Promoting Successful Adoptions
Practice with Troubled Families
- Susan Livingston Smith - Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, Illinois State University, USA
- Jeanne A. Howard - Co-Director, Center of Adoption Studies, Catholic Univeristy of Leuven, Belgium
Volume:
40
September 1999 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.
Special Needs Don't Disappear with Adoption
Every Clinician Is in Post-Adoption Practice
We Never Thought It Would Be Like This
They Cry Out in Many Different Ways
Adoption Means Somebody Loves You and Somebody Doesn't
Invisible Wounds
I Just Want to Know More about Who I Am
A Place to Turn When There's No Place Else to Go
No Longer All Alone in the Twilight Zone
Parenting Developmentally Disabled Children
Toward a Better Future
"This book is comprehensive in its presentation of background material, thorough and fair in its review of other studies, and full of useful information and effective case examples. . . . Everyone concerned about the future well-being of adoptive families—practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and adoptive parents—will find the book invaluable."
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