Adoption Is For Special People
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Adoption Is For Special People
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Author : Marilyn Anne Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2014-02
Adoption Is For Special People written by Marilyn Anne Hammer and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Adoption categories.
This book was inspired by a fellow teacher, Kate, and her husband, John, as they went through this process to adopt their son, Ethan. During our lunchtime, we discussed when and how to tell a child that they are adopted, and this book seemed to be a gentle and natural way of telling the story of one family on their special quest. The book also shows how one little life can complete a family. I wish everyone on the path toward adoption or living as an adopted child love, strength, and compassion toward everyone concerned.
Special Needs Adoption
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Author : James Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1992-02-28
Special Needs Adoption written by James Rosenthal and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-28 with Family & Relationships categories.
This volume reports the results of a large-scale survey of families who adopted children with special needs: older children, minority children, handicapped children, or sibling groups. In contrast to much of the current literature which focuses on adoption disruption, this study shifts the focus of inquiry to intact families. It assesses perceptions of social work services, parent-child relationships, family functioning, child behavior, school performance, and other aspects of adoptive family life. Rosenthal and Groze compare outcomes for different types of adoptions, including adoptions of children of different ages, adoptions by minority families, transracial adoptions, single-parent adoptions, adoptions by less educated and less wealthy families, adoptions by foster parents, adoptions of children with handicaps, and sibling group adoptions. The authors offer solid advice, based on their sample of 800 respondents, regarding various aspects of practice in the field of adoption, including selection of families, preparation of families and children, and useful follow-up services. Special-Needs Adoption is an invaluable tool for agencies developing adoption programs, and practitioners seeking the latest information regarding adoptive family dynamics.
Adopting And Advocating For The Special Needs Child
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Author : Linda Anne Babb
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1997-05-28
Adopting And Advocating For The Special Needs Child written by Linda Anne Babb and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-28 with Family & Relationships categories.
Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 21 children, 13 of them adopted children with special needs. Tens of thousands of children in the United States alone are waiting in foster care for parents, and many Americans, single and married, want to open their hearts and homes to these children who wait. A landmark 1980 federal law made adopting and raising special needs children affordable even for people of limited means. What could be easier than matching these kids to these families? The reality is that many prospective adopters never complete the adoption process because of red tape, regulations, and institutional lethargy. Among the adults who complete a homestudy or placement, lack of support services and advocacy training sometimes leads to heartbreak and adoption failure—not a happy ending. Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 23 children, 14 of them adopted children with special needs.
Adopting A Child With Special Needs
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Adopting A Child With Special Needs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Adopted children categories.
Special Needs Adoptions
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Author : Ruth G. McRoy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-28
Special Needs Adoptions written by Ruth G. McRoy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-28 with Psychology categories.
With the new federal mandate to double, by the year 2002, the number of children in foster care who are to be adopted or placed in permanent legal guardianships, it is essential for adoption agency staff and prospective families to learn which factors contribute to successful and unsuccessful placements. Dr. Ruth McRoy's informative guide, Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues outlines what formulates a successful match between adoptable children with special needs and their prospective parents, and how the current placements can be improved. Dr. McRoy recognizes the challenges of building families through adoptions and offers specific training suggestions for special needs adoptive families and agency workers in order to improve adoption outcomes for children. The book is based on a research project designed to identify special needs adoptions practice issues that contributed to intact, disruptive and dissolved adoptions by collecting data from adoption supervisors, post-adoption service providers, and actual case records of adoption placements. Based on the findings, the characteristics of children needing adoptive placement are described, practice issues such as matching children and parents are addressed, and transition planning is discussed. Further, controversial placement issues including foster parent adoptions, single parent adoptions, sibling placement and transracial adoptions are dealt with. Special Needs Adoptions is a rich, resourceful guide for all of the parties involved in a special need adoption: state and private adoption agency staff, post-adoption service providers, child welfare policy makers and researchers. Special Needs Adoptions is also a wonderful resource for adoptive parents or prospective parents considering special needs adoptions.
On The Frontier Of Adoption
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Author : Katherine A. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Release Date : 1985
On The Frontier Of Adoption written by Katherine A. Nelson and has been published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Family & Relationships categories.
We Adopted Five Special Needs Foster Kids
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Author : Ann Ellsworth
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-11-05
We Adopted Five Special Needs Foster Kids written by Ann Ellsworth and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
A powerful memoir about the joys and pains of making a family. In 2008, Ann and Dan made the life-altering decision to start a family. In their mid-forties and inspired by various stories that they had heard, the couple decided to adopt special needs children through foster care. Not wanting to separate siblings, Ann and Dan’s family eventually grows to seven, first with the adoption of Jimmy and Ruby, and then Jason, Susie, and Anthony. But, the transition was not without its challenges. The children, aged five to ten years old, had been neglected, abused, and diagnosed with behavioral, cognitive, medical, and psychiatric conditions, none of which could be treated medically. Their first months in their new home were intense, overwhelming, and on occasion, violent. With numerous outbursts and incidents, Ann and Dan’s patience and resolve were constantly tested. But slowly, when surrounded with stability, warmth, compassion, and love, the children settled in and became a family. Poignant and heartfelt, We Adopted Five Special-Needs Foster Kids is for any reader who has ever been part of a family.
Adoption And Foster Care For Special Needs Children
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Author : Project Share
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Adoption And Foster Care For Special Needs Children written by Project Share and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Adoption categories.
Raising Shane
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Author : Kate Rosemary
language : en
Publisher: Ideas Into Books Westview
Release Date : 2008
Raising Shane written by Kate Rosemary and has been published by Ideas Into Books Westview this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If you are thinking about fostering or adoption, this is a good book to start with. It doesn't offer beautiful pictures of waiting infants or angelic toddlers. Those, you can get from any agency. Instead, in fifty-two short chapters on different topics related to adoption and foster care, this book invites you to consider and prepare for realistic possibilities your agency may not think to mention. This book is written from the point of view of a foster and adoptive parent who has found the experience to be fulfilling, rewarding, gratifying, and exhausting! Each thought-provoking topic is illustrated with a poignant example from the author's life, and followed by worksheets on which the reader is challenged to provide his or her own perspectives in response. In the thirty years between 1977 and 2007, the author parented one birth son, two stepsons, three foster daughters, one foster son, and three adopted sons. Most of these young people presented with some combination of characteristics that put them in a category known as "special needs" or "hard to place." These characteristics included being older than five at the time of placement (the youngest was six and the oldest eighteen), being in a racial minority (one daughter and one son), and being part of a sibling group (the two youngest brothers). Their medical and psychiatric diagnoses include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Major Depression, Physical Abuse, Manic Depression with Psychotic Episodes, Hemophilia that resulted in AIDS from a blood transfusion, Multiple Personality Disorder (now known as Disassociative Identity Disorder), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Addiction, Sexual Abuse, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Borderline Intellectual Functioning, Sociopathy, Hypertension, Failure to Thrive, Hearing Impairment, Rickets, and Polycystic Kidney Disease. Some of the stories are funny. Some are tragic. All are true.
No Child Is Unadoptable
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Author : Sallie R. Churchill
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1979-03
No Child Is Unadoptable written by Sallie R. Churchill and has been published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-03 with Family & Relationships categories.