Adoption assistance for professionals : aspects, considerations, and resources

Summary: Children leaving out-of-home care for adoption or other family permanency require preparation and support to help them understand the past events in their lives and to process feelings connected to their experiences of abuse and neglect, separation, loss, rejection, and abandonment. Child welfare, foster care, and adoption agencies often assume that permanent families will provide the healing environment for these children and youth, and these agencies spend considerable resources to recruit, train, and support foster and adoptive parents to provide legal permanency and well-being for these ch.

Record details

ISBN: 9781634827140
ISBN: 1634827147
ISBN: 1634827155
ISBN: 9781634827157
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preparing children and youth for adoption or other family permanency -- Sibling issues in foster care and adoption -- Providing background information to adoptive parents -- Working with birth and adoptive families to support open adoption -- Preparing and supporting foster parents who adopt -- Working with military families as they pursue adoption -- Providing postadoption services.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.