Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School

Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School

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  • Author: Emma Gore Langton
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 1784505366
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have special educational needs. This useful resource provides a complete plan for creating adoption-friendly environments in primary, secondary and specialist schools. The book is grounded on new research which gathered together testimonies from over 400 school staff members, adoptive parents and adoption specialists. With realistic consideration of pressures and limitations currently faced by schools, it gives advice on eight key areas for school development, including communicating with parents, training staff, using resources wisely and recognising children's individual needs. Completing the toolkit is a broad selection of photocopiable and downloadable plans for establishing adoption-friendly frameworks, and for demonstrating good practice to staff, pupils, families and school inspectors.


Talking with Young Children about Adoption

Talking with Young Children about Adoption

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  • Author: Mary Watkins
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300063172
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 274

Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.


Just Right Family

Just Right Family

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  • Author: Silvia Lopez
  • Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
  • ISBN: 0807540838
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 35

Winner, 2018 Gwen P. Reichert Gold Medal for Children's Literature, Florida Book Award Meili, who is six years old and adopted from China, learns that her parents are going to adopt a baby from Haiti. She's not happy. Why do they need a new baby? Their family is just right as it is. As Meili learns more about her new sibling and the importance of being a big sister, will she realize that a new addition can be just right for their family too?


Being Adopted

Being Adopted

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  • Author: David M. Brodzinsky
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • ISBN: 0385414269
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.


Making Room in Our Hearts

Making Room in Our Hearts

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  • Author: Micky Duxbury
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135917574
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin. Making Room in Our Hearts offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve over time, with real-life stories from families who have experienced open adoption first-hand. This book helps both adoptive and birth parents address their fears and concerns, while offering them the support to put the child’s psychological and spiritual needs at the center of adoption. Based on interviews with more than one hundred adopted children, birth and adoptive parents, extended families, professionals and experts, the book is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape of adoption, and Making Room in Our Hearts will help us catch up to the reality that is open adoption today.


Fast Track Adoption

Fast Track Adoption

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  • Author: Dr. Susan Burns
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • ISBN: 1429971428
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

Most couples in the U.S. have to wait up to seven years to adopt an infant domestically--and all the expense and waiting doesn't always result in a successful adoption. Now, rather than relying on slow-paced and expensive adoption agencies, many couples are choosing to privately adopt a child. By eliminating the adoption agency, couples can customize and control their own adoption plan. Inside this book, couples will learn how becoming proactive in the adoption process may significantly speed up the adoption. Following the Fast Track method, readers will learn how to: - Establish a budget - Assemble a professional team - Obtain an approved home study - Prepare an effective family profile - Advertise for and talk to potential birth mothers - Detect warning signs for frauds and scams - Be prepared at the hospital With this book as their guide, potential parents can actively pick their own birth mother. By doing so, couples will save time and money, reduce stress, and, most importantly, find a baby to adopt.


You Can Adopt

You Can Adopt

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  • Author: Susan Caughman
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • ISBN: 0345504011
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

From Adoptive Families magazine, the country’s leading resource on adoption, this warm, authoritative book is full of practical, realistic advice from leading attorneys, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as honest, intimate stories from real parents and children. You Can Adopt answers every question–even the ones you’re afraid to ask: • When should I shift from fertility treatment to adoption? • How do I talk to my spouse about adoption? • Can we find a healthy baby? • Do I need an attorney? An adoption agency? • Can the birth mother take the baby back? • How much will this really cost? How long will it take? • Aren’t all adopted children unhappy? • Can I love a child who “isn’t mine”? • How can I ease the rest of my family into this decision? Complete with checklists and worksheets, You Can Adopt will help make your dreams of family come true.


Home for Good

Home for Good

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  • Author: Krish Kandiah
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 1444745328
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 132

Tying in to a nationwide joint campaign by the Evangelical Alliance and Care for the Family, Krish Kandiah wants us all to take seriously Jesus's call to 'suffer the little children' by engaging with the needs of the many thousands of children up and down the country who are in care and whom the church could and should be helping. Krish and his wife Miriam have adopted and fostered children themselves and their experience - and that of the many others in this book - is very different from the popular myth which suggests social services seek to prevent Christians from getting involved. Krish argues that whatever the state's stance may be, it is a part of our calling as God's church to get involved where it's hardest, and to help these children out of the tough realities they find themselves in. Filled with stories from people who have adopted or were adopted themselves, alongside practical advice on how it all works and the challenges that will come, this book makes a compelling case that the church can and must make a difference in these children's lives, and asks us all to consider our response.


ABC, Adoption & Me

ABC, Adoption & Me

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  • Author: Gayle H. Swift
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780985676285
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

A book about adoption that celebrates the miracle of family and addresses the difficult issues as well. With charming, exuberant illustrations and a diverse representation of families, ABC, Adoption & Me will warm hearts, deepen understanding of what it means to be an adoptive family and provide teaching moments that bring families closer, connected in truth, compassion, and joy.


The Trauma and Attachment-Aware Classroom

The Trauma and Attachment-Aware Classroom

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  • Author: Rebecca Brooks
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 1785928775
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202

Trauma can have a significant impact on the stability of a child's development and can put additional pressures on the education staff working with them. Showing you how you can best support children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences, this guide is full of practical guidance on how you can adapt your teaching with this group. Covering a range of issues a child may have, such as foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, pathological demand avoidance, attachment difficulties and many more, this book provides the trauma-informed tools you need to care for these children and to give the best possible opportunities from their education. It also addresses the difference children may experience in learning, how they behave, how teachers can ensure home--school cooperation, and how teachers can act in a trauma-informed manner.