Jayne E. Schooler

Thomas Atwood

Thomas C. Atwood

Discusses the physical and emotional planning for adoption for parents, adopted children, and birthchildren, and describes the common issues that accompany adoption.

Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family

The Whole Life Adoption Book

Betsy Keefer Smalley

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts. This book provides parents and professionals with sound advice on how to communicate effectively about difficult and sensitive topics, providing concrete strategies for helping adopted and foster children make sense of the past so they can enjoy a healthy, well-adjusted future. * Presents age-appropriate, specific guidelines that make an intimidating and potentially uncomfortable task straightforward, organized, and manageable * Serves to remove the fear of how to make sense of the past for foster and adopted children of all ages, allowing parents, teachers, counselors, and other caregivers to have open, honest, and beneficial dialogues with children and teens with tough pasts * Explains how children's development is impacted by separation from their birth families and identifies the issues generated by the trauma occurring before, during, and after the separation * Reveals powerful insights gained from the story of one of the first African American children to be adopted in the United States by a white family—an individual who is now middle-aged

Making Sense of the Past

Telling the Truth to Your Adopted Or Foster Child

Betsie Norris

What can we learn about the experience of adoption from those who have taken that journey? How can those touched by adoption navigate successfully through the issues of search, reunion, and aftermath? Will those answers have a positive impact on adoption today? Drawing upon the experiences of dozens of triad members--adopted persons, birth parents, and adoptive parents--the authors offer insight into the concerns, issues, joys, and pain experienced by those who lives are framed by adoption. The book explores such questions as: -How do I make the decision to search for my parents? -How do I prepare emotionally? -What are my adoptive parents feeling and thinking? -What if I am rejected, encounter death, or reach a dead end? -How do I develop a relationship with siblings I've never known? The authors deal sensitively with these and many other issues. Attention is also given to the needs and concerns of adoptive parents as their children grow into adults. Practical advice helps prepare triad members to deal emotionally and psychologically with the process of search and reunion.

Understanding Lifelong Issues

Journeys After Adoption

The Adopted Adult's Unique Process of Finding Identity

Searching for a Past

Jayne E. Schooler

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