#DisenfranchisedGrief in #Adoption with Nancy Verrier, Tracy Carlis and Jeanette Yoffe
Channel: Jeanette-ically Speaking
Date: 2019-05-31

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Disenfranchised grief: The loss goes unrecognized by others or is minimized or trivialized. "Too often, the focus in adoption is on what the child gained" without an acknowledgment of what was lost, he said. "Too often adoptees and birth parents have not had their sense of loss validated by people around them." - David Brodzinsky Author of Being Adopted
 
For Adoptees Lifelong-
loss of birth parents and loss of their entire birth family; loss of their biological, ethnic, racial, and cultural origins; loss of prior nonbiological caregivers; loss of status among peers; loss of their emotional stability; loss of their feeling of fitting in with their adoptive family; loss of privacy; and loss of their self-identity.

For Birthparents Lifelong
loss of their child;  loss of status among mothers; loss of their emotional stability; loss of their feeling of fitting in with their role in society; loss of privacy; and loss of knowing what happened to their child, especially in a closed adoption.


Adopted children/adults and their birth families face the risk that the UNACKNOWLEDGED, disenfranchised grief could become clinical depression. Viewing the loss in a grief model normalizes the adoptee/birthmother reactions rather than casting them as pathological.

Disenfranchised Grief in Adoption. 2013.

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Jeanette is a child/family/adult therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care challenges which derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system in New York City. Her personal experience has informed her education and provided insight into the unique stresses involved with these issues. Because of Jeanette’s life experience she can more easily connect and relate to the children and teens she works with. She is an exceptional child-care worker who is dedicated to helping each of her clients reach their full potential through mental health therapy and make the difficult journey from despair towards resiliency and hope.

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