Product Description: This updated and expanded second edition continues the theme of the first edition: emphasizing the need to help adoptive parents understand some potentially challenging factors so they can deal with them positively and also comprehend the thinking process of their child...read more

Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families. Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, The Emotional Experience of Adoption explores issues such as: the emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child’s inner world how psychoanalytic child psychotherapy can help as a distinctive source of understanding and as a treatment for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers. The Emotional Experience of Adoption explains and accounts for the emotional and psychological complexities involved for child, parents and professionals in adoption. It will be of interest and relevance to anyone involved at a personal level in the adoption process or professionals working in the fields of adoption, social work, child mental health, foster care and family support.

Product Description: Written for a professional readership, Creating New Families will be of interest to those directly involved in the fields of fostering and adoption. It represents best practice from the multidisciplinary Fostering and Adoption Team at the Tavistock Clinic Children and Families Department...read more

Product Description: With an emphasis on the disease conditions of dogs, cats, horses, swine, cattle and small ruminants, Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmer's Pathology of Domestic Animals, 6th Edition continues its long tradition of being the most comprehensive reference book on common domestic mammal pathology...read more

Product Description: In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of domestically born infants being placed for adoption...read more

An illuminating and compassionate guide examines the unique challenges, obstacles, stresses, and expectations of families who have adopted children, addressing such issues as bonding with an adopted child, coping with unexpected needs, and finding the understanding, support, and solutions needed to make adoption a positive experience. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Based on the author's experiences as an adoptive mother and foster parent, as well as interviews with numerous adoptive families, adoption professionals and adults who were adopted, Our Own thoroughly explores both the joys and the challenges of older child adoption...read more

Product Description: Experts representing practitioners, researchers, advocates, and triad members, explore the similarities and differences between adoptees placed as infants and as older children. The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adoption is intended to be, and should be, a fulfilling, beautiful, rewarding, and enriching aspect in anyone’s life. Many times, however, there are pitfalls and a lack of resources to turn to for help, advice, and answers on the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The health consequences for children exposed to alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs are enormous, but the implications for behavior and learning are even greater. The Nature of Nurture explores the biological and environmental factors that impact the ultimate development of drug-exposed children and presents practical strategies for helping children reach their full potential at home and in the classroom...read more

Product Description: The Impact of Adoption on Members of the Triad considers how adoption practice and policy impact those who are the clients of adoption services-adopted individuals, birth parents, prospective adoptive parents, and adoptive parents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a unique contribution to the field of adoption. It documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process -- adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and professionals. It is informed by psychoanalytic and social and cultural theory perspectives and so provides an important dimension to social policy, welfare work and the personal accounts...read more

Product Description: In this unique book, the reader is provided with a description of the unfolding of the adoptee's personality from birth, detailing each developmental milestone along the way, followed by different methods of healing the adoptee's wounds, including inner child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on developmental and clinical issues in children's adjustment to adoption, the authors introduce this volume with an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives, then explore various theories that have addressed the issue of psychological risk associated with adoption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The voices of adoptees trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime in this look at adoption that uses the Erik Erikson seven-stage life-cycle as its model