The road to Evergreen
Subtitle: adoption, attachment therapy, and the promise of family
By: Rachael Stryker.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780801446870
Subjects: Attachment disorder in children -- United States; Adoption -- United States -- Psychological aspects; Families -- United States -- Psychological aspects; Parenting -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Evergreen model of attachment therapy : emotional salvation or economic exploitation?; title: "Long before we heard of Evergreen" : adoptive parents' representations of family; title: The fuel that drove us to care : adoption agencies' institutionalization of family; title: Prisoners in our own home : postplacement realities of the family; title: Good-bye to birth parents, hello to forever family : confrontation therapy in the clinic; title: Fast and snappy, mom and dad's way, and right the first time : constructing the therapeutic home; title: Loving each other from a distance : life after attachment therapy failure; title: Out of Evergreen : theorizing the social reproduction of attachment.