Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families [Hardcover]

This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

This book is comprehensive in its presentation of background material, thorough and fair in its review of other studies, and full of useful information and effective case examples. . . . Everyone concerned about the future well-being of adoptive familiespractitioners, researchers, policymakers, and adoptive parentswill find the book invaluable.  

Special Needs Don't Disappear with Adoption
The Case for Post-Adoption Services
Every Clinician Is in Post-Adoption Practice
We Never Thought It Would Be Like This
Presenting Problems of Troubled Adoptive Families
They Cry Out in Many Different Ways
Behavior Problems of Special Needs Children
Adoption Means Somebody Loves You and Somebody Doesn't
Separation, Grief and Attachment Issues in Work With Families
Invisible Wounds
Trauma and Its Wake
I Just Want to Know More about Who I Am
Identity Issues
A Place to Turn When There's No Place Else to Go
An Overview of Adoption Preservation Services
No Longer All Alone in the Twilight Zone
Support Groups for Children and Parents
Parenting Developmentally Disabled Children
Toward a Better Future
Partnerships to Strengthen Adoptive Families