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Adolescents and Their Families: An Introduction to Assessment and Intervention
by Terry S Trepper Mark WordenThis comprehensive book introduces and integrates adolescent developmental themes and family system theory into a coherent assessment and intervention model. Author Mark Worden views the adolescent as active in shaping the family interactions as much as the family is influential in shaping the adolescent’s behavior. He takes a pragmatic approach to therapy, emphasizing what best explains the clinical phenomena and what works best for change. To this end, a heavy emphasis is placed on the process of evaluation and intervention of adolescents and their families with typical therapeutic dilemmas. This practical book is organized to take the reader through the first evaluation interview, through the planning of intervention strategies, and through the beginning, middle, and termination phases of treatment. Case examples bring Adolescents and Their Families to life, highlighting conceptual discussions. Topics discussed in this important book range from the integration of adolescent and family psychology, to the employment of a contextual-dialectic (“goodness-of-fit”) paradigm to evaluate adolescent-family interface, to matching the intervention with the family. A step-by-step discussion of the first interview and diverse intervention strategies are discussed, as are frequent clinical syndromes--acting-out, underachievement, eating disorders, divorce/single parenthood, depression, and suicide. Graduate students and clinicians will find this appealing book an ideal resource, as will experienced therapists beginning to work with adolescents and families. The book will also serve as an excellent primary or ancillary text for graduate courses in psychotherapy with adolescents and in family therapy courses. High school guidance counselors, social workers, and psychologists will also find many valuable applications in this timely book.
Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
by Sicile-Kira ChantalFrom the award-winning author of Autism Spectrum Disorders, comes Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum, a complete guide to the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical needs of preteens and teenagers with autistic disorders, ranging from the relatively mild Asperger's Syndrome to more severe ability impairment. Using clear examples, practical advice, and supportive insights, this book covers: Health risks such as seizures and depression Treatments, therapies, and teaching strategies Teaching skills to cope with puberty, self-care, and social skills Teenage emotions, sexuality, appropriate relationships, and dating Middle school, high school, and developing an Individual Educational Program Preparing for life after high school .
Adolesienten: Herramientas para conocer, comprender y encontrarnos con el fascinante mundo adolescente
by Juan Pablo CibilsEn Adolesienten podremos encontrar pistas sobre cómo trabajar con los jóvenes la vocación, la relación con sus amigos, la autoridad, los límites y la relación con los padres Adolesienten. Herramientas para conocer, comprender y encontrarnos con el fascinante mundo adolescente no es un libro de recetas. Es un conjunto de herramientas para que madres, padres, educadores y el propio adolescente identifiquen los desafíos de esta etapa fundamental en el desarrollo vital de las personas. Estas páginas acompañan ese momento clave en que el adolescente va abandonando su rol de niño, se descubre como alguien diferente, comienza a tomar conciencia de quién es y quién quiere ser, se cuestiona la relación con sus padres y con el mundo adulto en general. Es entonces que se evidencian los riesgos de crecer, las dinámicas con los pares, el acercamiento a un mundo nuevo con sus beneficios y peligros. Surge la articulación de deseos y necesidades desde lo digital, la construcción de la vocación y el caer en la cuenta de que para convertirse en adulto se deberá pasar previamente por esta etapa transformadora. El psicólogo Juan Pablo Cibils nos propone un libro cercano, amable, donde desde su visión profesional nos ayuda a vencer el miedo y la incertidumbre que tantas veces sentimos frente a un adolescente que nos desconcierta, para intentar descubrir y comprender el valor decisivo y creador de esta etapa. Conectando con aquello que adolecen y atendiendo a lo que realmente sienten, podrán encontrarse consigo mismos y con nosotros. Es necesario asumir el desafío de transitar saludablemente por la adolescencia para crecer felices. Adolesienten. Llegó el momento de escucharlos.
Adopción siglo 21: Leyes y deseos
by Eva GibertiEva Giberti arroja luz sobre los aspectos más delicados de la adopción.Introduce, por primera vez, el problema de los países proveedores deniños y los países receptores, así como el tema de las «guardaspuestas», el tráfico con menores y la discriminación. Eva Giberti es el mayor referente latinoamericano en el tema de laadopción. Desde hace décadas viene allanando este camino. La adopción esun acto de amor y también tiene un lado que puede ser difícil deabordar. El transcurso del tiempo nos desafía con nuevas alternativas.Los cambios en los estilos de vida, la madurez de las preguntas de losniños y su temprana curiosidad acerca de su origen reclaman respuestas ydiálogos no previstos para los que muchas veces padres o profesionalesno están preparados. Tampoco se otorga suficiente importancia a ladiscriminación encubierta que suelen padecer los adoptivos y que espreciso desactivar.La figura de la madre de origen ocupa un lugar significativo parareconocerla y nombrarla como quien eligió desvincularse del hijo o fueobligada a hacerlo. Aparecen entonces temas tabú. Los niños reciénadoptados son un sueño hecho realidad, pero también crecen y tienederecho a saber. Durante la adolescencia este saber se complejiza. Laautora se detiene en la historia de personas que no lograron asimilar elpasado de sus hijos adoptivos.El compromiso y la mirada crítica y profunda de la autora constituyen unaporte fundamental al debate de la adopción en la Argentina.
ADOPCION SIGLO XXI (EBOOK)
by Eva GibertiEva Giberti es el mayor referente latinoamericano en el tema de la adopción. Desde hace décadas viene allanando este camino. La adopción es un acto de amor y también tiene un lado que puede ser difícil de abordar. El transcurso del tiempo nos desafía con nuevas alternativas. Los cambios en los estilos de vida, la madurez de las preguntas de los niños y su temprana curiosidad acerca de su origen reclaman respuestas y diálogos no previstos para los que muchas veces padres o profesionales no están preparados. Tampoco se otorga suficiente importancia a la discriminación encubierta que suelen padecer los adoptivos y que es preciso desactivar. La figura de la madre de origen ocupa un lugar significativo para reconocerla y nombrarla como quien eligió desvincularse del hijo o fue obligada a hacerlo. Aparecen entonces temas tabú. Los niños recién adoptados son un sueño hecho realidad, pero también crecen y tiene derecho a saber. Durante la adolescencia este saber se complejiza. La autora se detiene en la historia de personas que no lograron asimilar el pasado de sus hijos adoptivos. En este nuevo libro Eva Giberti arroja luz sobre los aspectos más delicados de la adopción. Introduce, por primera vez, el problema de los países proveedores de niños y los países receptores, así como el tema de las #guardas puestas# y el tráfico con menores. Adopción siglo XXI es, por todo ello, un libro necesario, y el compromiso y la mirada crítica y profunda de su autora constituyen un aporte fundamental en la Argentina de hoy.
Adopted Jane
by Helen F. DaringerA young orphan girl experiences life outside the orphanage for the first time when she is invited to live with two different families one summer. Jane’s heart almost stopped beating. Was it possible that she, Jane Douglas, who never before had been invited for a summer outing, now had two chances? She gripped the edge of the chair to hold herself still. Jane Douglas has lived at the James Ballard Memorial Home for orphans for most of her childhood. Reliable and sensible, she has watched other children find families of their own, but never once has any family wanted to adopt Jane. Then one magical summer, Jane gets not one --but two --invitations for a month each to live with a real family in a real house. If only the summer could last forever... Pictures are described. Ages 8-12
Adopted Like Me: My Book of Adopted Heroes
by Marc Thomas Ann AngelHi - 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.
Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging
by Eleana J. KimSince the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea’s “economic miracle,” adoption became an institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global flows of communication, media, and travel, they have come into increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South Korean state. Since the 1990s, as Korean children have continued to leave to be adopted in the West, a growing number of adult adoptees have been returning to Korea to seek their cultural and biological origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers, adoptee activists, scholars, and journalists in the U. S. , Europe, and South Korea, as well as on observations at international adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings, and government-sponsored motherland tours.
The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing: How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Long-Lost Family
by Tamar WeinbergReconnect with your roots! Adoptees, foundlings, and others with unknown parentage face unique challenges in researching their ancestors. Enter this book: a comprehensive guide to adoption genealogy that has the resources you need to find your family through genetic testing. Inside, you'll find:Strategies for connecting your genealogy to previous genealogistsDetailed guides for using DNA tests and tools, plus how to analyze your test results and apply them to researchReal-life success stories that put the book's techniques into practice and inspire you to seek your own discoveries
Adopting: Real Life Stories
by Hugh Thornbery Ann Morris"Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other." With more than 70 real life stories, revealing moments of vulnerability and moments of joy, this book provides an authentic insight into adoption. These stories take the reader on a journey through every stage of the adoption process, from making the initial decision to adopt to hearing from adoptees, and offer an informative and emotive account of the reality of families' experiences along the way. It includes chapters on adopting children of all ages as well as sibling groups; adopting as a single parent; adopting as a same sex couple; adopting emotionally and physically abused children; the nightmare of adoption breaking down; contact with birth parents; tracing and social media and more. Adopting: Real Life Stories will be an informative and refreshing read for adopters, potential adopters, professionals and all those whose lives have in some way been touched by adoption or want to know more about it.
Adopting After Infertility
by Rachel Balen Marilyn CrawshawAround three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility. Adopting after Infertility is an accessible and informative interdisciplinary book that addresses the issues that professionals working with adopters and the adopters themselves face when going through the adoption process and the impact of infertility on their experiences. The book includes chapters on the effects of infertility, why people may choose adoption and the assessment and preparation process. It also covers what an Adoption Panel needs to know about the prospective parents, the experiences of those coming to adoption from minority communities or when living with health conditions and post-adoption support needs. Personal accounts by people who have experienced adopting after infertility are included throughout the book. This book will be essential reading for professionals and academics from a range of disciplines including social work, psychology, health, mental health and counselling. It will also be invaluable to students studying for post-qualifying awards.
Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia
by Robert KloseAlthough single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture. However, Robert Klose, who is single, wanted a son so badly that he faced down the opposition and overcame seemingly insurmountable barriers to realize his goal. The story of his quest for a son is detailed in this intimate personal account. The frustrating truth he reports is that most adoption agencies seem unsure of how to respond to a single man's application. During the three years that it took for him to proceed through the adoption maze, Klose met resistance and dead ends at every attempt. Happenstance finally led him to Russia, where he found the child of his dreams in a Moscow orphanage, a Russian boy named Alyosha. This is the first book to be written by a single man adopting from abroad. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional firsthand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he untangles bureaucratic snarls and addresses cultural differences involved in adopting a foreign child. When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. Although he meets kind and generous Russians, his encounter with the child welfare system in Moscow turns out to be both chaotic and bizarre. However, his dogged ordeal pays off more bountifully than he ever could have hoped. In the end he comes face to face with a little boy who changes his life forever.
Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption
by Soojin ChungExplores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of them. In an iconic photo taken in 1955, Harry and Bertha Holt can be seen descending from a Pan American World Airways airplane with twelve Asian babies—eight for their family and four for other families. As adoptive parents and evangelical Christians who identified themselves as missionaries, the Holts unwittingly became both the metaphorical and literal parental figures in the growing movement to adopt transnationally. Missionaries pioneered the transnational adoption movement in America. Though their role is known, there has not yet been a full historical look at their theological motivations—which varied depending on whether they were evangelically or ecumenically focused—and what the effects were for American society, relations with Asia, and thinking about race more broadly. Adopting for God shows that, somewhat surprisingly, both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters. By questioning the perspective that equates missionary humanitarianism with unmitigated cultural imperialism, this book offers a more nuanced picture of the rise of an important twentieth-century movement: the evangelization of adoption and the awakening of a new type of Christian mission.
Adopting Hope: Stories and Real Life Advice from Birthparents, Adoptive Parents, and Adoptees
by Lorri Antosz BensonAll My Children actress Jill Larson moved mountains as a single mother to adopt her daughter from China. George Fadok, a former Navy commander, grappled with “changing the rules” eighteen years after placing his daughter in a closed adoption. Angela Paxton, Texas state senator and an adoptee, never thought she would ever meet her birthmom, but when she did, it changed her life. Embarking on an adoption journey can be daunting, but now you are not alone! This collection of true, beautiful accounts, including Larson’s, Fadok’s, and Paxton’s, takes an honest look at the process, the struggles, and the undeniable joy that comes with adoption. With insights from all three adoption triad viewpoints, Adopting Hope shares a wealth of lessons learned and tips for every person contemplating an adoption journey. How to have the courage to adoptHow to decide on an open vs. a closed adoptionHow to handle a foreign adoptionHow to survive the agonizing wait to become parentsHow to tell your adopted child “the story”How to make your adopted child feel lovedHow to negotiate a relationship with your child’s birth parentsHow to help your child work through feelings of loneliness or rejectionHow to dispel negative attitudes you will encounter about adoptionAnd so much more, including suggestions from birthparents and adoptees! From Lorri Antosz Benson, author of To Have and Not to Hold, this heartfelt compilation is ultimately a message of hope, love, and destiny as each family discovers the truth that a child doesn't need to be blood to be truly yours.
Adopting Older Children
by Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero Gloria Russo Wassell Victor GrozaAre 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. This will help prospective parents be aware of concerns that can arise for their adopted children and help current parents deal with the difficulties their children may be facing. An older adopted child may face a list of problems, included is a comprehensive overview of clinical and other problems that may arise and how to successfully deal with them. Authors Bosco-Ruggiero, Wassel and child welfare expert Groza deliver a comprehensive guide to navigating the adoption processes domestically and internationally, coping with transition and family dynamics and to educating others about adoption. Adopting Older Children not only focuses on preparing the family unit but offers chapters to better understand the personality, background and problems of your adopted child. It provides methodology to comprehend and cope with the traumatized child, grief and loss, attachment issues, development and learning, mental health concerns, physical health (fetal alcohol syndrome, abuse, etc.) as well as providing critical resource information for adoptive parents (single, LBGT or older adoptive parents).Practical and extensive, Adopting Older Children furnishes key parenting strategies and insights in a clear, sensitive style, becoming the definitive resource for adoptive parents and professionals.
Adopting the Hurt Child: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
by Gregory C. Keck Regina M. Kupecky"Fewer and fewer families adopting today are able to bring home a healthy newborn infant. The majority of adoptions now involve emotionally wounded, older children who have suffered the effects of abuse or neglect in their birth families and carry complex baggage with them into their adoptive families. Adopting the Hurt Child addresses the frustrations, heartache, and hope surrounding the adoptions of these special-needs kids. Children who have endured emotional and physical atrocities, failed reunifications, and myriad losses associated with multiple moves in the foster care system not only present unique challenges to their adoptive families but also impact greater society in significant ways. Integrating social, psychological, and sociopolitical issues, Adopting the Hurt Child explains how trauma and interruptions affect these children's normal development and often severely undermine their capacity to function in a loving family and in society. Written in a non-technical style accessible to a diverse audience, Adopting the Hurt Child brings to light grim truths, but also real hope that children who have been hurt-and often hurt others-can be healed and brought back into life by the adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and others whose lives intersect with theirs." -- from the book jacket
Adopting the Older Child
by Claudia Jewett JarrettHundreds of thousands of children in this country are without permanent homes right now, waiting in foster homes and institutions for families who could adopt them. Here, in "a book that workers and parents have been waiting for" (Child Welfare), nationally known family counselor and adoptive parent Claudia Jewett explains just what is in store for those who decide to open their hearts to a waiting child. "One of the truly fine books in its genre, rich with insights and practical counsel." (Publishers Weekly)
Adoption: A Brief Social and Cultural History
by Peter ConnCombining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience.
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times
by Anthony Douglas Terry PhilpotAdoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers. Chapters on research and policy are interspersed with those from people with first-hand experience of being adopted, becoming an adoptive parent or giving a child up for adoption. Together, they provide unique insights into a subject that although regularly in the media is often surrounded by prejudice and misconception. Topics covered include:* children and young people in care* trying to adopt* waiting for adoption* life after adoption* the politics of adoption.This accessible text offers a comprehensive view of adoption policy, practice and services and analyses why adoption has become so controversial. It provides professional and general reader alike with a fully rounded picture of adoption and exposes some of the myths surrounding it.
Adoption
by Jaymie Stuart WolfeSometimes, rather than giving you a child, God leads you to one. With encouragement and wisdom born of personal experience, columnist and mother of eight Jaymie Stuart Wolfe offers families indispensable guidance as they navigate the adoption journey. From the first steps in the adoption process to parenting an adoptive child, readers will find here important spiritual and practical help. If you are wondering if God is calling you to adopt a child, this is the book for you.
Adoption and Law: The Unique Personal Experiences of Birth Mothers in Adoption Proceedings
by Lisamarie DeblasioUsing a socio-legal framework, this book explores the experiences that birth mothers face in state sanctioned adoption proceedings in the UK. Featuring personal, in-depth interviews and conversations with 32 birth mothers, the book highlights perspectives and voices that are seldom the focus in leading discourses of professional practice in this area of law. The book also demands that the statutory rights, support and care of birth mothers are recognised and strengthened.This book delivers a comprehensive insight into many aspects and controversies of legal child adoption, including the development and reform of adoption law over history, giving the reader insight into the deep-rooted political and social tensions around the use of adoption. The uniqueness of birth mothers’ subjective stories of adoption contrasts powerfully with the legal theory providing the reader with an intimate paradigm of adoption.The book includes discussion of obiter dicta and authoritative guidance on adoption practice from the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal in Re B (A Child) (Care Proceedings: Appeal) [2013] UKSC 33 and Re B-S (Children) (Adoption: Leave to Oppose) [2013] EWCA Civ 1146. It also considers Court of Appeal’s recent ruling on post adoption contact in Re B (A Child) (Post-Adoption Contact) [2019] EWCA Civ 29, the first case to come before the court since section 9 of the Children and Families Act 2014 amended the Adoption and Children Act 2002, with the new insertion of section 51A and 51B providing for court ordered post adoption contact. This book is ideally suited to undergraduate students, as well as a more multi- disciplinary audience.
Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific
by Jenny H Wills Tobias Hubinette Indigo WillingAdoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
Adoption at the Movies: A Year of Adoption-Friendly Movie Nights to Get Your Family Talking
by Rita L. Soronen Addison CooperGet your family talking about adoption with the ultimate collection of films to help the whole family to explore their feelings in a fun and safe way. With a film for each week of the year, Addison Cooper has compiled the best movies, new and old, for family-friendly viewing. Among those featured are Finding Dory, Frozen, Paddington, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kung Fu Panda, Star Wars, Divergent, The Blind Side and I am Sam. Carefully selected, the movies included will help families to comfortably talk about important adoption-related topics. They are accompanied by descriptions of the themes and ideas to get the conversations started. Helping all members of the family to explore both the pain and joy of adoption, they cover a range of issues which can arise such as culture, identity, control, and reunification. With something for everyone - from kids, to teens, to grown-ups - this is a must-have for all adoptive families.
Adoption Deception: A Personal and Professional Journey
by Penny MackiesonHave you ever wondered how it might feel to have been adopted in Australia during the pre-1980s era in which vulnerable young mothers were coerced into relinquishing their babies? How it might feel to have grown up, become a social worker and worked with vulnerable children and families? This book provides answers to those difficult questions. Adoption Deception presents the personal and professional reflections of Penny Mackieson, an Australian adoptee and social worker, on issues associated with adoption - many of which are shared with donor conception and surrogacy. For anyone with an experience of or interest in adoption, whether personal or professional, who is open to perspectives other than those selectively portrayed by populist mainstream media, this book will provide invaluable insights.
The Adoption Experience
by Ann MorrisThis is a book of real life stories of adopters which takes the reader through every stage of the adoption process starting with the moment when they decide that adoption is the right option for them to the stories of adoptees brought up by adoptive parents. In between, the book looks at all the different types of adoption that are carried out by all sorts of families from all sorts of children of every race and age and with every kind of problem. They range from babies who are only days old when they are taken into an adoptive family to teenagers with a multitude of psychological and physical problems. The book looks at both the success and failure of these adoptions. Its aim is to inform and enlighten professionals, adopters, potential adopters and all those whose lives have in some way been touched by adoption or want to know more about it. In 15 chapters it includes more than 70 real life stories which are all told from the heart sometimes in a moment of crisis and sometimes at a time of joy. They are not analysed, they are true stories about how it feels to be at the centre of adoption. All the stories, which have been recounted over the past 10 years, are reflective of adoption today in Britain. The book also includes a chapter on the legal aspects of adoption and a further chapter of useful information and addresses.