Articles and fact sheets

Di Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.
Traduzione di Marcia E. Salusti

Questo articolo è stato adattato dal materiale sviluppato dalla Dott.ssa Fahlberg sull’assistenza ai bambini con assenza di attaccamento e bambini “confusi” da multipli collocamenti, presentato anche nei suoi libri. I lettori possono trovare questo articolo ed altri in Internet all’indirizzo  http://www.perspectivespress.com/ourfactsheets.html

INTRODUZIONE
Una delle principali funzioni genitoriali consiste nel [...]

Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.
Traduzione di Marcia E. Salusti
Questo articolo, sviluppato per i workshop formativi condotti dalla Dott.ssa Fahlberg, rivolti aspecialisti nel campo dell’assistenza ai minori, si collega ai materiali presentati nel suo libro intitolato A Child’s Journey through Placement. I lettori possono trovare quest’articolo ed altri in Internet all’indirizzo  http://www.perspectivespress.com/articlelist
Gli assistenti sociali spesso percepiscono il [...]

Mary Hopkins-Best, Ed.D.
Chapter 1-2:

Had you thought about the similarities and differences between adoption of an infant, toddler, and older child? What surprised you about the section “What’s So Special About Toddler Adoption?”
How deliberate is your choice to adopt a toddler? How might that affect your adjustment to your child and your child’s adjustment to you?
How [...]

The following article has been excerpted from Chapter 6, Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate Relationships when New Kids Join the Family.
It is so exciting to finally find a child to join your family by adoption! You and the children you already parent-the typically-developing children-can hardly wait to meet the new brother or [...]

Chapter 1 from Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families by Patricia Irwin Johnston

Excerpted from Chapter 9: “The Role of The Child Welfare/Social Worker” in Deborah Gray’s 2007 book Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

Excerpted from Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling’s Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

by Pat Johnston This article first appeared in the enewsletter and on the website of INCIID.org, for which Pat moderates three adoption boards.Similar material now appears in her newest bookAdopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families (2007)

A “user’s guide” to Joan McNamara’s children’s book Borya and the Burps!

from Adopting After Infertility and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston and Wendy Williams

Popular songs providing comfort and empathy through the infertility journey.

from Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein

by Mary Hopkins-Best from Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft first appeared in the PNPIC Post in Autumn, 1997.

by Vera I Fahlberg, M.D. is a part of the training material included in her books A Child’s Journey through Placement and Residential Treatment.

by Ellen Glazer is a provocative essay advocating against “embryo adoption” and for donation of “extra” embryos to stem cell research. It first appeared in the American Infertility Association’s newsletter.

by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer from their book Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations.

from Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein

Excerpted from Deborah Gray’s Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents.

by Vera Fahlberg, MD, was adapted from A Child’s Journey through Placement

by Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D., is an adaptation from her books A Child’s Journey through Placement and Residential Treatment and trainings.

from Taking Charge of Infertility by Pat Johnston

Since the world outside doesn’t “get” adoption, we owe it to our children to help those who will touch their lives–family, friends, teachers, co-workers, pediatrician, etc.–to learn adoption’s real facts rather than allowing them to hold on to the half truths and misconceptions they’ve picked up through gossip and the media. This slim books is a must for those significant others in our family’s life.152 pages. LC 2001021301. ISBN 0-944934-28-5, $14.00

by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston (first appeared in Adoption Today’s January 2001 issue)

by Pat Johnston (with help from her friends on the INCIID adoption boards), from Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Friends and Relatives Must Know

by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston and Wendy Williams from a book in process

by Pat Johnston, adapted from Launching a Baby’s Adoption and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

(Building a sense of entitlement…are you the “real parent”?) by Pat Johnston, first appeared in Roots & Wings magazine after being adapted from Adopting after Infertility. It is now included in Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer from Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations

by Pat Johnston, adapted from Launching a Baby’s Adoption and now <Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

is a new and expanded treatment of material already published in Pat Johnston’s books Launching a Baby’s Adoption and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families, as well as in articles for Adoptive Families magazine, Pact Press, and Serono Symposia USA’s newsletter for professionals, Insights into Infertility. This is controversial stuff, but something all prospective adopters and couples reluctant to put treatment behind before adopting should read.

by Pat Johnston, explores the long-term psychological impact of infertility and discusses why resolving this issue is so important to future parenting relationships. Adapted from Taking Charge of Infertility, this article first appeared in the magazine Pact Press from Pact: An Adoption Alliance.

Activities for you or your group to try by Pat Johnston with the American Fertility Association.

A compiled list of quick, easy, cheap, last-minute ideas for observing AAM this November as well as a list of ideas for observations that will take a half year or more of pre-planning for next year!