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Sessions
- Session1 - Introduction to the preparation course to intercountry adoption and to the standards for homestudy assessments
- Session 2 - Exploring adoption family trees and the importance of attachment
- Session 3 - The impact of loss and separation, its relevance to adoption ; Identity, difference and belonging
- Session 4 - Child development & medical matters
- Session 5 - Talking about adoption - telling the adoption story ; Advocating for your child
- Session 6 - Secrets & lies - endings & beginnings
Recommended reading/viewing at this stage
- Session 1 Adopters on adoption: reflections on parenthood and children Adoption in worldwide perspective Adoption: theory, policy and practice Child adoption: a guidebook for adoptive parents and their advisors Intercountry adoption: a multinational perspective International and 'transracial' adoptions Roof and roots The adoption experience, families who give children a second chance
- Session 1 (Facilitators) Child adoption: a guidebook for adoptive parents and their advisors
- Session 2 Adoption and attachment in Malcolm Hill and Martin Shaw Attachment theory for social work practice First steps in parenting the child who hurts tiddlers and toddlers How to tell whether or not you are ready to have children! 10 tests to find out if you are ready to parent: Mess test, Toy test, Grocery store test, Dressing test, Feeding test, Night test, Ingenuity test, Automobile test, Physical test, Final assignment. The making and breaking of affectional bonds
- Session 3 'Transracial' placements: an adoptee’s perspective in working with 'black' children and adolescents in need Adoption bereavement Adoption in my life - the intercountry experience Banished babies: the secret history of Ireland’s baby export business Birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adopted daughters tell their stories Half a million women: mothers who lose their children by adoption Helping children cope with separation and loss Perspectives on a grafted tree: thoughts for those touched by adoption Real parents, real children: parenting the adopted child The authors bring years of experience to the complex emotional issues that parents will negotiate, and expert advice on establishing a healthy, loving parent-child relationship. The adoption papers The grief recovery handbook The long awaited stork The primal wound Within me, without me adoption: an open and shut case?
- Session 4 A ghost in my own country Bruised before birth, parenting children exposed to parental substance abuse Developmental catchup, and deficit, following adoption after severe global early privation Dream’s end
- Session 5 Are those kids yours Cherie Register draws on her experience as the mother of two Korean-born daughters and interviews with adoptive families to illustrate the special challenges multicultural families face. Explaining adoption to children who have been adopted: how do we find the right words? Intercountry adopted children at primary school The psychology of adoption
- Session 5 (Facilitators) Being adopted, the lifelong search for self This book outlines developmental tasks at each of seven stages throughout the life of an adopted person.
- Stage 1 1996: Secret and lies Successful 'black' woman traces her birth mother to a lower-class 'white' woman, who denies it; emotions run high as everyone's secrets are exposed. Are those kids yours Cherie Register draws on her experience as the mother of two Korean-born daughters and interviews with adoptive families to illustrate the special challenges multicultural families face. Being adopted, the lifelong search for self This book outlines developmental tasks at each of seven stages throughout the life of an adopted person. Belonging Cambodian refugee, Li-Da Kruger, is the subject of a documentary (screened on British television in 2003). It was the gripping story of her search to find her roots amongst the rubble of war-torn Cambodia. Beyond good intentions Cherie Register, the mother of two adult daughters adopted as infants from Korea who has offers personal essays reflecting on her own critical consciousness towards the sensitivities that can surround transnational adoption. In search of belonging, reflections by "transracially" adopted people Collection of work by "transracially" adopted people who were raised in the United Kingdom. There are writings (essays, letters, poetry), as well as photos of sculpture and other works of visual art. Intercountry adoption outcomes in Ireland 180 children and their parents who had adopted in Ireland over the last 10 years were interviewed about their thoughts and feelings about intercountry adoption. Download for free Love is not enough – experiences in 'transracial' adoption First hand experience of what it is like to be 'transracially' adopted. Film made with The Association for Transracially adopted and Fostered People. Motherhood silenced: the experiences of natural mothers on adoption reunion Reflections of mothers who part with a child for adoption. The emotional experience of adoption and reunion and how it impacted on their lives is told through the mothers’ own accounts. Raising adopted children Offers parents practical advice about raising an adopted child and covers current issues such as prenatal drug exposure and transracial adoption. Real parents, real children: parenting the adopted child The authors bring years of experience to the complex emotional issues that parents will negotiate, and expert advice on establishing a healthy, loving parent-child relationship. What to expect when you're adopting Having been adopted himself, the author - also a leading clinical psychiatrist - is well placed to write this accessible and straightforward guide. It will take you step-by-step through the emotional implications of adopting a child. Will you be here when I get home? Claire Cashin was adopted. In her youth, she experienced many personal challenges because her birth mother gave her away. This led her in search of her biological mother. This is a true and very honest account of adoption, search and reunion.
- Video Belonging Cambodian refugee, Li-Da Kruger, is the subject of a documentary (screened on British television in 2003). It was the gripping story of her search to find her roots amongst the rubble of war-torn Cambodia. John Disturbing but unique record of a 17-month old boy, who during 9 days in a residential nursery, shows acute distress, protest and despair followed by extreme difficulty in re-uniting with his mother. Love is not enough – experiences in 'transracial' adoption First hand experience of what it is like to be 'transracially' adopted. Film made with The Association for Transracially adopted and Fostered People. The forgotten children A video about children adopted from Romania around 1989 and their lives ten years on.