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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. |
Abstract:
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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- Adoption -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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- Foster children -- United States -- Psychology.
- Secrecy -- Psychological aspects.
- Communication in families -- United States.
- Disclosure of information -- United States.
- Adoptiefkinderen.
- Herkomst.
- Geheimhouding.
- Communicatie.

