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Complete
Adoption Book: Everything You Need to Know to Adopt
a Child
by: Laura Beauvais-Godwin
Discusses each step in the
adoption process, from choosing an agency to bringing
a child home. |
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The
Open Adoption Experience - A Complete Guide for Adoptive
and Birth Families
by: Lois Ruskai Melina
An authoritative and reassuring guide to the
issues and concerns of adoptive and birth families through
all stages of the open adoption relationship. |
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Toddler
Adoption: The Weaver's Craft
by: Mary Hopkins Best
Toddler Adoption is essential reading for anyone
considering the adoption of a boy or girl falling within
the one to three year age. |
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The
Adoption Resource Book, 4th edition
by: Louis Gilman
This book contains all the information a couple
or an individual needs to investigate adoption alternatives,
arrange for and complete a successful adoption, and raise
an adoptive family. |
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Adopting:
Sound Choices, Strong Families
by:
Patricia Irwin Johnston
Adopting: Sound Choices Strong Families offers
expert guidance, insight and key understanding about adoption
as a genuine, practical means for growing a family–perhaps
even yours.
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Are
Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted
From Other Countries
by:
Cheri Register
The book addresses many central issues about
international adoption. |
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The
Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step
Guide to Finding Your Child
by:
Dawn Davenport
A valuable guide to helping parents manage the
emotional roller coaster as well as the practical aspects
that come with the international adoption decision and
process. |
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Culture
Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the
Negotiation of Family Difference
by:
Heather Jacobson
Explores the practice by international adoptive
parents, of incorporating aspects of their children’s
cultures of origin into their families’ lives.
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Labours
of Love: Canadians Talk About Adoption
by
Deborah A. Brennan
Labours
of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have
overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents.
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Great
Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption: What Children
Need to Know
by:
Fanny Cohen Herlem
This handy, practical guide offers useful advice
for parents, counselors and other professionals working
with adopted children.
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Keys
to Parenting an Adopted Child
by:
Kathy Lancaster
Discusses
family preparation, bonding and developmental stages to
adjustment difficulties, attachment issues, inter-racial/international
adoptions and more, this is a detailed and helpful guide
for contemporary families.
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Labor
of the Heart: A Parent's Guide to the Decisions and Emotions
in Adoption
by: Kathleen Whitten
As would-be parents cycle through the adoption process,
they balance anxiety and fear with the life-altering decision
of adoption.
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Connecting
With Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives To Facilitate
Attachment In Adopted Children
by: Denise Lacher
Connecting with Kids through Stories is an
accessible guide to Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
for the parents of adopted or fostered children, and
for the professionals who work with them. |
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Adoption
Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections
by: Jean MacLeod
Parenting adopted children requires parenting with an
extra layer and this book helps you to understand where
that extra layer falls. |
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Raising
Adopted Children, Revised Edition
by: Lois Ruskai
Melina
Addresses the pressing adoption issues of today, such
as open adoption, international adoption, and transracial
adoption, and answers parents' most frequently asked
questions. |
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Talking
with Young Children about Adoption
by:
Ms. Mary Watkins
This book deals with questions youngsters ask about their
adoption, contains revealing conversations between parents
and their children. |
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Attaching
in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
by: Deborah D. Gray
Proper attachment is the most fundamental issue
in a successful adoption. Attaching in Adoption provides
solutions to a variety of specific attachment problems.
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The
Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive
family
by: Karen Purvis
Build bonds
of affection and trust with your adopted child. Effectively
deal with any learning or behavioral disorders. |
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Adopting
the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids
by: Gregory C. Keck
This book reveals the real hope that hurting children
can be healed through adoptive and foster parents, social
workers, and others who care. |
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Beyond
Consequences, Logic, and Control
by:
Heather T. Forbes
Covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind
and how trauma alters children's behavioral responses.
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Damaged
Angels: An Adoptive Mother's Struggle to Understand the
Tragic Toll of Alcohol in Pregnancy
by:
Bonnie Buxton
Part heartfelt memoir, part practical guide,
Damaged Angels recounts Bonnie Buxton's struggles to raise
an adopted daughter whom she didn't realize was afflicted
with fetal alcohol disorder. |
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Healing
Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love
by: Michael Orlans
& Terry Levy
A guide designed to provide the information,
tools, support, self-awareness and hope needed to help
a wounded child heal emotional wounds and improve behaviorally,
socially, and morally.
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