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Telling the truth to your adopted or foster child : making sense of the past

Author: Betsy Keefer; Jayne E Schooler
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Provides parents with the knowledge and tools they need to communicate with their adopted or foster child about the circumstances of their past.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Betsy Keefer; Jayne E Schooler
ISBN: 0897896912 9780897896917
OCLC Number: 42771832
Description: xvi, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Chapter 1 The Power of Secrets on Family Relationships 1 --
Chapter 2 Truth or Consequences: A Great Debate 13 --
Chapter 3 Just the Facts, Ma'am: Why Do Children Need Them? 25 --
Chapter 4 A Fact-Finding Mission: How to Gather What You Need to Know 37 --
Chapter 5 Adoption Through a Child's Eyes: Developmental Stages 53 --
Chapter 6 Through a Parent's Eyes: Core Issues, Coping Styles, and Communication 71 --
Chapter 7 The Ten Commandments of Telling: Principles to Consider 87 --
Chapter 8 Sharing the Hard Stuff: The Adoptive Parent's Challenge 97 --
Chapter 9 Tools of Communication Between Parents and Children 115 --
Chapter 10 Transracial or Transcultural Adoption: Talking About Adoption Within a Minority Family 137 --
Chapter 11 Kinship Foster Care and Adoption: Telling the Truth When It's "All in the Family" 153 --
Chapter 12 Opening a Closed Adoption for School-Age Children: Questions Most Asked by Parents 165 --
Chapter 13 Adolescence--Chronic but Not Terminal: Keeping Lines of Communication Open 181 --
Chapter 14 Opening a Closed Adoption--The Teenage Years 195 --
Chapter 15 Communicating about Adoption in the Classroom: Teaching the Teachers 211.
Responsibility: Betsy Keefer and Jayne E. Schooler ; illustrations by Jack G. and Kristi Anne Kammer.

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Provides parents with the knowledge and tools they need to communicate with their adopted or foster child about the circumstances of their past.

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