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Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues
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A much-needed anthology addressing a variety of potential psychological and physiological concerns, Adoption Therapy, Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues is a must-read for adoptees, adoptive parents, first families, and vitally, mental health professionals.
With writing by adoptees, adoptive parents, and clinicians, Adoption Therapy is a first-of-its-kind and wholly unique reference book, providing insight, advice, and personal stories which highlight the specific nature of the adoptee experience.
Topics Include:
•The psychological dangers in leaving trauma and grief buried and unaddressed
•The importance of community in healing the wounds of separation
•Understanding the physical and psychological effects of transracial adoption
•Attachment—including the inability to attach, inappropriate attachment, and the myth of Reactive Attachment Disorder
•Conception by rape: an adoptee speaks out
•Co-dependency, intimacy, and creating closeness
•The life-long effects of pre- and perinatal trauma
•Processing complex trauma, complex grief, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
•Specific concerns for Late Discovery Adoptees
•The relationship among trauma, anger and rage, and substance abuse
•For adoptive parents and adoptees: red flags when working with a therapist
With writing by adoptees, adoptive parents, and clinicians, Adoption Therapy is a first-of-its-kind and wholly unique reference book, providing insight, advice, and personal stories which highlight the specific nature of the adoptee experience.
Topics Include:
•The psychological dangers in leaving trauma and grief buried and unaddressed
•The importance of community in healing the wounds of separation
•Understanding the physical and psychological effects of transracial adoption
•Attachment—including the inability to attach, inappropriate attachment, and the myth of Reactive Attachment Disorder
•Conception by rape: an adoptee speaks out
•Co-dependency, intimacy, and creating closeness
•The life-long effects of pre- and perinatal trauma
•Processing complex trauma, complex grief, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
•Specific concerns for Late Discovery Adoptees
•The relationship among trauma, anger and rage, and substance abuse
•For adoptive parents and adoptees: red flags when working with a therapist
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Additional information
| Publisher | Entourage Publishing (6 Oct. 2014) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 2365 KB |
| Simultaneous device usage | Unlimited |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 228 pages |
| Page numbers source ISBN | 098561689X |
by Sid
Excellent resource for using in my practice
by diane barnes
I enjoyed this book very much ,it gave the in sight to adoptees feelings on being adopted in parts it was very in tense
glad i was able to read it and pass it on .
by louise m
Interesting book.