Posts Tagged ‘adoption’
Improving Children’s Behavior: Re-energizing the Traumatized Brain in Children
Follow this link to download handouts from the Foster Care Training Committee (FCTC) training, Improving Children’s Behavior: Re-energizing the Traumatized Brain in Children, featuring Dr. Steven Choy.
Mental Health Needs of Children Who Have Been in Foster Care Explored
The winter 2012 newsletter of the Children, Youth, and Families Office of the American Psychological Association includes several articles about the mental health needs of children and youth who have experienced foster care, including challenges faced by adoptive families and the mental health services they have used. Follow link for more information.
Unconditional Commitment
Caring for teens can be rewarding, especially if you provide them with what they need most: Unconditional Commitment.
Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption
Insight and understanding of adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents. A book for anyone who wants to know more about the realities of adoption. Marlou Russell, Ph.D. speaks and writes on issues of adoption while maintaining a private practice in Santa Monica, California. She is an adoptee in reunion with many relatives from both sides of her birth family.
Attaching in Adoption
This book covers many issues, including cross-cultural and interracial adoption, religious concerns and other complications for attaching, such as ADHD and learning disabilities.
Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: A Guide for Legal Professionals
Achieving Permanency addresses the legal, medical, psychological, economic and social issues that often pose challenges to teens seeking permanent families. This book offers guidelines that describe different case types and propose specific solutions and approaches, including step-by-step legal and casework strategies.
Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificate
This new online documentary speaks to the issues related to adoptee access to their original birth certificates. It is “Vital Records,” a 20 minute film by Jean Strauss, and can be found at http://web.mac.com/fbeavers/iWeb/Access%202006/Movie.html. In the voices of birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees, and their allies we hear rebutted all of the arguments presented against access. [...]
Hawai`i Celebrates National Adoption Day
Hawai`i held its 2nd annual National Adoption Day Celebration on Friday, November 14, 2008. Twenty-eight Hawaii children were officially adopted by forever families on this day. Afterwards a joyous celebration was held in front of the court house on Oahu. Click on this link to read all about it and to see a video clip of the event: [...]
