num_pages: 472
description: Based on a hugely successful US model the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.The Seven Core Issues are Loss Rejection Shame/Guilt Grief Identity Intimacy and Mastery/Control. The book expands the model to be inclusive of adoption and all forms of adoption foster care kinship care donor insemination and surrogacy. Attachment and trauma are integrated with the Seven Core Issues model to address and normalize the additional tasks individuals and families will encounter.The book views the Seven Core Issues from a range of perspectives multi-racial LGBTQ Hispanic Asian Native American African-American International openness search and reunion and others. This essential guide introduces each Core Issue its impact on individuals offering techniques for growth and healing.
language: None
title: Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction
publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers