Adoptive Parenting

• Entitlement and Claiming

• Helping Your Child Transition from Foster Care to Adoption

• What Makes Adoptive Parenting Different from Parenting a Biological Child

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Advocating and Coordinating Services

• Accessing Adoption Support and Preservation Services

• Finding and Working With Adoption-Competent Therapists

• Adoption Competency in Clinical Social Work

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Attachment-Based Parenting

• Adoption and Attachment: Forming a Secure Bond with Your Adopted Child

• Attachment and Bonding

• Developing Emotional Attachments in Adopted Children

• How to Develop a Bond with an Adopted Child

• Laughter, Attachment and Adopting Older Kids

• Top Ten Tips for the First Year of Placement

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Core Adoption Issues

• 7 Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency

• 7 Core Emotional Issues in Adoption

• 7 Core Issues in Adoption (Kinship Center/ACT grid)

• Ambiguous Loss Haunts Foster and Adopted Children

• Grief Speaks – Adoption Issues

• Impact of Adoption on Adopted Person

• Lifelong Impact of Adoption

• Impact of Adoption on Birth Parents and Relatives

• Lifelong Issues in Adoption

• The Invisible Realities of Adoption

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Family Integration

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• 11 Tips for Building Strong Relationships Among Family Members 

• 10 Tips for Integrating a Challenging Child into Your Family

• Adoption & Sibling Relationships: What Children Have Taught Me 

• Addressing the Needs of Non-Adopted Siblings

• Open Adoption: Strangers Who Trust In Each Other For The Sake Of A Child 

• Preparing Siblings for an Older-Child Adoption

• Summer Smiles: Expert Tips for a Positive Summer and Strong Families

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Grief and Loss

• 3-5-7 Model Overview

• Childlessness And Adoption: The Experience Of Loss As A Source Of Suffering

• Getting to the Truth about Adoption

• Grief and Loss in Adopted Children

• Healing Loss in the Traumatized Child

• Purdue University – The “blues” can surprise even adoptive parents

• Saying Goodbye

• Talking with Children about Sadness in Adoption

• When Foster Parents Experience Grief
   

Impact of Trauma

• Becoming A Trauma Competent Healing Parent – Jayne Schooler Handouts

• Parenting Children and Youth Who Have Experienced Abuse and Neglect

• Parenting After Trauma: Understanding Your Child’s Needs

• Supporting Brain Development in Traumatized Children and Youth

• The Long Reach of Childhood Trauma

• Trauma and Your Family

• Child Maltreatment and Brain Development: A Primer for Child Welfare Professionals – Child Welfare Gateway
   

Infertility​

• From Infertility to Adoption: Nine Factors to Consider

• Infertility and Aftershocks

• Making the Transition from Infertility to Adoption

• Resolving The Loss of Fertility

• Surviving Infertility: What is Normal to Feel Even After You Adopt

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Kinship Adoption

• Grandparenting Today – Through The Eyes of a Child

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Fact Sheet Series

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Life Books

• Making History: A Social Workers Guide to Lifebooks

• What is an Adoption Lifebook?

• What is a Lifebook?

• Creating an Adoption Lifebook

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Managing a Child's Overwhelming Emotions and Behaviors

• What to do With All That Anger

• 7 Parenting Tips for Managing the Meltdowns of Easily Distressed Children

• 15 Tips For Calming An Angry Child

• Angry Kids: Dealing With Explosive Behavior

• Child Rage: How to Manage Explosive Behavior in Kids and Teens

• Create Your Own Anti Anxiety Kit For Children

• Created To Connect, Chapter 4: Disarming The Fear Response

• Parenting a Child Who Has Experienced Trauma

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Normative Developmental Tasks and Adoption​

• 6 Questions Every Adopted Teen Wants Answered

• A Psychosocial Model of Adoption Adjustment

• Adolescent Identity and the Impact on Adoptive Parents

• Adolescents and Adoption

• Adoption and Developmental Stages – Child Welfare Information Gateway

• Adoption and the Stages of Development

• Adoption and the Teen Years: Understanding Adoption and Adolescence

• Ages and Stages of Development

• Narrative Burden

• Parenting Your Adopted Preschooler

• Parenting Your Adopted School-Age Child

• Parenting Your Adopted Teenager

• Your Child’s Adoption Life Story
   

Openness and Open Adoption

• 10 Things Adoptees Want You To Know

• Connections Matter: Relationships with Birth Family are Important for Foster, Adopted Children

• Facilitated Openness Can Benefit Children Adopted From Care

• Maintaining Connections with Birth Families in Adoption

• Managing Shifting Expectations in Open Adoption Over Time

• Openness in Adoption

• Open Adoption: Advantages and Benefits

• Sibling Bonds and Separations

• Siblings Separated by Adoption

• Understanding Open Adoption

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Responding to Adoption Questions

• Adoption Awareness: Handling Awkward Adoption Questions and Comments

• Adoption Questions from the Uninformed

• Answering Strangers Questions About Adoption

• Seven Tips for Dealing with Unwanted Questions and Comments About Your Adopted Child

• Talking About Adoption

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Search and Reunion

• 5 Ways Adoptive Parents Can Help Children Find Birth Family

• Navigating Teens’ Online Search and Reunion Process

• Obtaining Birth and/or Adoption Records

• Preparing for an Adoption Search and Reunion

• Preparing for Search and Reunion

• Search and Reunion in Adoption

• Searching For Birth Relatives

• Top 5 Reasons Adoptees Search for Birth Family Members

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Self-Care

• Adoption Parenting and Secondary Trauma

• Self-Care: Barriers and Basics for Foster/Adoptive Families

• Self-Care: Do it for Yourself, Your Family and Your Kids

• Self Care for Foster Parents

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Talking About Adoption

• 5 Tips For Talking to Your Child About Their Adoption

• Is It Private or Is It Secret? Sorting Out What to Tell Whom

• Let's Talk About Adoption

• Positive Adoption Language from Adoptive Families Magazine

• Talking About Adoption

• Talking to Your Child About Adoption

• Talking With Children About Difficult History

• When to Tell Your Child About Adoption

• Why Children Don’t Talk (Much) About Adoption

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Transracial and Transcultural Adoptions

• Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Adoptive Families

• Seven Suggestions for a Successful Transracial Adoption

• Seven Tasks for Parents: Developing Positive Racial Identity

• Transracial Adoption - PACT

• Transracial Adoption: Love Is Just the Beginning

• Transracial Parenting in Foster Care and Adoption

• Your Guide to Raising an Adopted Child of Another Race

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