Making Room in Our Hearts Keeping Family Ties through Open Adoption
Auteur : Duxbury Micky
Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin. Making Room in Our Hearts offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve over time, with real-life stories from families who have experienced open adoption first-hand. This book helps both adoptive and birth parents address their fears and concerns, while offering them the support to put the child?s psychological and spiritual needs at the center of adoption. Based on interviews with more than one hundred adopted children, birth and adoptive parents, extended families, professionals and experts, the book is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape of adoption, and Making Room in Our Hearts will help us catch up to the reality that is open adoption today.
Ito, Foreword. Introduction. My Family's Story. Into the Heart of Child-centered Open Adoption. Understanding Each Other's Fears and Concerns. "This Baby Belongs to Itself and the More People Who Love It, The Better". Becoming Extended Family. Openness in the Public Adoption System. Opening Closed Adoptions. Unique Families - Unique Challenges. Making It Work. A Call For Change. Closing Thoughts. Resources. References
Micky Duxbury is an adoptive parent of a beautiful and expressive daughter brought to her family through domestic adoption in 1994. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has practiced in the Bay Area for twenty years. Currently specializing in pre and post-adoption education and counseling, she has facilitated pre-adoption support groups for the for eight years. She developed and taught a course on The Psychology of Adoption and offers workshops on Raising Adopted Children. A strong proponent of ethical and child-centered adoption practices, she has worked as a mediator and therapist with all members of the adoption triad.
Date de parution : 11-2006
17.8x25.4 cm
Date de parution : 07-2017
17.8x25.4 cm
Thèmes de Making Room in Our Hearts :
Mots-clés :
open; adoption; birth; parents; mother; adoptive; family; father; adopted; child; Birth Parents; Open Adoption; Birth Mother; Young Man; Birth Family; Adoptive Family; Adoptive Kinship Networks; Adoptive Mother; Transracial Adoption; Public Adoption; Birth Father; Birth Grandparents; Extended Family; Full Biological Siblings; Extended Birth Family; Adoption Professionals; Birth Grandmother; International Adoption; Children’s Birth Mothers; Domestic Adoption; Children’s Birth Parents; Adult Adoptees; Birth Family Members; Multiple Birth Families; Public Child Welfare System