Recommended Reading on Post Adoption Related Issues
- Adopting the Older Child
- Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
- Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens
- Black Children-White Parents: A Study of Transracial Adoption
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- Damaged Angels
- The Explosive Child
- Finding Fish
- The Jonathan Letters: One Family’s Use of Support as They Took in, and Fell in Love with a Troubled Child
- Nurturing Adoptions
- The Open Adoption Book
- Parenting with Love and Logic
- Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
- Toddler Adoption, The Weavers Craft
- Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
- Twenty Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
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Adopting the Older Child
Claudia L. Jewett
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Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
Book by David Brodzinsky
Recent studies have shown that being adopted can affect many aspects of adoptees' lives, from relationships with adoptive parents to bonds with their own children. Using their combined total of 55 years experience in clinical and research work with adoptees and their families, the authors use the voices of adoptees themselves to trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime. -
Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens
Debbie Riley, M.S., with John Meeks, M.D.
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Black Children-White Parents: A Study of Transracial Adoption
Book by Tonya Moore
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz
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Damaged Angels
Bonnie Buxton
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The Explosive Child
Ross Greene
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Finding Fish
Antwone Fisher, Mim Rivas
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The Jonathan Letters: One Family’s Use of Support as They Took in, and Fell in Love with a Troubled Child
Michael Trout and Lori Thomas
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Nurturing Adoptions
Deborah Grey
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The Open Adoption Book
Bruce Rappaport
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Parenting with Love and Logic
Foster Cline and Jim Fay
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Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
Book by Betsy Keefer
Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating issues of adopted children are feelings of rejection, abandonment, or confusion about their origins. While many foster and adoptive parents and even many professionals are reluctant to communicate openly about birth histories, silence only adds to the child's confusion and pain. -
Toddler Adoption, The Weavers Craft
Mary Hopkins-Best
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Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Book by Sherrie Eldridge
With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents.
Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, -
Twenty Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
Sherrie Eldridge