Books
Adoption Book Reviews, www.comeunity.com/adoption/books. Recommended adoption books.
Adoptive Parents Assn. of B.C., International Adoption: Building a Family, [Videotape] Post-adoption advice: how two couples and two single mothers handled raising a child from abroad. 604-588-7300.
Brodzinsky, David, Marshall Schecter and Robin Henig. Being Adopted: the Lifelong Search for Self. Anchor, 1993.
Cline, Foster and Fay, Jim. Parenting With Love and Logic. Strategies on raising self-confident, motivated children who are responsible for their actions and make good choices. Parents teach children the natural consequences of their actions.
Coloroso, Barbara. Parenting Through Crisis: Helping kids in times of loss, grief, and change. www.kidsareworthit.com. What to offer our children faced with crisis or loss in their lives.
Fahlberg, Vera. A Child's Journey Through Placement. Perspectives Press. A pediatrician shows how breaks in attachment affect a child's behaviour, intellectual development and emotional well-being. Information for parents and professionals about normal child development.
Foli, Karen J., John R. Thompson. The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption. Rodale, 2004. Solutions for feelings of stress, post-adoption.
Jewett, Claudia. Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss. Techniques for helping children resolve their grief over various life events. Stages of mourning; behaviours expected from children at each stage.
Johnston, Patricia Irwin. Launching a Baby's Adoption: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals. Indianapolis, IN: Perspectives Press, 1998. Dealing with issues of child care, attachment, parenting adjustments, post arrival blues, bringing family and friends on board, birthparent's change of heart.
Keck, Gregory and Kupecky, Regina. Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-needs Kids: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Colorado Springs, Col.: Pinon, 1995. Who the challenged children are, why they hurt, where the system lets them down, and what caring adults (in parenting and professional roles) can do to help.
MacLeod, Jean and Macrae, Sheena, eds. Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections. 2006. EMK Press, 16 Mt. Bethel Road, #216, Warren NJ 07059, 732-469-7544, www.emkpress.com/adoptparent.html.
Melina, Lois. Making Sense of Adoption. Conversations and activities for families formed through adoption, donor insemination, surrogacy, and in vitro fertilization.
Melina, Lois. Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998. Rev. edition. Prenatal drug exposure, medical issues for internationally adopted children, children from orphanages, bonding and attachment, racial and ethnic issues, talking with children about adoption, sexuality, adolescence.
Pavao, Joyce Maguire. The Family of Adoption. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
Peck, Cynthia. Adoption Today: Options and Outcomes. R&W Publications, Box 577, Hackettstown NJ 07840. 67 families tell how they fared after adopting 42 international and 52 domestic children: special needs; medical conditions; emotional problems; learning disabilities.
Register, Cheri. Are Those Kids Yours? American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries. New York, Free Press, 1991. From her own experience and her study of American families, Register emphasizes the life-enhancing aspects of having a dual heritage.
Schaffer, Judith and Christina Lindstrom. How to Raise an Adopted Child: a Guide to Help your Child Flourish from Infancy through Adolescence. New York: Copestone, 1989.
Van Gulden, Holly and Lisa Bartels-Rabb. Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child. New York: Crossroad, 1995. Explaining adoption to children and minimizing difficulties during transfers.
VIDEO: "Gentle Transitions: A Newborn Baby's Point of View About Adoption". Infant-Parent Institute, Champaign IL, 217-352-4060, stephaniem@infant-parent.com
, www.infant-parent.com. 1997, 16 min., $70. What grown-ups should think about, and do, to make the adoption experience work best for a baby.
