Special Needs Adoptions

Author : James Rosenthal,Victor K. Groza
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780275937904

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Special-Needs Adoption by James Rosenthal,Victor K. Groza Pdf

This volume reports the results of a large-scale survey of families who adopted children with special needs: older children, minority children, handicapped children, or sibling groups. In contrast to much of the current literature which focuses on adoption disruption, this study shifts the focus of inquiry to intact families. It assesses perceptions of social work services, parent-child relationships, family functioning, child behavior, school performance, and other aspects of adoptive family life. Rosenthal and Groze compare outcomes for different types of adoptions, including adoptions of children of different ages, adoptions by minority families, transracial adoptions, single-parent adoptions, adoptions by less educated and less wealthy families, adoptions by foster parents, adoptions of children with handicaps, and sibling group adoptions. The authors offer solid advice, based on their sample of 800 respondents, regarding various aspects of practice in the field of adoption, including selection of families, preparation of families and children, and useful follow-up services. Special-Needs Adoption is an invaluable tool for agencies developing adoption programs, and practitioners seeking the latest information regarding adoptive family dynamics.

Author : Ruth G. McRoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317713920

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Special Needs Adoptions by Ruth G. McRoy Pdf

With the new federal mandate to double, by the year 2002, the number of children in foster care who are to be adopted or placed in permanent legal guardianships, it is essential for adoption agency staff and prospective families to learn which factors contribute to successful and unsuccessful placements. Dr. Ruth McRoy's informative guide, Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues outlines what formulates a successful match between adoptable children with special needs and their prospective parents, and how the current placements can be improved. Dr. McRoy recognizes the challenges of building families through adoptions and offers specific training suggestions for special needs adoptive families and agency workers in order to improve adoption outcomes for children. The book is based on a research project designed to identify special needs adoptions practice issues that contributed to intact, disruptive and dissolved adoptions by collecting data from adoption supervisors, post-adoption service providers, and actual case records of adoption placements. Based on the findings, the characteristics of children needing adoptive placement are described, practice issues such as matching children and parents are addressed, and transition planning is discussed. Further, controversial placement issues including foster parent adoptions, single parent adoptions, sibling placement and transracial adoptions are dealt with. Special Needs Adoptions is a rich, resourceful guide for all of the parties involved in a special need adoption: state and private adoption agency staff, post-adoption service providers, child welfare policy makers and researchers. Special Needs Adoptions is also a wonderful resource for adoptive parents or prospective parents considering special needs adoptions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : IND:30000099326872

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Adopting a Child with Special Needs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laraine Masters Glidden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 0866569146

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Formed Families by Laraine Masters Glidden Pdf

This book is about adoptions where the adoptive child is handicapped. It documents how and why adoption has changed to a service that emphasizes parents for children rather than children for parents.

Author : Project Share
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Adoption
ISBN : UCR:31210023337064

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Adoption and Foster Care for Special Needs Children by Project Share Pdf

Author : British Columbia. Ministry of Social Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 0772673500

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Adoption : Assistance for Children with Special Needs by British Columbia. Ministry of Social Services Pdf

Author : Gregory Keck,Regina Kupecky
Publisher : Tyndale House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781615214471

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Adopting the Hurt Child by Gregory Keck,Regina Kupecky Pdf

Without avoiding the grim statistics, this book reveals the real hope that hurting children can be healed through adoptive and foster parents, social workers, and others who care. Includes information on foreign adoptions.

Author : Linda Anne Babb,Rita Laws
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015041061428

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Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child by Linda Anne Babb,Rita Laws Pdf

Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 21 children, 13 of them adopted children with special needs. Tens of thousands of children in the United States alone are waiting in foster care for parents, and many Americans, single and married, want to open their hearts and homes to these children who wait. A landmark 1980 federal law made adopting and raising special needs children affordable even for people of limited means. What could be easier than matching these kids to these families? The reality is that many prospective adopters never complete the adoption process because of red tape, regulations, and institutional lethargy. Among the adults who complete a homestudy or placement, lack of support services and advocacy training sometimes leads to heartbreak and adoption failure—not a happy ending. Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 23 children, 14 of them adopted children with special needs.

Author : Sallie R. Churchill,Bonnie E. Carlson,Lynn M. Nybell
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015016306287

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No Child Is Unadoptable by Sallie R. Churchill,Bonnie E. Carlson,Lynn M. Nybell Pdf

Author : Katherine A. Nelson
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015018477367

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On the Frontier of Adoption by Katherine A. Nelson Pdf

Author : British Columbia. Ministry of Social Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 0772673497

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Adoption : Special Needs Children by British Columbia. Ministry of Social Services Pdf

Author : Rosemary J. Avery
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019277420

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Adoption Policy and Special Needs Children by Rosemary J. Avery Pdf

This edited volume contains contributions from leading researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and advocates in adoption policy and practice. Topics covered include adoption advocacy, race and adoption, placement of older and disabled children, adoption disruption, adoptive parent recruitment, and policy related to federal adoption subsidy support. This collection brings together leading researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and advocates in the area of adoption policy and practice. All chapter contributors are nationally recognized leaders in their particular fields of expertise. Several have been instrumental in shaping public policy and legislation on behalf of special needs children and their families. Chapters cover the following topics: advocacy on behalf of special needs children, racial issues in the placement and adoption of special needs children, issues involved in the adoption of older and disabled children, adoption disruption, recruitment of adoptive parents for special needs children, and federal and state policy related to adoption subsidy support. The volume covers the key issues related to both practice and policy in child welfare. As such it is essential reading for professionals and policy makers in social/human services and child welfare. Scholars and other researchers in the field will also find the collection invaluable.

Author : James Rosenthal,Victor K. Groza
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015021637114

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Special-Needs Adoption by James Rosenthal,Victor K. Groza Pdf

This volume reports the results of a large-scale survey of families who adopted children with special needs: older children, minority children, handicapped children, or sibling groups. In contrast to much of the current literature which focuses on adoption disruption, this study shifts the focus of inquiry to intact families. It assesses perceptions of social work services, parent-child relationships, family functioning, child behavior, school performance, and other aspects of adoptive family life. Rosenthal and Groze compare outcomes for different types of adoptions, including adoptions of children of different ages, adoptions by minority families, transracial adoptions, single-parent adoptions, adoptions by less educated and less wealthy families, adoptions by foster parents, adoptions of children with handicaps, and sibling group adoptions. The authors offer solid advice, based on their sample of 800 respondents, regarding various aspects of practice in the field of adoption, including selection of families, preparation of families and children, and useful follow-up services. Special-Needs Adoption is an invaluable tool for agencies developing adoption programs, and practitioners seeking the latest information regarding adoptive family dynamics.

Author : Victor Groza
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018317110

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Successful Adoptive Families by Victor Groza Pdf

This study, done over a four-year period, focuses on children who are older than infants when placed for adoption, children who are members of a sibling group, and children with physical, emotional, or behavioral difficulties. There are an estimated 35,000 such children each year who need assistance in placement. The book explores issues of separation from siblings, adoption experiences of children who had been physically or sexually abused, and social support. The purpose of this book is to provide empirically grounded knowledge and information that will help social workers practice more effectively with special needs placements.

Author : Lita Linzer Schwartz,Florence Kaslow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781135421052

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Welcome Home! by Lita Linzer Schwartz,Florence Kaslow Pdf

Examine the pros and cons of nontraditional adoption! Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential guide to the process, pros, and cons of adopting children from outside the United States, with special needs, and/or from a different racial/cultural background. The book documents every aspect of the adoption procedure—from working with “facilitators,” adoption agencies, and attorneys to mixed reactions over a child’s possible loss of heritage as the result of a transracial or multicultural adoption. Parents and adoptees offer unique, firsthand perspectives on the cautions and benefits of nontraditional adoption. Americans adopted more than 20,000 children from other countries in 2001, a number that reflects humanitarian motives, the desire to adopt a child from a specific country, and/or frustration with the domestic adoption system. Including a foreword by United States Representative Ted Strickland, Welcome Home! is a practical resource for anyone thinking of establishing a family or adding to their own. The book provides insight into the adoption process, open adoption, biracial adoption, adopting a special needs child, cultural attitudes, and how to handle an adopted child’s questions in later years. It also addresses specific adoption issues, including: how to verify an agency’s credentials; how an agency negotiates with the birth mother; state and country laws and practices; tax benefits; and expenses, including legal and medical costs; and includes research findings on the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) Welcome Home! tells the stories of: Naomi and Fred, an intermarried couple (she’s Jewish, he’s not) who adopted a Greek baby in 1962 “Tina” and “Lee,” a lesbian couple, who adopted a baby from China Marianne, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Lund in Sweden, who adopted babies from Iran and Thailand—several years after her divorce Pamela, a divorced mother of four biological children who has adopted babies from Viet Nam and China All of her biological children Mildred—Pamela’s mother and the children’s grandmother Karen, adoptive mother and national chairperson for Families for Russian and Ukrainian adoption (FRUA) William, adoptive father of miracle sisters from Romania and many more! Welcome Home! is an invaluable source of unusual insight for psychologists, psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists, adoption agencies, counselors, social workers, attorneys, physicians, academics, and, of course, anyone considering adoption.