Adopting older children
Subtitle: a practical guide to adopting and parenting children over age four
By: Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero, MA, Gloria Russo Wassell, MS, LMHC, and Victor Groza, PhD
Contributors: Wassell, Gloria Russo, author; Groza, Victor, 1956- author
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780882824826
Subjects: Older child adoption; Parent and child; Adoption
Description: "Are you thinking of adopting an older child? There are 200,000 plus hoping for families in the U.S. alone and more worldwide. Adopting an older child, though, presents a unique set of parenting issues as well as rewards. Adopting Older Children highlights the most significant challenges when parenting older adoptees who face mental health, behavioral and educational issues. Included is critical information about developmental issues that may arise for the adoptee, issues related to the adoptee's emerging sense of self, sexual orientation and cultural identity and other special needs that an adoptee may have"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281).
Table of contents: title: The adoption process. Deciding to adopt an older child ; Who can adopt an older child? ; Adopting within the united states ; Intercountry adoption ; Post-adoption services; title: Adoptive families. Welcoming your child home ; Adoptive families are "real" families : educating friends and family about older child adoption ; Multicultural and multiracial adoptive families ; Sibling relationships ; Navigating biological family relationships and understanding adoption; title: Understanding your child. The traumatized child ; Grief and loss in adopted children ; Attachment and adoption ; Emerging sense of self ; Mental health ; Physical health ; Development and learning ; Parenting methods to build your child's resilience and enhance behavioral functioning; title: Adoptive parents' problems. The strengths of adoptive parents ; The importance of social support and community ; Adoptive parents' self-care ; Help for adoptive parents dealing with serious issues.