The Adopted Child

Author : Patty Cogen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781458768834

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Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogen Pdf

Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child guides adoptive parents in promoting a child's emotional and social adjustment, from the family's first hours together through the teen years. It explains how to help an adopted child cope with the ''Big Change,'' bond with new parents, become part of a family, and develop a positive self-image that incorporates both American identity and ethnicity origins. Parents waiting to meet their adoptive children will appreciate Cogen's advice about preparing for the trip and handling the first meeting. The author's main focus, though, is the child's adaptation over the next months and years. Cogen explains how to deal with the child's ''mixed maturities''; how (and why) to tell the child's story from the child's point of view; how to handle sleep problems and resistance to household rules; and how to encourage eye contact and ease transitions and separations. The reassuring narrative tone and the breadth and depth of information make this the most substantive and accessible book available and an indispensable resource for parents who adopt, professionals who advise adoptive parents, and teachers of adoptive children

Author : Holly Van Gulden,Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0824513681

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Real Parents, Real Children by Holly Van Gulden,Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb Pdf

A leading authority on adoption and an award-winning writer bring wisdom and clarity to situations important to all adoptive parents. Real Parents, Real Children goes beyond the question of when to tell children they are adopted with practical advice for parents on how to talk with their children about adoption - not just once but throughout childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood - and how to help them through the rougher points of growing up adopted. Authors Holly van Gulden and Lisa Bartels-Rabb offer insight into how adopted children at each age commonly think and feel about being adopted. They also explain how and why adopted children grieve for their birth parents and suggest ways adoptive parents can help them come to a healthy resolution of this grief. For prospective parents, the authors discuss ways to prepare themselves and the child they are about to adopt for the new family union. Throughout, the special concerns and challenges of interracial, international, and older-child adoptions are also addressed. Though written with parents in mind, Real Parents, Real Children provides the clinical information that professional therapists, counselors, and placement workers must have if they are to truly be of help to adoptive families at every stage of their lives. Real Parents, Real Children fills a real gap in adoption literature and offers confidence and assurance as well as sought-after answers to lifelong question.

Author : Brenda McCreight
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1572242841

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Parenting Your Adopted Older Child by Brenda McCreight Pdf

This comprehensive guide provides specific parenting strategies for the growing number of people who adopt children over two years old. Parents learn to identify their child's needs, meet such challenges as aggressive behavior and attention deficit disorder, and create a sense of belonging.

Author : Joy Rees
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781843109532

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Life Story Books for Adopted Children by Joy Rees Pdf

This concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' improved model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child's sense of security within the adoptive family.

Author : Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher : Delta
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307570819

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Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge Pdf

"Birthdays may be difficult for me." "I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family." "When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me." "I am afraid you will abandon me." The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents. Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child--and within the adoptive home.

Author : Nancy Newton Verrier
Publisher : Verrier Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 0963648012

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Coming Home to Self by Nancy Newton Verrier Pdf

This book explains the role of separation trauma in the life of adoptees and birth mothers and how that trauma affects the neurological system. It demonstrates how the inner, fearful child may be running the lives of adoptees. It shows how the meaning we give to events determines our beliefs and how those beliefs control our feelings, attitudes and behavior. It gives guidelines for discovering the authentic self and for becoming accountable for our impact on others.

Author : Dr. Kevin Leman,Kevin II Leman
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781441207203

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My Adopted Child, There's No One Like You by Dr. Kevin Leman,Kevin II Leman Pdf

Every child is special. And every child deserves to be recognized for what makes him or her unique. Now birth order guru, Dr. Kevin Leman, and his artist son, Kevin Leman II, offer parents the perfect way to tell their adopted child just how wonderful he or she is. A read-to-me children's picture book, My Adopted Child, There's No One Like You conveys love, acceptance, and a sense of individuality to adopted children. The combination of Dr. Kevin Leman's trademark humor and his talented son's artwork makes this book a wonderful gift.

Author : Valentina Pavlovna Wasson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : LCCN:50001279

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The Chosen Baby by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson Pdf

How Peter and Mary are adopted into a home where they are wanted and loved. Grades 1-3.

Author : Bacchetta Sally Bacchetta,Sally Bacchetta
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440194368

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What I Want My Adopted Child to Know by Bacchetta Sally Bacchetta,Sally Bacchetta Pdf

What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent's Perspective is a tender, revealing look at adoption from the parent perspective. Whether you are an adoptive parent, an adoptee, someone considering adoption, or simply curious about adoption dynamics, What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent's Perspective will touch your heart and increase your sensitivity to the challenges and joys that are unique to adoptive parenting. Bacchetta wrote the book in response to a need common among adoptive families. Adoptive families navigate emotional terrain that fully-biological families don't have to. This is a book adoptive parents can give to their child and say, I know adoption is painful, unsettling, joyous, and affirming. It's that way for me too. More than anything, adoption is the way we came together, and I'll always be grateful for that.' Bacchetta's words echo with the collective voice of over 100 adoptive parents interviewed for this book. With chapters like I Would Do it All Again , You Are Not Different Because You Were Adopted, and I Regret What I Can't Give You, What I Want My Adopted Child to Know is by turns affirming, challenging, thoughtful, wistful, and poignant.

Author : Elaine E. Schulte, , MPH, FAAP,Robin Michaelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1610022157

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Caring for Your Adopted Child by Elaine E. Schulte, , MPH, FAAP,Robin Michaelson Pdf

With knowledge and compassion, Caring for Your Adopted Child offers the wisdom that adoptive parents need to provide the best possible care for their children. Whether a child joins a family through domestic adoption, international adoption, or foster care, he or she may have needs that require additional consideration. The coauthors, both adoptive parents, weave professional and personal experiences with essential information on: - Partnering with a pediatrician before adoption - Helping a child transition into a family - Understanding health issues and conditions that are more prevalent in children who are adopted - Supporting a child's emotional health and attachment - And promoting positive adoption conversation as a child matures This comprehensive resource offers trusted parenting advice from a leading adoption medicine expert and the American Academy of Pediatrics, focusing on the physical and emotional well-being of adopted children.

Author : Mary Watkins,Susan Fisher,Susan M. Fisher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0300063172

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Talking with Young Children about Adoption by Mary Watkins,Susan Fisher,Susan M. Fisher Pdf

Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.

Author : David M. Brodzinsky,Marshall D. Schecter,Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780385414265

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Being Adopted by David M. Brodzinsky,Marshall D. Schecter,Robin Marantz Henig Pdf

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.

Author : Ann Angel
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780857007407

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Adopted Like Me by Ann Angel Pdf

Hi - I'm Max, and I'm adopted. You may not know this but many famous and inspirational people were adopted too. Adopted Like Me introduces you to great musicians like Bo Diddley, politicians like Nelson Mandela, and stars like Marilyn Monroe. Meet these along with inventors, athletes, and a princess skilled in judo and fencing - all of them adopted like me. Read about these adoptees and you'll see that you can grow up to be just about anything you want to be! Fully illustrated in color, this book is for children aged 8+ who have been adopted, their parents, teachers and siblings.

Author : Betsy Keefer Smalley,Jayne E. Schooler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9798216154334

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Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child by Betsy Keefer Smalley,Jayne E. Schooler Pdf

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts. This book provides parents and professionals with sound advice on how to communicate effectively about difficult and sensitive topics, providing concrete strategies for helping adopted and foster children make sense of the past so they can enjoy a healthy, well-adjusted future. Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating issues of adopted children are feelings of rejection, abandonment, or confusion about their origins. While many foster and adoptive parents and even many professionals are reluctant to communicate openly about birth histories, silence only adds to the child's confusion and pain. This revised and significantly expanded edition of the award-winning Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child equips parents with the knowledge and tools they need to communicate with their adopted or foster child about their past. Revisions include coverage of significant new research and information regarding the importance of understanding the child's trauma history to his or her well-being and successful adjustment in his foster or adoptive family. The authors answer such questions as: How do I share difficult information about my child's adoption in a sensitive manner? When is the right time to tell my child the whole truth? How do I obtain more information on my child's history? Detailed descriptions of actual cases help the parent or caregiver find ways to discover the truth (particularly in closed and international adoption cases), organize the information, and explain the details of the past gently to a toddler, child, or young adult who may find it frightening or confusing.

Author : Beth O'Malley
Publisher : Adoption-Works
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 0970183275

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Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child by Beth O'Malley Pdf