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Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work: Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
ISBN: 9781785921858 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores different ways of carrying out life story work, a method which helps traumatized children question and resolve issues from their past. Using the experience of practitioners based in a range of settings, it provides a useful overview of the latest developments in the field.
This book explores different ways of carrying out life story work, a method which helps traumatized children question and resolve issues from their pa...
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170,08 |
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There is a Reward for Parenting
ISBN: 9780955789861 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,19 |
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When Adoptions Go Wrong : Psychological and Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption
ISBN: 9780789031815 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if you were an adopted child and someone tried to remove you from the family you had grown to love? In the last twenty years, changes in laws, judicial decisions, social welfare practices and the availability of American children for adoption have led to an increase in disrupted adoptions. "When Adoptions Go Wrong" examines the psychological and forensic aspects of adoption with an emphasis on how negative events can affect children and the families that choose to adopt them - and how you can prevent those events from happening.
What if you were an adopted child and someone tried to remove you from the family you had grown to love? In the last twenty years, changes in laws, ju...
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The Adoption Triangle: Searching and United
ISBN: 9780747510109 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1975 Children's Act gave children who had been adopted access to their birth certificates and therefore access to at least one of their birth parents. This book includes interviews with many adult adoptees, as well as birth parents, adoptive parents and those professionally involved.
The 1975 Children's Act gave children who had been adopted access to their birth certificates and therefore access to at least one of their birth pare...
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66,97 |
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Henrietta Hexagon and the Triangles: Fun Shape series
ISBN: 9781470101886 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As an infant, Henrietta Hexagon was left alone in a shape sorter with no one to care for her. She was found and adopted by a family of triangles. She loves her family more than anything but she can't seem to get past the feeling that she doesn't quite fit in. One warm spring morning, Henrietta goes outside searching for hexagons. She does manage to find one but in doing so, she finds herself in a very sticky situation. She heads back home feeling down and defeated but when she arrives, everything changes This sweet story about adoption and family relationships also subtly teaches a valuable...
As an infant, Henrietta Hexagon was left alone in a shape sorter with no one to care for her. She was found and adopted by a family of triangles. She ...
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44,23 |
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God Knew -- A Baby's Journey Home
ISBN: 9780984672493 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspirational for prospective adoptive families, adopted children, foster families, and others who have loved and anticipated the arrivals of adoptees joining the families of friends and relatives alike, this resource's intricate, heartfelt details will delight young and old readers.
Inspirational for prospective adoptive families, adopted children, foster families, and others who have loved and anticipated the arrivals of adoptees...
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63,07 |
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The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
ISBN: 9781586489427 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Jessie Hawkins' adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn't, at first, know what to think. She'd wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like she'd done something wrong. Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of reproductive rights, pitched as a "win-win" compromise in the never-ending abortion debate. But as Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has lately become even more entangled in the conservative Christian agenda....
When Jessie Hawkins' adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn't, at first, know what to think. She'd wanted her ado...
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150,29 |
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The Right Choices?
ISBN: 9781460981412 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author is: an adoptee, an adoptive mother, a biological mother, a birth grandmother and a grandmother of 7 grandchildren. She was conceived as a result of rape. This novel begins with the first of many choices that are demanded when an unexpected pregnancy begins. The choices available in 1953 were not those of the 1970s, nor in 2001. Choices have been shaped by cultural expectations. Choices made echo thorugh each proceeding day, month, year and decade. The child, the mother, siblings, partners, adoptive parents, and grandparents are all impacted by each choice made.
The author is: an adoptee, an adoptive mother, a biological mother, a birth grandmother and a grandmother of 7 grandchildren. She was conceived as a r...
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48,55 |
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Adopting Ainsley: There's No Place for a Car Seat on a Motorcycle
ISBN: 9780578091099 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story about how Ainsley came into our lives. How two middle-aged professionals managed to adopt a child without leaving our shores. You see, Ainsley is not from China, Ethiopia or Russia. She is a domestic product, manufactured right here in the United States. Finding her was no easy feat. In the pages that follow I hope to provide a feel for the travel, travails, and twerps one encounters upon entering the world of private adoption. This is not a tale for the faint of heart, the politically correct, or misers. Suffice it to say we had our ups, downs, and wrote a lot of checks....
This is the story about how Ainsley came into our lives. How two middle-aged professionals managed to adopt a child without leaving our shores. You se...
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60,65 |
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One Kid at a Time
ISBN: 9781937777012 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This true, heartwarming story reveals that miracles occur in everyday life. Enjoyable and uplifting, "One Kid at a Time" will empower--and encourage--everyone who reads it. Danny had no chance. His mother abandoned him. His father in prison didn't know him. His grandmother beat him so badly that the doctors couldn't count the bruises. He lived nonstop days of unending anxiety, loneliness and terror. Ordered into foster care, the system isolated, drugged and betrayed him. Jake lived the good life. Warm friendships, plenty of money and freedom to do what he enjoyed. From... This true, heartwarming story reveals that miracles occur in everyday life. Enjoyable and uplifting, "One Kid at a Time" will empower--and encoura... |
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An-Ya and Her Diary
ISBN: 9781468187274 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when all that is familiar disappears...when everything you see, taste, smell, feel, hear....is suddenly gone and lost to the other side of the world? Enter the world of An-Ya and Her Diary... 'An-Ya and Her Diary' chronicles the journey of an 11 year old adoptee from China. Written in diary format, young An-Ya reveals her emotional journey as she is catapulted from a Chinese orphanage into a middle class home in America. The diary, into which she journals, was the only item left with An-Ya when she was found as an infant. For 11 years An-Ya has left the diary blank as she...
What happens when all that is familiar disappears...when everything you see, taste, smell, feel, hear....is suddenly gone and lost to the other side o...
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40,43 |
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The Adventures of Baylard Bear
ISBN: 9781470047474 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baylard Bear knows what it's like to be different. When just a few weeks old, he was wrapped in a blanket of moss and left on the steps of a human orphanage by his bear parents because they realized they weren't going to be able to give him the life he deserved. They made the hardest - and most unselfish - decision any loving parent can ... they gave their beloved baby boy up for adoption. Follow Baylard as he comes to terms with his unique skills and setbacks, eventually gets adopted and ventures out into the big wide world
Baylard Bear knows what it's like to be different. When just a few weeks old, he was wrapped in a blanket of moss and left on the steps of a human orp...
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"Jimmy" From foster homes and Addiction to Recovery: Foster homes, addiction, abuse, recovery
ISBN: 9781463724078 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Jimmy" From stepchild and addiction to recovery. This is my story, an average kid growing up in an abusive world of foster homes, going through addiction, homelessness, jails and prison, having a rough time dealing with life itself and a heartbreaking divorce. I'm not anything special, I just want to let kids and people of all ages, to be able to relate and know that they're more of us with the same story out there. I'm writing this book, not because I have been told I should write my story, but for my own therapy, which is important to my recovery as an alcoholic and addict, as it can be...
"Jimmy" From stepchild and addiction to recovery. This is my story, an average kid growing up in an abusive world of foster homes, going through addic...
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Adopting Diego: A Boy's Journey
ISBN: 9781469195889 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "ADOPTING DIEGO: A BOY'S JOURNEY" is an international adoption story. The Collins' family adopted Diego who was fi ve years old from an orphanage in Guatemala and brought him back to Michigan to start his new life in his "forever family." His adoptive parents already had grown children and grandchildren. So, this is also the story of becoming parents again at a later age. The book covers the highlights of Diego's experiences and his adaption to his new family and culture. It is a simple children's picture book that can be read by a child or to a child by a parent, grandparent, teacher, or...
"ADOPTING DIEGO: A BOY'S JOURNEY" is an international adoption story. The Collins' family adopted Diego who was fi ve years old from an orphanage in G...
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88,98 |
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One of Eleven: Based on the life of Gary Kopperud
ISBN: 9781469968926 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of respect for the only parents Gary had known, he waited until both of them had passed away to call the orphanage in pursuit of medical history on his biological parents. He was shocked to discover that a brother was searching for him. A life-altering phone call revealed that not only did he have a brother, but that he had ten siblings Why was he, the only ONE OF ELEVEN children, put up for adoption? World War II had many casualties. The woman who gave birth to him was one of them. At age 58, he would discover that the highway he and his 16-year-old buddies were gazing down the night...
Out of respect for the only parents Gary had known, he waited until both of them had passed away to call the orphanage in pursuit of medical history o...
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60,69 |
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You've Come a Long Way Baby: A China Adoption Story
ISBN: 9781469972787 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scott Starkey and his wife Jennifer were determined after marrying that their household should never grow beyond the two of them - and however many dogs and cats occupied the premises at the time - when, in 2004, a chance encounter with a television program called "China's Lost Girls" set in motion a series of events that eventually led them to China and a thirteen month old little girl - their precious daughter Hope - in August, 2010. "You've Come a Long Way, Baby: A China Adoption Story" is a poignant, heartfelt, and frequently humorous chronicle of one couple's emotional adoption journey,...
Scott Starkey and his wife Jennifer were determined after marrying that their household should never grow beyond the two of them - and however many do...
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32,33 |
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Our Furry Son
ISBN: 9781475137774 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Furry Son is a short story about Lio, a little kitten lost in the city, who is taken to an animal shelter, where there are only two alternatives: adoption or death. Just when he was losing hope, he is adopted by a woman and her husband who become his saving angels. The kitten has a special charisma, and some mysterious behaviors. He shows his gratitude by a profound love, so much so, that his parents cannot help but feel moved. They share emotions and experiences that make them a real family. The parents learn to understand his language and how to take care of him. Lio becomes the child...
Our Furry Son is a short story about Lio, a little kitten lost in the city, who is taken to an animal shelter, where there are only two alternatives: ...
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28,29 |
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Chosen By Love
ISBN: 9781622302994 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adoption is both a gift and a blessing, but it can also come with difficulties. In Chosen By Love, young Chloe experiences ridicule from other kids because she is adopted. Seizing the opportunity, Chloe's mom shares a secret with her that helps Chloe see just how special adoption is and how it points to an even bigger blessing TOM JASKI is an attorney and a pastor of Grace Community of Topsail in Hampstead, NC. Chosen By Love is his first book, birthed through his family's journey through adoption (twice) as well as his own adoption experience. The adoption journey also inspired Tom's wife,...
Adoption is both a gift and a blessing, but it can also come with difficulties. In Chosen By Love, young Chloe experiences ridicule from other kids be...
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One Child at a Time: The Mission of a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
ISBN: 9780991355075 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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With One Heart: A guide to building relationships between Birth and Adoptive Mothers in open adoption
ISBN: 9781463538996 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Kristen A. Morton has entwined her experience as a birth mother with her love of writing. In the book "With One Heart," she brings to life each emotional layer of the hearts and minds that are affected by open adoption. This booklet highlights the strong, ever-lasting, relationships that can develop from adoption. It is possible for adoptive mothers and birth mothers to share a happy and healthy relationship with time and trust. Morton brings you eight chapters revealing, brick by brick, how to build a beautiful relationship together.
Author Kristen A. Morton has entwined her experience as a birth mother with her love of writing. In the book "With One Heart," she brings to life each...
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24,23 |