A Child's Journey Through Placement

A Child's Journey Through Placement
Vera I. Fahlberg (Author)
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The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole
Lori Holden (Author), Crystal Hass (Contributor)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Prior to 1990, fewer than 5% of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, 90% or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them! The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.

There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isn't just something parents do when they exchange photos, send emails, share a visit. It's a lifestyle that may feel intrusive at times, be difficult or inconvenient at other times. Tensions can arise even in the best of circumstances. But knowing how to handle these situations and how to continue to make arrangements work for the child involved is paramount. This book offers readers the tools and the insight to do just that. It covers common open-adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.

Through their own stories and those of other families of open adoption, Lori and Crystal review the secrets to success, the pitfalls and challenges, the joys and triumphs. By putting the adopted child at the center, families can come to enjoy the benefits of open adoption and mitigate the challenges that may arise.

More than a how-to, this book shares a mindset, a heartset, that can be learned and internalized, so parents can choose to act out of love and honesty throughout their child’s growing up years, helping that child to grow up whole.

• Rank: #425633 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.26" w x .91" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 228 pages

Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years

Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
Patty Cogen (Author)
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A guide for adoptive parents from preparations for a child's arrival through the teen years.

• Rank: #412519 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.38" w x 8.99" l, 1.75 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

A Child's Journey Through Placement

A Child's Journey Through Placement
Vera I. Fahlberg (Author)
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Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for professionals and carers on how to help these children, who will often have attachment difficulties.

Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. shares her experience and expertise, outlining the significance of attachment and separation, the developmental stages specific to adoptive children and providing guidance on minimizing the trauma of moves. The book also features practical advice on case planning, managing behavior and direct work with children, and throughout are case studies and exercises which provide opportunities for further learning.

A readable, compassionate and practical text, A Child s Journey Through Placement provides the foundation, the resources, and the tools to help students, professionals, parents and others who care to support children on their journey through placement to adulthood.

• Rank: #466612 in Books
• Published on: 2012-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.69" h x .91" w x 6.81" l, 1.65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages