The Primal Wound

Author: Nancy Newton Verrier
Publisher: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (Ba
ISBN: 9781905664764
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally published in 1993, this classic piece of literature on adoption has revolutionised the way people think about adopted children. Nancy Verrier examines the life-long consequences of the 'primal wound' - the wound that is caused when a child is separated from its mother - for adopted people. Her argument is supported by thorough research in pre- and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding and the effects of loss.

Parenting for Peace

Author: Marcy Axness
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591811767
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
This book emphasizes a mother's role in the development of the child's brain and emotional infrastructures.

Coming Home to Self

Author: Nancy Newton Verrier
Publisher: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (Ba
ISBN: 9781905664818
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Although written with adopted children and adult adoptees in mind, Coming Home to Self is a book that can help anyone who has experienced an early childhood trauma or feels the need to re-examine their life and who they are. From understanding basic trauma and the neurological consequences of trauma to step by step methods of healing, Verrier's book will help readers discover their true self, take responsibility for that self and discover their personal spiritual path.

Coming Home to Self

Author: Nancy Newton Verrier
Publisher: Verrier Publishing
ISBN: 9780963648013
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book explains the role of separation trauma in the life of adoptees and birth mothers and how that trauma affects the neurological system. It demonstrates how the inner, fearful child may be running the lives of adoptees. It shows how the meaning we give to events determines our beliefs and how those beliefs control our feelings, attitudes and behavior. It gives guidelines for discovering the authentic self and for becoming accountable for our impact on others.

Being Adopted

Author: David M. Brodzinsky
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385414269
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Author: Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0307570819
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
"Birthdays may be difficult for me." "I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family." "When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me." "I am afraid you will abandon me." The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents. Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child--and within the adoptive home.

Adoption Healing

Author: Joe Soll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
A unique book describing the coersion of pregnant women to surrender their babies to adoption, the personal holocaust suffered by them, and strategies for healing

Talking with Young Children about Adoption

Author: Mary Watkins
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063172
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.

What is Adoption? For Kids!

Author: Jeanette Yoffe
Publisher: Yoffe Therapy Incorporated
ISBN: 9781087989488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
This work provides a deeper understanding of how the adoption process works and supports children with the feelings they have about adoption. Mental health interventions provided.

The Girls Who Went Away

Author: Ann Fessler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143038974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.