Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids - A Guide for Parents and ProfessionalsWithout 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. |
Contents
The Cycle of Bonding | |
The Toll of Impermanence | |
Putting Together a Family | |
Dreams and realities | |
Intercountry Adoptions | |
Getting Used to Each Other | |
Siblings | |
Giving Your Child a History | |
Treatment for the Hurt Child | |
When Adoption Fails | |
Success Stories | |
Notes | |
Other editions - View all
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-needs Kids : a Guide ... Gregory C. Keck,Regina M. Kupecky No preview available - 1998 |
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-needs Kids Gregory C. Keck,Regina M. Kupecky No preview available - 2009 |
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