Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate Relationships When New Kids Join the Family

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 gru 2011 - 535
When experienced parents decide to adopt an older child or a sibling group, they jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops. This book offers insights, examples and tools for helping newly configured families prepare, accept, react, and mobilize to become a new and different family, meeting the physical and emotional needs of all its members.
 

Spis treści

Myth or Actuality?
14
The Childs Past is Important
46
Are We a Family for a Child?
86
Dads in Adoption
127
Matching is not an Exact Science
162
Through the Eyes of the Child
210
Displacement Disruption and Dissolution
273
The Family Becomes Immobilized
293
Becoming a New and Different FamilyPart I
344
Becoming a New and Different FamilyPart II
408
Turning 18 and Beyond
468
Acknowledgments
480
Appendices
483
Resources
514
Index
522
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Arleta James, LPCC is Founder and Director of Adoption & Attachment Therapy Partners LLC. She has been an adoption professional for 20 years. She spent 15 years providing adoption-attachment-trauma informed therapies at the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio and several years as a caseworker for the Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption Network placing foster children with adoptive families. She then served as the statewide Matching Specialist. Arleta is a member of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research, Ohio Counseling Association and the North American Council on Adoptable Children.

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