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Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care
Joseph Crumbley and Robert L. Little
The rapid growth of kinship care has caught many child welfare agencies off guard. Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care gives professionals, agencies, institutions, communities, and organizations the information they need to develop and provide services to kinship caregivers, kinship families, children, and parents. The authors discuss common clinical issues, suggest intervention strategies, examine kinship care's legal implications, and offer policy and program recommendations.
General Adoption, Relative Adoption
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Kinship Care: A Natural Bridge
Child Welfare League of America
Beginning with a definition of kinship parenting and current policy and practice in kinship care, this important new report from the Child Welfare League of America addresses one of the most significant emerging issues in the child welfare field.
General Adoption, Relative Adoption
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Grandparents as Carers of Children With Disabilities
Philip McCallion ,PhD, ACSW & Matthew Janicki, PhD
The number of custodial grandparents continues to increase with one estimate suggesting that about one in ten grandparents will raise grandchildren at some point in their lives. Due to the social conditions that precipitate grandparent care, such as HIV/AIDS, drug use, and abuse/neglect, the children in custody of grandparents may have challenging behavioral, physical and emotional needs.
General Adoption, Relative Adoption
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Inside Kinship Care
David Pitcher
This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships between family members that are involved in kinship care, including mothers, grandparents, siblings and the wider family. Chapters also discuss issues such as safeguarding, assessment, therapy, encouraging permanence, placement breakdown, support groups and cultural issues. The final part of the book looks at kinship care from an international perspective, with examples from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the United States.
General Adoption, Relative Adoption, Professionals, Adoption Issues
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20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
Sherrie Eldridge
Speaking from her own experience as an adoptee, Eldridge shares proven strategies and the moving narratives of nearly 100 adoptive families, helping parents gain a deeper understanding of their children's needs as well as their own. By truly listening to your child, by learning to speak his heart language, you'll learn to connect with him on every level, opening the channels of communication -- and keeping them open forever.
General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, International Adoption, Relative Adoption, Transracial Adoption
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Adoption: Choosing It, Living It, Loving It
Raymond N. Guarendi, PhD
Ray Guarendi, psychologist, husband and father of ten adopted children, considers the most commonly asked adoption questions with insight, humor and a heart for the adoptive family. His aim? To dispel unsettling misperceptions about adoption, to encourage others to think about and act on adoption, and to guide adoptive parents to a more relaxed, rewarding family life for all involved. A must-have resource for those considering adoption, those who have already adopted and those in the mix as family members or friends of adoptive parents.
General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, International Adoption, Relative Adoption, Transracial Adoption
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Forging Connections: Challenges and Opportunities for Older Caregivers Raising Children
New York Council on Adoptable Children, Inc.
This group identified key areas where elderly caregivers face significant challenges. These include the psychological demands of parenting unexpectedly and at a late age; the need for respite; the medical problems common among the elderly; misinformation and/or no information about resources and supports; the difficulties elderly caregivers face securing adequate housing; advocating for children with special needs; and, the financial and legal struggles of elderly caregivers.
General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, International Adoption, Relative Adoption, Transracial Adoption
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Blending Families
Elaine Fantle Shimberg
With the growing rate of second marriages, new family structures are forming, and with these structures come unique problems and needs. Issues discussed include: family communication, discipline, school, customs and rituals, religious differences, reducing stress, adult time, money, holidays and more.
General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, International Adoption, Relative Adoption, Transracial Adoption
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Whose Child? An Adoptee's Healing Journey From Relinquishment Through Reunion... and Beyond
Kasey Hamner
his novel is an account of one adoptee's life story written for members of the adoption community, helping professionals, or anyone touched by adoption. It spans from relinquishment through reunion to help the reader develop a better understanding of the lifelong emotional aspects of adoption and reunion.
General Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Openness in Adoption
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Lost Boy, The
Dave Pelzer
Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possessions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A Child Called "It". In The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved in and out of five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences resentment from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family. Tears, laughter, devastation and hope create the journey of this little lost boy who searches desperately for just one thing -- the love of a family.
General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Children with Special Needs, Trauma & Brain Development, Professionals, Effects of Trauma
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