Book Description
The practical classic on adopting an older child.
Author : Claudia Jarrett
Publisher : Harvard Common Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1978-09-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1558326251
The practical classic on adopting an older child.
Author : Brenda McCreight
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781572242845
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 : Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780882824826
Are you thinking of adopting an older child? There are 200,000 plus hoping for families in the U.S. alone and more worldwide. Adopting an older child, though, presents a unique set of parenting issues as well as rewards. Adopting Older Children highlights the most significant challenges when parenting older adoptees who face mental health, behavioral and educational issues. Included is critical information about developmental issues that may arise for the adoptee, issues related to the adoptee's emerging sense of self, sexual orientation and cultural identity and other special needs that an adoptee may have.--Page 4 of cover
Author : Gregory Keck
Publisher : Tyndale House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 161521447X
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 : Deborah D. Gray
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1849058903
This classic text is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. It explains what attachment is and provides parenting techniques matched to children's emotional needs and stages to enhance children's happiness and emotional health.
Author : Karen J. Foli
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2004-08-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1609616103
Over 150,000 people adopt children each year, and more than 2 million parents are now raising adopted children and grandchildren. While the path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment, it's not without its bumps. This compassionate, illuminating, and ultimately uplifting book is the first to openly recognize the very normal feelings of stress that adoptive families encounter as they cope with the challenges and expectations of their new families. Where do parents turn when the waited-for bonding with their adopted child is slow to form? When they find themselves grieving over the birth child they couldn't have? When the child they so eagerly welcomed into their home arrives with major, unexpected needs? Until now, adoptive parents have had to struggle silently with their feelings, which can range from flutters of anxiety to unbearable sadness. At last, Karen J. Foli, a registered nurse, and her husband, John R. Thompson, a psychiatrist, lift the curtain of secrecy from "Post Adoption Depression Syndrome" (PADS). Drawing on their own experience as adoptive parents as well as interviews with dozens of adoptive families and experts in the field, the couple offers parents the understanding, support, and concrete solutions they need to overcome post-adoption blues-and open their hearts to the joy adoption can bring.
Author : Trish Maskew
Publisher :
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780966970159
Based on personal experiences, research, and interviews, the author presents "practical tips, advice, and real-life stories for anyone who is adopting, or hopes to adopt, an older child."--Cover.
Author : Mary Hopkins-Best
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1849058946
This book offers support and practical tools to help parents prepare for and support the toddler's transition between the familiar environment of their biological parent's home or foster home to a new and unfamiliar one, and considers the issues that arise at different developmental stages.
Author : Arleta James
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857006436
What about the kids already there? How do they do when a child with a challenging past joins a family by adoption? When experienced parents decide to adopt an older child or a sibling group, they jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops â?? 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 â??adjustâ?? to the addition of another sibling. The addition of a child with a history of neglect or trauma cannot be a seamless transition. The expectations of everyone involved â?? parents, new siblings, and, yes, professionals facilitating the adoption â?? must be realistic, taking into account that the new child will need special attention 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 in 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!
Author : Claudia Jarrett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1978-09-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0916782093
Pros, cons, and how-to's for an increasingly popular option.