Promoting successful adoptions : practice with troubled families / Susan Livingston Smith, Jeanne A. Howard.

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This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Special Needs Don't Disappear With Adoption: The Case for Post-Adoption Services -- 2. Every Clinician Is in Post-Adoption Practice -- 3. We Never Thought It Would Be Like This: Presenting Problems of Troubled Adoptive Families -- 4. They Cry Out in Many Different Ways: Behavior Problems of Special Needs Children -- 5. Adoption Means Somebody Loves You and Somebody Doesn't: Separation, Grief, and Attachment Issues in Work With Families -- 6. Invisible Wounds: Trauma and Its Wake -- 7. I Just Want to Know More About Who I Am: Identity Issues -- 8. Place to Turn When There's No Place Else to Go: An Overview of Adoption Preservation Services -- 9. No Longer All Alone in the Twilight Zone: Support Groups for Children and Parents -- 10. Parenting Developmentally Disabled Children -- 11. Toward a Better Future: Partnerships to Strengthen Adoptive Families.

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