What is Adoption? For Kids!
Published on 3. November 2021
Book
Hardback
40 pages
978-1-0879-8948-8 (ISBN)
Description
A book appropriate for all children and families connected by adoption. Beautifully illustrated, this work provides a deeper understanding of how the adoption process works and the feelings that many children have about being adopted. Written in simple terms it aims to inspire an honest conversation about the realities of how adoptive families are formed today. This book is authored by a licensed psychotherapist, who is also an adoptee and who's first hand experience provides a special insight into the complex feelings for all involved. The book provides adoption competent mental health interventions specifically focused on adoption related challenges, and educates the reader about dealing with issues around grief and loss.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 5 to 12 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
301 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0879-8948-8 (9781087989488)
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Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., MF.T., is the Executive Director and Founder of Celia Center, a non-profit support center which meets the critical needs of all those connected by foster care and adoption and all those who serve the community of foster care and adoption in Los Angeles, CA and beyond. She is also an adoptions and foster care psychotherapist and director of Yoffe Therapy. Yoffe's desire to become a therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system. Yoffe has been in the field for over 20 years, providing mental health education and support, as a psychotherapist, foster care social worker, clinical director, and trainer for Los Angeles County Child & Family Services and the Department of Mental Health. She continues to teach parents, social workers and therapists on adoption and foster care challenges, trauma-informed parenting, impact of pre-adoption trauma, grief/loss, open adoption, and provides support to adult adoptees searching for long lost family members, as well as assists in reunion and family reunification. She is a Court Appointed Reunification Expert for Los Angeles Superior Court in cases involving children at risk for separation. She has appeared on the OWN and TLC Network, as a Psychotherapist teaching about Adoption in the shows Raising Whitley and Long Lost Family. She has written two books, What is Adoption? For Kids and Groundbreaking Interventions: Working with Traumatized Children, Teens and Families in Foster Care and Adoption (available on Amazon) and a play about growing up in foster care adoption "What's Your Name, Who's Your Daddy?"(available on Audible and on Amazon). For more info visit JeanetteYoffe.com.