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Promoting successful adoptions : practice with troubled families / Susan Livingston Smith, Jeanne A. Howard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sage sourcebooks for the human services series ; v. 40.Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761906568
  • 9780761906568
  • 0761906576
  • 9780761906575
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.7340973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV875.55 .S653 1999
Contents:
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.
Summary: "This book focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place. The authors, Susan Livingston Smith and Jeanne A. Howard, incorporate the findings of their own unique research project on troubled adoptive families with other empirical research, theory, practice, and knowledge. This volume is rich with case examples, detailed case histories, presentations of various practice strategies, and resources. The overall result is a stand-alone volume offering a clear and well-documented overview of the topic. It will be invaluable to social workers and other professionals working with children and families."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.

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 focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place. The authors, Susan Livingston Smith and Jeanne A. Howard, incorporate the findings of their own unique research project on troubled adoptive families with other empirical research, theory, practice, and knowledge. This volume is rich with case examples, detailed case histories, presentations of various practice strategies, and resources. The overall result is a stand-alone volume offering a clear and well-documented overview of the topic. It will be invaluable to social workers and other professionals working with children and families."--Publisher description.

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