavior "normal"? How do I help my child live, heal, and thrive with PTSD?

Author : Corrie Lynn Player,Brette Sember,Mary C Owen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781605507989

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The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Your Adopted Child by Corrie Lynn Player,Brette Sember,Mary C Owen Pdf

Domestic or international? Baby or older child? A child with special needs? The number of decisions you will need to make when deciding to adopt can at times seem overwhelming. The Everything® Parent’s Guide to Raising Your Adopted Child offers all the information any potential or newly adoptive parent might need. Parenting expert and adoptive parent Corrie Lynne Player has interviewed hundreds of adoptive parents and presents a cross-section of age, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds to help you make the most informed decisions. This essential guidebook is packed with reassuring advice on how to handle the most common issues, including: -Questions to ask before adopting -Bonding techniques for each age group—from newborn to teenager -Adopting children with physiological or psychological special needs -Adopting outside your ethnic group -Navigating international adoptions -Fielding difficult questions about your adopted child’s birth parents -Helping your adopted child cope with feelings of loss and abandonment With this book by your side, you will bond with your child for a lifetime!

Author : Jane Rowe
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Adoption
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038593211

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Parents, Children and Adoption by Jane Rowe Pdf

Author : Jennifer Ranter Hook,Joshua N. Hook
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781513810492

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Thriving Families by Jennifer Ranter Hook,Joshua N. Hook Pdf

A practical roadmap for foster and adoptive families Caring for children is deeply important to the heart of God, and adoption and foster care are important callings that connect to God’s heart for children and families. But this road isn’t always easy. It’s important that foster and adoptive parents prepare to address their children’s history of trauma, separation, and disrupted placements, which can lead to mental health, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. It is also important to understand how this journey shapes and influences our children. We cannot ignore the deep feelings and questions that children experience as they try to understand their story. How can we help them navigate their identity, and sit with them in the unknowns of their story or the grief and loss that comes up? ​ Drawing on the latest science and research on trauma, attachment, sensory processing difficulties, cultural competence, and grief and loss, authors Josh and Jenn Hook provide a trauma-informed approach to help adoptive and foster families—and the church called to care for the vulnerable in our midst—to help their children heal, grow, and thrive.

Author : Sally Donovan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780857009593

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The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting by Sally Donovan Pdf

This is not just another book about adoptive parenting. This is the real stuff: dynamic, messy, baffling adoptive parenting, rooted in domestic life. Award-winning columnist and adoptive parent Sally Donovan offers savvy, compassionate advice on how to be 'good enough' in the face of both day-to-day and more bewildering challenges – how to respond to 'red mist' meltdowns, crippling anxieties about new routines and, most importantly, how to meet the intimidating challenge of being strong enough to protect and nurture your child. Full of affecting and hilarious stories drawn from life in the Donovan household, The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting offers parents a refreshing counterblast to stuffy parenting manuals -- read it, weep, laugh and learn.

Author : Susan Caughman,Isolde Motley
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780345504012

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You Can Adopt by Susan Caughman,Isolde Motley Pdf

From Adoptive Families magazine, the country’s leading resource on adoption, this warm, authoritative book is full of practical, realistic advice from leading attorneys, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as honest, intimate stories from real parents and children. You Can Adopt answers every question–even the ones you’re afraid to ask: • When should I shift from fertility treatment to adoption? • How do I talk to my spouse about adoption? • Can we find a healthy baby? • Do I need an attorney? An adoption agency? • Can the birth mother take the baby back? • How much will this really cost? How long will it take? • Aren’t all adopted children unhappy? • Can I love a child who “isn’t mine”? • How can I ease the rest of my family into this decision? Complete with checklists and worksheets, You Can Adopt will help make your dreams of family come true.

Author : Judith Schaffer,Christina Lindstrom
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015032287776

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How to Raise an Adopted Child by Judith Schaffer,Christina Lindstrom Pdf

This invaluable guide answers hundreds of questions most often asked by parents, and offers vital information on physical and psychological development. With warmth, knowledge, and sensitivity, the authors tell parents what they need to know before, during, and after adoption.

Author : Elizabeth Trinder,Julia Feast,David Howe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780470094235

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The Adoption Reunion Handbook by Elizabeth Trinder,Julia Feast,David Howe Pdf

The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.

Author : Jorie Kincaid
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0830819703

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Adopting for Good by Jorie Kincaid Pdf

There are many children who needparents.This book will show you how to find the child who needs you--whether you are single, infertile or medically prohibited from having a child, or just looking for the boy or girl you've always wanted.Author Jorie Kincaid is an adopted child herself, and she and her husband, Ron, have adopted children both domestically and internationally. In this practical guidebook she provides all the information you need to decide whether adoption is for you and to begin working through the adoption process.You'll find out how adoption works both domestically and internationally, learn the differences between open and closed adoption, and explore the steps you can take to make adoption permanent. Kincaid offers advice on special adoption needs for older children and children from other countries, cultures and races. She also helps you wrestle with ethical questions like "When does adoption become 'buying a baby'?"If you are considering adoption or if you are already in the midst of adopting a child, here is an encouraging and helpful resource you'll turn to again and again. If you're curious about whether adoption is right for you, here is experienced counsel to help you make a wise decision.

Author : Lois Ruskai Melina
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780062038166

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Making Sense of Adoption by Lois Ruskai Melina Pdf

When to tell, What to tell, and How to tell Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find answers to such questions as: -- When should I give my child the letter her birthmother wrote? -- How do I share information that might upset my child? -- How can I know when my child is wondering about adoption? -- What should I tell school personnel about my child's history? What about family and friends? -- How can I be sure we talk about adoption enough, but not too much? Whether parents adopted traditionally, as stepparents, or through donor insemination, surrogacy, or in vitro fertilization, Making Sense of Adoption will open the door to a lifetime of growth and understanding for adoptive families.

Author : Lois Ruskai Melina
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780062014368

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The Open Adoption Experience by Lois Ruskai Melina Pdf

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Author : Myra Alperson
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781466856240

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The International Adoption Handbook by Myra Alperson Pdf

For anyone involved in, or thinking about, adopting a child from abroad, The International Adoption Handbook is an essential guide. The process of international adoption can sometimes seem complex, frustrating, and endless. This step-by-step guide, which provides the necessary hard facts and information — as well as support through the experiences of the author and others — will help smooth the way. After a general discussion of who may adopt and what restrictions may apply, the book goes into the nitty-gritty of what the process entails: choosing where to adopt and how to go about it; using an agency or facilitator; initiating the home study; assembling a dossier; working with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; knowing the topes of expenses that can be anticipated; and many other issues. In addition, the book provides up-to-date information on resources, including what is available today on the Internet, information that was previously difficult for adoptive parents to find out on their own. Equally informative are the author's interviews of a number of adoptive families whose stories are interspersed throughout the book. By sharing their experiences, they help to make the process work for others.

Author : R. A. C. Hoksbergen
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1853024155

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Child Adoption by R. A. C. Hoksbergen Pdf

Child Adoption is a straightforward, concise and comprehensive guide which adoptive parents and the professionals who advise them will find invaluable. R.A.C. Hoksbergen covers the practical and emotional issues and possible problems which affect child and parents in adoption, such as: * preparation of the family and the child * adopting from different races or cultures, and dealing with discrimination * helping the child adjust to school * discussing the adoptive status with the child. This handbook provides much-needed information so that everyone involved in the adoption process can make educated and fully thought-out decisions. It is invaluable reading for any professional involved in the process of adoption including adoption workers and lawyers, social workers and couples who are considering adoption.

Author : Elizabeth Swire Falker
Publisher : Grand Central Life & Style
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780446562300

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The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption by Elizabeth Swire Falker Pdf

This comprehensive, accessible guide leads you with confidence through every decision you'll have to make during the adoption process -- including the ones that you'd never know to expect. So you've made the decision to adopt. What's next? For starters, how do you know whether domestic or international adoption is right for you? (And what are the real differences between the two?) Adoption insider Elizabeth Swire Falker answers these questions and many more. As an attorney who practices in the area of adoption and has worked with hundreds of families, and as an adoptive parent herself, she offers expert advice on each stage of the process. Complete with checklists, tips, sidebars, and plenty of advice, it shows you how to: Identify which adoption experts you do and don't need Find the right birth mother or choose the right country for your family-and how to spot red flags in potential situations Select an attorney or agency and prepare for your home visit Finance an adoption on a budget, manage the red tape, and get around the roadblocks Navigate all of the complex emotions that surface along the way With Elizabeth Swire Falker's warm yet been-there-done-that voice, The Insider's Guide to Adoption is sure to become a tried-and-true resource for adoptive parents everywhere.