Preparing for Adoption
Everything Adopting Parents Need to Know About Preparations, Introductions and the First Few Weeks
by Julia Davis
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Pub Date 21 Oct 2014 | Archive Date 21 Nov 2014
Description
When you decide to adopt a child, you might assume that all the important work begins when the child comes to live with you. In fact the preparation stage before is crucial in ensuring that the adopted child will arrive to a safe and secure family. Preparing for Adoption provides clear advice on how to prepare for you adoptive child and create a strong foundation for a healthy and loving relationship. Julia Davis explains how many different factors can shape preparations for adoption, such as finding out about your child's history and using this information to establish a family environment which will meet your child's specific attachment needs. There is also advice on how to prepare your home to create a sense of safety for your child and how to prepare your family to support you as adoptive parents.
Primarily for adopters, foster carers and professionals supporting adopters, this book offers ideas and strategies to help parents prepare a happy and settled home for children before their arrival and ways to parent them in the early days of becoming a family that addresses their attachment needs.
Advance Praise
Julia Davis' book fills a big gap - supporting professionals, families and particularly children through the transition from foster care into an adoptive placement. She leads all those involved carefully and with real thought through the process with particular focus on what this transition means and may feel like for the child.
The book contains plenty of practical suggestions around preparing children for a move into an adoptive family and helping them to settle and bond once they are there. She doesn't gloss over the challenges that this momentous time can present, but guides everyone involved, with compassion and sensitivity. She also includes information on the special considerations required when siblings are transitioning, which isn't always covered in other texts.
I strongly recommend this book for anyone involved in a child's transition from foster care into an adoptive family. I wish it had been around when our family was starting out.
- Sally Donovan, adoptive mother and author of No Matter What and The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781849054560 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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Featured Reviews
Scott V, Librarian
For anyone who has been approved or is already in the matching process this should be on your must read list. Practical, readable, wonderful: Davis has written an excellent book, indeed it’s one of the best books on any aspect of adoption I’ve read. It’s succinct and too the point without ever watering down its key messages. Ideal reading for prospective adopters and adoption team social workers alike. Highly recommended.
